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the  ensuing  year :  President,  Simeon  T.  Ringel  j  Vice-president,  J.  A.  Armstrong, 
M.  D.j  Secretary,  Albert  P.  Brown;  Treasurer,  L.  M.  Pratt;  Librarian,  O.  G. 
Taylor;  Library  Committee,  S.  W.  Cochran,  A.  P.  Brown,  F.  G.  Thoman. 
The  St.  Clair  Pharmaceutical  Association  of  Southern  Illinois  held 
its  genera]  meeting  December  8th.  Mr.  H.  Steingoetter  presiding.  After  the  min- 
utes of  the  previous  meeting,  and  the  reports  of  committees  and  officers  had  been 
read,  it  was,  upon  motion  of  Mr.  A.  G.  F.  Streit,  resolved  to  adopt,  for  the  present, 
the  code  of  ethics  as  published  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  American  Parmaceutical 
Association  for  1852. 
The  following  gentlemen  were  duly  elected  officers  for  1875  •  President,  Mr.  H 
Steingoetter;  Vice-president,  Mr.  Wm.  Feickert ;  Secretary,  Mr.  A.  G.  F.  Streit; 
Treasurer,  Mr.  A.  Rudolph. 
Mr.  A.  G.  F.  Streit  reported  that  a  pharmacy  law  was  introduced  in  the  Legis- 
lature, which  the  Chicago  College  of  Pharmacy  is  now  trying  to  amend,  and  sug- 
gested that  the  united  action  of  the  two  pharmaceutical  bodies  in  the  State,  in  this 
matter,  would  exercise  a  beneficent  influence,  and,  to  a  great  extent,  secure  the  pass- 
age of  a  good  pharmacy  law  for  Illinois.  For  this  purpose  a  Committee  on  Phar- 
maceutical Legislation  was  subsequently  appointed,  consisting  of  Messrs.  N.  T. 
Baker,  Wm.  Feickert,  A.  Rudolph  and  A.  G.  F.  Streit. 
Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Paris. — M.  Regnauld  presided  at  the  meeting 
held  November  4th. 
M.  Husson,  of  Toul,  sent  a  note  relative  to  the  decomposition  of  iodide  of  potas- 
sium by  sunlight.  He  proposes  to  add  to  the  starch  paper  a  little  albumen,  which, 
in  case  of  decomposition  by  sunlight,  will  absorb  the  iodine,  and  allow  also  to  dis- 
tinguish the  action  of  ozone. 
A  note  by  M.  Vidau  was  read,  concerning  the  vermifuge  properties  of  oil  of 
eucalyptus.  A  zouave  had  been  troubled  for  a  long  time  with  a  large  number  of 
Oxyuris  vermicularis,  for  which  calomel,  kusso,  Corsican  moss  and  other  remedies 
had  been  tried  in  vain  ;  he  was  cured  in  nine  days  by  using  in  the  evening  a  quart 
of  an  injection,  containing  from  50  to  60  drops  of  the  oil. 
A  paper,  by  M.  Mayet,  Jr.,  on  the  fermentation  of  currant  juice,  wa^  read,  and 
selected  for  publication,  M.  Martin  stated  that  currants  collected  before  they  are 
entirely  ripe,  yield  a  juice  which  is  readily  clarified,  and' keeps  well. 
M.  J.  H.  Marais  presented  a  specimen  of  false  opoponax,  which  was  entirely 
composed  of  myrrh,  and  read  a  note,  stating  that  this  gum  resin  is  at  present  in 
Paris  only  employed  in  perfumery.  The  demand  being  limited,  and  the  commercial 
supply  exhausted,  fraudulent  articles  were  substituted.  True  opoponax  burns  with 
a  non-sooty  flame,  and  gives  off  a  strong  odor  of  celery  root,  while  the  false  article 
has  the  odor  of  the  gum  resin  or  resins  from  which  it  has  been  made.  Under  the 
influence  of  nitric  acid  vapors,  myrrh  acquires  a  fine  rose  color,  while  the  color  of 
opoponax  is  not  altered. 
A  new  acid,  dioxymaleic  acid,  was  described  by  M.  Bourgoin,  and  a  new  modi- 
fication of  a  dropping  glass  by  M.  Guichard.    The  latter  member  also  gave  his 
