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acid,  the  production  of  pectin  takes  place  in  two  or  three  hours.  It  becomes  en- 
tirely soluble,  and  alcohol  precipitates  pectin,  not  arabin,  from  the  solution 
Alkalies  change  it  into  pectates  and  metapectates.  Hence  gum  tragacanth  consists 
for  the  most  part  of  a  pectic  principle  insoluble  in  water,  apparently  identical  with 
Fremy's  pectose.  From  it,  by  precipitating  the  pectin  solution  by  barium  hydrate, 
and  decomposing  by  an  acid,  pure  pectin  acid  was  obtained.  Upon  analysis,  gum 
tragacanth  yields  as  follows;  Water,  20  per  cent.  ;  pectic  compounds,  60  per  cent,  j 
soluble  gum,  8  to  10  per  cent.  5  cellulose,  3  per  cent,  j  starch,  2  to  3  per  cent,  j 
mineral  matter,  3  per  cent,  j  nitrogenous  matters,  traces. — Ain.  Jour.  Sci.  and  Arts,, 
from  Moniteur  Scientifique^  III,  v,  361,  April,  1875  — 
PHARMACEUTICAL  COLLEGES  AND  ASSOCIATIONS, 
College  Of  Pharmacy  of  the  City  of  New  York. — A  special  meeting  of 
the  members  of  the  College  was  called  for  Monday,  June  7th,  at  the  college- rooms, 
to  elect  a  Board  of  Pharmacy  for  the  city  and  county  of  New  York  to  serve  for 
the  ensuing  three  years,  the  term  of  the  old  Board  expiring  on  that  day.  Mr.  Paul 
Balluff  and  Wm.  Neergaard,  M.  D.,  having  declined  a  renomination,  the  following 
were  elected  as  members  of  the  new  Board  :  Walter  De  F.  Day,  M.  D.,  Benjamin 
E.  Hays,  M.  D.,  William  Balser,  M.  D.,  Theobald  Frohwein,  Gustavus  Rams- 
perger.   
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, — To  increase  the  facilities  for  instruc- 
tion, an  oxyhydrogen  stereopticon  has  been  made  for  the  college  by  the  well-known 
optician,  Joseph  Zentmayer,  of  this  city,  and  it  is  intended  to  use  this  instrument 
hereafter  freely  in  illustrating  the  lectures. 
The  National  College  of  Pharmacy  at  Washington,  D.  C,  impressed 
with  the  serious  disadvantages  arising  fron>  the  notorious  multiplicity  and  want  of 
uniformity  of  certain  unofficinal  medicinal  preparations  in  general  use  in  the  Dis. 
trict  of  Columbia,  and  believing  that  the  employment  of  Materia  Medica  of  uncer- 
tain kind  and  quality  is  unworthy  of  professional  sanction,  have  invited  the  Medical 
Society  of  the  District  of  Columbia  to  unite  with  them  in  an  earnest  effort  to  remedy 
this  evil.  The  invitation  was  courteously  accepted,  and  a  joint  committee  from 
the  two  bodies  instructed  to  prepare  and  submit  a  series  of  reliable  formulae  for  such 
of  these  preparations  as  may  be  deemed  of  sufficient  importance. 
The  Committee — consisting  of  Doctors  James  W.  H.  Lovejoy,  J  E.  Morgan, 
J.  C.  Reily,  C.  H.  A.  Kleinschmidt  and  Chas.  W.  Franzoni  on  the  part  of  the 
Medical  Society,  and  Mrssrs.  Chas.  Becker,  F.  8.  Gaither,  W.  S.  Thompson,  W. 
G.  Duckett  and  Oscar  Oldberg  from  the  College — after  determining  upon  a  general 
plan,  and  a  comprehensive  schedule  of  preparations,  which,  it  is  believed,  should  be 
embraced  in  the  forthcoming  formulary,  agreed  to  entrust  the  pharmaceutical  part 
of  the  work  to  the  gentlemen  representing  the  College  of  Pharmacy. 
Cincinnati  College  of  Pharmacy. — From  the  nominations  made  by  this 
