Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  1 
Nov.  1875.  J 
Meeting  of  the  College. 
with  oxygen  was  tried  there  last  year  for  a  short  time  in  some  coffee- 
houses and  in  the  Passage  St.  Hubert,  and  given  up  on  account  of  the 
above-mentioned  disadvantages.*  In  Vienna,  in  April,  1874,  the 
Westbahnhof  was  still  lighted  up  with  oxygen  ;  but  the  system  had 
made  no  further  progress  in  that  city,  and  the  bluish  moon-like  light,  in 
spite  of  its  intensity  and  beauty,  as  represented  above,  was  regarded  as 
unsatisfactory. f  The  jury  of  the  Vienna  Exhibition  examined  the 
oxygen  illumination  at  the  Westbahnhof  (Western  Railway  Ter- 
minus). In  the  Exhibition  itself  the  manufacture  of  oxygen  was  not 
represented. 
Should  further  experience  confirm  these  decisions,  the  manufacture 
of  oxygen  would  be  deprived  of  its  present  foundations.  For  it  has 
been  undertaken  solely  in  the  hope  of  the  application  of  the  oxygen  ta 
lighting  purposes. 
Many  of  the  above-mentioned  disadvantages,  and  especially  the  cost 
of  the  mains,  are  evaded  in  the  arrangement  which  PhillipsJ  proposes 
for  oxygen  illumination.  This  depends  on  lamps  (manufactured  by 
Berghausen,  of  Cologne),  fed  from  an  oil- cistern  with  very  heavy  tar- 
oil,  rich  in  naphthalin,  whilst  oxygen  is  introduced  into  the  centre  of 
the  wick.  Whether  great  cities  will  be  induced  to  give  up  the  advan- 
tages of  gas-lighting  in  favor  of  this  arrangement,  and  whether  it  is 
practicable  on  the  large  scale,  must  be  considered  very  doubtful. 
(To  be  continued.) 
MINUTES  OF  THE  COLLEGE. 
The  semi-annual  nneeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  was  held  on 
the  afternoon  of  September  27th,  1875,  at  the  hall  of  the  College.  Dillwyn 
Parrish,  President,  in  the  chair  ;  twenty-live  members  were  in  attendance. 
The  Minutes  of  the  Meeting  held  in  June  last,  were  read  and  adopted. 
The  Minutes  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  were  also  read  by  the  Secretary  of  the 
Board,  and  on  motion  adopted. 
The  Committee  on  the  Centennial  reported  progress,  and  was  continued. 
The  Delegates  appointed  to  attend  the  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  held  at  Boston,  reported  through  James  T.  Shinn,  that  they  had  at- 
Letters  from  M.  Melsons,  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  Brussels,  to  Professor^^A. 
W.  Hofmann,  April  14th,  1874. 
f  Verbal  communications  from  H.  Hlasiwetz,  Professor  of  Chemistry  at  the  Poly, 
technicum  in  Vienna. 
X  Phillips,     Der  Sauerstoff,"  Berlin,  1871,  p.  46. 
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