Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
July,  1880. 
Minutes  of  the  College. 
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Araroba  ;  Goa  Powder. — According  to  Holmes  ("  La  Presse  Medicale  Beige") 
fie  araroba  comes  from  a  plant  of  the  family  Casalpinacea-^  according  to  Aguilar,  on, 
the  other  hand,  the  plant  is  a  Leguminous  of  the  genus  Andira^  having  considerable 
analogy  to  Andira  inermis,  which  furnishes  the  bark  formerly  employed  as  a  vermi- 
fuge. This  not  yet  having  been  studied,  Aguilar  gives  it  the  name  Andira  araroba. 
The  Andira  araroba  is  met  with  wild  in  the  southern  part  of  the  province  of  Bahia. 
The  araroba  powder  must  be  tiie  product  of  oxidation  of  a  resin  existing  in  large 
■quantities  in  the  wood  of  the  tree.  Insects  boring  holes  in  the  wood  favor  the 
■entrance  of  air  and  the  consequent  oxidation  of  the  resin. — Med.  Press  and  Circular^ 
■from  Cincinnati  Lancet  and  Clinicy  May  22,  1880. 
Remedies  for  Sea  Sickness. — Cory,  lately  surgeon  on  a  passenger  steamer, 
recommends  in  mal  de  mer  a  combination  of  small  doses  of  bromide  of  potassium 
snd  hydrate  of  chloral  taken  with  the  citrate  of  magnesium  during  effervescence. 
Spirits  of  sulphuric  ether  may  be  added  when  there  is  much  depression. — Lancet^ 
March  20,  i88o,  from  St.  Louis  Courier  of  Med..,  May,  t88o. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  COLLEGE. 
Philadelphia,  June  28th,  1880. 
A  stated  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  was  held  this  day  at 
the  Hall,  No.  145  Noi'th  Tenth  street.  Dillwyn  Parrish,  President,  in  the  chair; 
thirteen  members  present. 
The  minutes  of  the  last  stated  meeting  were  read,  and,  on  motion,  approved. 
The  minutes  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  April,  May  and  June  were  read  by 
Thomas  S.  Wiegand,  and,  on  motion,  adopted. 
These  minutes  make  mention  of  the  appointment  of  a  committee  of  the  Board  in 
May  to  purchase  the  houses  in  the  rear  of  the  College  adjoining,  on  Elwyn  street, 
which  committee  reported  at  the  meeting  of  the  Board  in  June  that  they  had  suc- 
■ceeded  in  obtaining  the  property  within  the  limit  authorized  by  the  Board. 
These  minutes  further  contain  the  following  communication  : 
"Philadelphia,  April  6th,  1880. 
"With  a  view  of  stimulating  the  use  of  the  microscope  in  Pharmacy  and  the  more 
thorough  investigation  of  vegetable  drugs  of  American  origin,  the  undersigned 
respectfully  submits  to  the  Board  of  Trustees,  for  approval  and  for  publication  in 
the  forthcoming  announcement,  the  offer  of  a  prize,  at  the  expense  of  the  under- 
signed, to  the  class  of  1880-81,  said  prize  to  consist  of  a  Zentmayer  microscope, 
American  histological  stand,  with  rack  and  pinion,  two  eye-pieces  and  two  objec- 
tives, in  walnut  case,  and  to  be  awarded 
ist.  "For  the  best  meritorious  thesis  describing  the  structure  of  two  or  more 
•closely  related  American  Drugs  of  vegetable  origin,  and  accompanied  by  original 
drawings  and  by  specimens;  or, 
2d.  " For  the  best  meritorious  thesis  describing  the  structure  and  the  proximate 
constituents  of  an  American  drug  of  vegetable  origin,  and  accompanied  by  speci- 
tmens  and  original  drawings;  or,  if  no  thesis  should  be  deemed  of  sufficient  merit, 
