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Notes  and  News. 
/Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\      March,  1901. 
manufacture,  which  is  used  extensively  for  determining  the  percent- 
age of  alcohol  in  wines  and  liquors.  He  said  that  concordant  results 
could  be  obtained  with  it,  and  in  this  respect  was  more  satisfactory 
than  some  of  the  other  methods  which  are  used.  In  order  to  show 
the  comparative  accuracy  of  the  method, he  gave  the  following  data: 
In  one  case  an  alcohol  which  had  a  specific  gravity  of  -9867  as 
determinedly  Squibb's  specific  gravity  bottle,  this  being  equivalent 
to  1008  per  cent,  by  volume,  gave  a  percentage  of  97  per  cent,  by 
volume  withjthe  ebulliscope,  a  difference  of  -38  per  cent.  A  second 
samplexontained  19-34  per  cent,  by  volume  according  to  the  Squibb 
apparatus,  and  with  the  ebulliscope,  19  7  per  cent,  by  volume,  these 
figures'representing  extremes  of  variation. 
Mr.  Procter,  having  tried  the  use  of  paraffin  for  denarcotizing 
opium  as  suggested  by  Gordon  (Amer.  Jour.  Pharm.,  1900,  p.  576), 
exhibited  a  specimen  of  the  residual  paraffin  which  was  considerably 
colored.  The  resulting  tincture  was  re-paraffined,  but  the  second 
product  was  similar  in  appearance  to  the  first. 
A  vote^of  thanks  was  tendered  the  authors  of  the  papers  for  their 
presentation. 
At|the  next  meeting,  on  Tuesday,  March  19,  Prof.  Virgil  Coblentz, 
of  the  College  of  Pharmacy  of  the  City  of  New  York,  will  give  a 
lecture  on  "  Recent  Developments  in  the  Study  of  the  Relationship 
between  Chemical  Constitution  and  Physiological  Action  of  Organic 
Compounds."  Florence  Yaple, 
Secretary  pro  tern. 
NOTES  AND  NEWS. 
Commercial  Pharmacy  will  receive  attention  at  the  hands  of  a  number  of 
competent  lecturers  at  the  University  of  Michigan  on  each  Wednesday,  from 
February  13th  to  May  29th,  inclusive. 
IvEHN  and  Fink,  whose  establishment  in  New  York  City  was  burned  out 
recently,  are  temporarily  located  at  77-79  Beekman  Street,  and  expect  to 
occupy  their  new  building  at  120  William  Street  by  March  1st. 
A  new  Research  Laboratory. — The  twentieth  century  will  no  doubt 
be  a  century  of  progress  in  applied  science,  and  one  of  the  developments 
will  be  the  research  laboratory,  where  investigators  will  carry  on  researches 
which  have  practical  objects  in  view.  Parke,  Davis  &  Co.  intend  to  build 
an  elaborate  science  laboratory  which  will  be  devoted  exclusively  to  research 
work  in  chemical  and  biological  directions. 
