Am.  Tour.  Pharm.  \ 
February',  1901.  J 
PJiarmaceu  tic  a  I  Meeting. 
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Queen  &  Co.  The  paper  on  "  The  Use  of  X-Rays  in  Detecting 
the  Adulterations  in  Drugs"  appears  in  full  in  this  issue.  The 
others,  on  "  The  Production  of  Nitric  Acid  from  Atmospheric  Nitro- 
gen "  and  "  Commercial  Asafcetida,"  will  be  printed  in  the  March 
issue  of  this  Journal.  Those  commenting  upon  these  papers  were 
Professors  Remington  and  Lowe  and  the  Chairman. 
J.  Percy  Remington  presented  a  paper  on  "Improvements  in  the 
Remington  Pharmaceutical  Still,"  which  was  illustrated  by  means 
of  the  apparatus,  exhibited  both  in  sections  and  in  operation.  Mr. 
Wallace  Procter  said  that  he  had  used  this  still  lor  a  good  many 
years  and  that  the  improvements  in  clamps  for  securing  the  head 
of  the  still  and  the  attachment  for  holding  the  condenser  were 
desirable  features.  Mr.  E.  M.  Boring  said  that  he  had  used  the 
Prentis  still  for  the  making  of  aromatic  waters  and  found  the  appa- 
ratus to  fulfil  all  his  wants,  and  said  that  it  had  in  its  favor  the  fact 
that  no  clamps  whatsoever  were  used.  He  said  that  he  thought 
the  adaptation  of  the  boiler  idea  with  condenser,  as  in  the  Rem- 
ington still,  was  a  good  one. 
Among  the  pieces  of  apparatus  exhibited  was  "  The  Druggists' 
Label  Gummer,"  which  is  intended  to  do  away  with  the  old  method 
of  paste  and  brush  and  appears  to  be  particularly  adapted  where 
large  numbers  of  labels  are  used. 
Mr.  W.  L.  Cliffe  presented  to  the  College  two  mortars,  one 
which  he  obtained  while  on  a  recent  trip  to  Mexico,  which  was 
made  of  stone  of  volcanic  origin  and  used  in  the  grinding  up  of 
Chile  or  red  pepper,  which  is  largely  used  with  corn  meal  in  that 
country.  The  other  was  a  carved  wooden  mortar  cut  out  of  a  solid 
block  of  wood,  and  was  obtained  from  Arabia,  it  being  used  there  in 
the  grinding  of  coffee. 
Mr.  Wallace  Procter  exhibited  a  pair  of  saddle-bags  which  had 
been  used  during  the  Mexican  war  by  Mr.  Mordicai,  a  former 
Philadelphian,  an  engineer  in  the  U.  S.  Army.  The  bags  still  con- 
tained a  number  of  medicinal  preparations,  as  essence  of  pepper, 
mint,  ammonia  water,  morphine  sulphate,  calomel,  ipecac,  jalap, 
laudanum,  compound  cathartic  pills  and  iodide  of  potassium  pills. 
Among  the  papers  to  be  presented  at  the  next  meeting  on 
February  19th  are  the  following: 
(1)  "  Remarks  on  a  New  Cold  Cream  and  Other  Ointments."  By 
William  C.  Alpers,  Sc.D.,  New  York  City. 
