546  ,    Richmond  Meeting  of  N.  IV.D.  A.  j^S^g1- 
This  shows  that  powdered  is  much  more  rapidly  volatilized  than 
lump  camphor.  Official  camphor  liniment,  verified  by  a  polariscope 
examination,  was  subjected  in  an  uncorked  bottle  to  a  temperature 
of  400  C.  After  fourteen  days  the  strength  was  estimated  to  be 
19.75  Per  cent-  and  at  the  end  of  a  month  19.21  per  cent.  A  part 
of  the  preparation  exposed  to  ordinary  room  temperature  in  an 
uncorked  bottle  for  a  month  showed  a  loss  of  less  than  0.25  per 
cent.  Official  spirit  of  camphor,  the  strength  having  also  been 
verified  with  the  aid  of  the  polariscope,  showed  at  the  expiration 
of  fourteen  days  an  increase  of  camphor  content  from  10  Gm.  in 
100  c.c.  to  11.47  Gm.  in  100  c.c.  At  the  end  of  one  month  it  showed 
an  increase  to  12.04  Gm.  in  100  c.c. 
The  above  results,  the  author  states,  indicate  that,  while  camphor 
itself  is  rapidly  volatilized,  the  preparations  of  it  are  not  sufficiently 
altered  to  justify  a  manufacturer  resorting  to  such  a  defense. — 
N.  J.  Pharm,  Assoc. 
REPORT  OF  THE  RICHMOND  MEETING  OF  THE 
N.  W.  D.  A. 
By  Clarence  M.  Klixe. 
I  have  been  asked  to  present  at  this  meeting  a  brief  article  on 
the  annual  meeting  of  the  N.W.D.A.  which  was  held  recently  in 
Richmond. 
As  is  to  be  expected,  most  of  the  business  transacted  there  applies 
only  to  the  wholesale  drug  trade  and  would  not  be  of  interest  to  this 
gathering. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  "  Standards  and  Tests  "  pro- 
voked much  favorable  comment  and  proved  to  be  of  much  interest 
to  the  wholesale  association.  This  report  quoted  a  portion  of  the 
remarks  by  Prof.  Oldberg  delivered  at  the  recent  meeting  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  with  which  you  are  doubt- 
less familiar,  as  follows  :  "  It  is  remarkable  that  the  Congress  of 
the  United  States  should  have  made  a  legal  standard  of  the  National 
Formulary,  prepared,  owned,  and  published  by  an  association  which 
has  the  power  to  change  its  book  any  day,  or  to  reduce  its  scope, 
or  add  to  it,  or  suspend  its  publication  altogether.  It  was  a 
ridiculous  mistake  which  will,  of  course,  be  corrected  sooner  or 
later."  The  committee  commented  as  follows  :  "  It  is  the  opinion 
of  your   committee   that   in   voicing  the   above   Prof.  Oldberg 
