43  8  Twenty-third  Annual  Meeting  of  the  {^"'ba"''87?"'"' 
eties  throughout  North  America  be  invited  to  form  committees  with  the 
view  of  facilitating  the  objects  of  pharmacists  and  chemists  from  for- 
eign countries  who  may  desire  to  travel  upon  this  continent.  After  re- 
ferring to  the  stock  of  Proceedings  on  hand,  and  to  the  incidental  ex- 
penses during  the  past  year  a  brief  abstract  was  given  of  the  paper  on 
American  Pharmacy  and  its  relations  to  public  health,  which  the  Sec- 
retary had  been  invited  to  read  before  the  American  Public  Health  As- 
sociation at  its  meeting  held  in  November  1874.  (^S*^^  "  American 
Jour.  Pharm."  1875,  p.  43.") 
Mr.  R.  V.  Mattison  read  the  Report  of  the  Committee  on  Unofficinal 
Formulas.  The  report  containing  also  formulas  for  some  Elixirs,  the 
latter  were  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Formulas  for  elixirs,  and  the 
remainder  accepted  for  publication,  it  being  understood  that  these 
formulas  were  gathered  and  printed  for  convenience  of  reference 
merely,  without  being  endorsed  by  the  Association. 
The  Treasurer's  report,  which  was  now  read,  showed  receipts  dur- 
ing the  year  amounting  to  $5,690. 19,  including  the  balance  of  $918.22 
on  hand  at  the  previous  meeting ;  the  disbursements  amounted  to 
$4,516.08,  leaving  at  this  time  a  balance  of  $1,174.11  in  the  hands  of 
the  Treasurer.  An  Auditing  Committee  consisting  of  James  T. 
Shinn,  of  Philadelphia,  W.  J.  M.  Gordon,  of  Cincinnati  and  P.  E. 
Dupuy,  of  Richmond,  Va.,  was  appointed,  and,  at  a  subsequent  ses- 
sion, reported  the  accounts  of  the  Treasurer  correct. 
Dr.  A.  W.  Miller,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Adulterations 
and  Sophistications,  read  the  report  of  that  Committee,  which  exposed 
several  frauds  hitherto  not  reported  ;  among  them  may  be  mentioned 
the  facts  that  the  oils  of  cedar,  hemlock  and  spruce  are  largely  dis- 
tilled in  New  Jersey  with  variable  quantities  of  turpentine  ;  that  some 
German  houses  are  mixing  and  cheapening  the  more  prominent  essen- 
tial oils  ;  that  a  French  firm  in  Grasse  adulterates  the  cheaper  grades 
of  the  oils  of  lavender,  rosemary  and  thyme  with  about  75  per  cent, 
of  oil  of  turpentine  ;  that  French  oil  of  almond  is  almost  exclusively 
obtained  from  peach  kernels  ;  that  honey  is  often  manufactured  by 
dissolving  various  sugars  in  a  decoction  of  slippery  elm  bark,  or  a  so- 
lution of  gum  and  starch  ;  that  castor  oil  even  is  sometimes  made  of 
lard  and  croton  oils,  etc. 
The  Association  afterwards  paid  the  official  visit  to  the  exhibition- 
room  and  inspected  the  fine  display  of  drugs,  pharmaceutical  prepara- 
tions, chemicals,  apparatus,  perfumery,  druggists'  sundries,  and  collec- 
lections  of  scientific  and  general  interest. 
