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Pharmaceutical  Association. 
/  Am.  Jour.  Pharm, 
(     January,  1901. 
which  was  a  joint  paper  by  himself  and  Dr.  Pancoast.  (Seepage  i.) 
Mr.  England  referred  to  a  commercial  specimen  of  oil  of  sandal- 
wood, which  was  found  to  contain  90  parts  of  sandalwood  oil,  7 
parts  of  alcohol  and  3  parts  of  chloroform.  This  oil  had  the  same 
specific  gravity  as  the  U.S.P.  required,  and  also  answered  the  tests 
for  solubility.  Professor  Lowe  referred  to  the  fact  of  the  enormous 
quantity  of  cloves  which  is  distilled  in  this  country  and  also  to  the  fact 
that  one  large  manufacturing  house,  in  order  to  ensure  the  purity  of 
oil  of  sandalwood,  imports  the  sandalwood  for  distillation.  He  also 
referred  to  the  fact  of  oil  of  rose  being  adulterated  with  oil  of  gin- 
ger-grass, and  finally  stated  that  he  did  not  see  any  great  harm, 
therapeutically,  in  the  substitution  of  oil  of  birch  for  oil  of  winter- 
green,  as  the  oil  of  birch  contained  nearly  all  methyl  salicylate  and 
the  oil  of  wintergreen  90  per  cent.  Mr.  Kebler  further  remarked 
that  kerosene  is  often  used  to  adulterate  essential  oils,  the  low 
boiling  kerosene  being  employed  to  adulterate  the  oils  having  low 
boiling  points  and  the  high  fraction  kerosene  with  those  having  a 
high  boiling  point.  H.  K. 
AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
The  next  meeting  of  the  Association  will  be  held  at  St.  Louis, 
September  16-21,  190 1. 
The  Section  on  Practical  Pharmacy  and  Dispensing  announces  the 
following : 
Through  the  generosity  of  Dr.  Enno  Sander,  Ex-President  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  the  Practical  Pharmacy  and 
Dispensing  Section  is  enabled  to  offer  a  Cash  Prize  of  Fifty  Dollars 
for  the  most  worthy  paper  or  report  presented  to  it,  upon  the  follow- 
ing conditions:  (1)  All  competitors  must  be  members  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  and  actively  engaged  in  the 
retail  drug  business — principals  and  assistants  equally  acceptable 
— and  shall  not  be  connected  with  the  teaching  department  of  any 
school  or  college  of  pharmacy.  (2)  The  subject  discussed  or  re- 
ported upon  shall  be  within  the  scope  of  pharmaceutical  manipula- 
tions, dispensing  or  the  actual  doings  of  a  retail  drug  store. 
(3)  All  competing  papers  or  reports  must  be  in  the  hands  of 
the  Secretary  of  the  Section,  F.  W.  E.Stedem,  Corner  Broad  Street 
and  Fairmount  Avenue,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  on  or  before  July  I,  1901, 
and  must  be  marked  "For  competition." 
