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Tn  the  evening  a  banquet  was  given  to  the  members  of  the  New  Jersey  Pharma- 
ceutical Association  by  the  Camden  Association,  at  Rudolph's  Palace  of  Luxury, 
where  Mayor  Jones  and  several  members  and  guests  addressed  the  company.  Later 
in  the  evening  an  informal  reception  of  the  Association  was  given  at  Morgan's  Hall, 
where  most  of  the  prominent  citizens  of  Camden  assembled  to  witness  the  display 
of  drugs,  chemicals,  apparatus  and  pharmaceutical  preparations.  Music  was  dis- 
coursed by  the  Sixth  Regiment  Band,  and,  after  a  promenade  concert,  dancing  was 
indulged  in  by  those  so  inclined,  and  at  a  late  hour  the  assemblage  departed,  well 
pleased  with  the  results  of  this  meeting,  and  with  the  exhibition,  to  which  a  number 
of  the  members  and  several  of  the  most  prominent  firms  of  Philadelphia  and  New 
York  had  freely  contributed. 
Cincinnati  College  of  Pharmacy. —  At  the  monthly  meeting  of  the  College, 
held  Tuesday,  February  9th,  Professor  E.  S,  Wayne  exhibited  and  presented  to  the 
College  a  splendid  mass  of  crystals  of  caffein,  and  made  some  remarks  upon  a  new 
method  for  its  manufacture  from  tea  or  coffee  5  which  is,  to  boil  the  powdered  tea 
or  coffee  with  one  and  a  half  times  its  weight  of  finely- powdered  litharge  in  water. 
A  bright  and  almost  colorless  solution  is  thus  obtained,  which  contains  a  little  lead. 
Thi>  is  removed  by  passing  sulphhydric  acid  gas  through  the  solution,  and  filtering 
off  the  sulphide  of  lead.  On  evaporation  to  the  crystallizing  point  and  cooling,  the 
caffein  crystallizes  out  in  colorless  crystals.  The  mother  liquid  will  be  found  slightly 
yellow;  treated  with  animal  charcoal,  upon  evaporating,  it  yields  another  crop  of 
crystals  The  process  was  said  to  be  a  cheap  and  rapid  one  for  preparing  cafiein, 
and  to  yield  largely. 
He  also  exhibited  a  very  rich  and  rare  gold  ore  from  near  Boulder,  Col.  (from 
the  Grand  View  mine),  called  sylvanite  (a  telluride  of  gold  and  silver),  and  the 
results  of  its  assay,  consisting  of  tellurium  beautifully  crystallized  on  the  surface, 
and  the  gold  and  silver  5  some  specimens  assaying  as  high  as  .^29,000  to  the  ton. 
He  also  presented  to  the  College  some  fine  specimens  of  English  rhubarb  root, 
round  and  flat,  and  a  specimen  of  the  cardamom,  described  by  Pereira  as  the  hairy, 
round,  Chinese  cardamom.  They  are  about  half  an  inch  in  diameter,  almost  spher- 
ical, have  much  less  aromatic  taste  and  smell  than  the  officinal  sort ;  and,  as  pre- 
sented, were  deprived  of  their  capsules,  and  had  evidently  been  limed. 
Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain. — At  the  pharmaceutical  meeting 
held  February  3d,  the  President,  Mr.  F.  H.  Hills,  in  the  chair,  Mr.  Greenish  pre- 
sented a  number  of  treatises  describing  the  results  of  various  original  investigations 
carried  on  in  the  laboratory  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Institute  at  Dorpat,  under  the 
supervision  of  Prof.  Dragendorff,  such  investigations  being  undertaken  during  the 
second  year  of  attendance,  and  the  results  being  embodied  in  theses  presented  upon 
the  application  of  the  students  for  the  degree  of  "Magister"  of  Pharmacy.  He 
would  be  glad  to  see  the  highest  honors  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great 
Britain  become  the  reward  of  original  research  rather  than  the  result  of  an  examina- 
tion, and  he  hoped  that  at  some  future  time  there  would  exist  a  College  of  Phar- 
macy in  Great  Britain  which  would  grant  degrees  as  the  reward  of  original 
research. 
