Allow it to stand twenty-four hours, and filter through talcum before using in the elixir of pepsin.

After the finished preparation is filtered, it should be tested by adding a fluidrachm to two pints of fresh milk, previously warmed to 100° F., and stirring only sufficiently to mix them. In fifteen minutes or so a firm curd should be formed. If it fails the rennet is at fault and is not strong enough for the purpose.

An elixir made in this way will keep and will not develop a disagreeable odor.-JOHN H. HAYDEN, in the American Druggist.

Compound tincture of cudbear.

Tincture of vanilla......

Water.......

I ounce.

......enough to make 16 ounces.

There is about one part of bromide in each four parts of the mixture.

Tincture of cantharides.

Ammonium carbonate.. Borax......

2 fluid ounces.

4 fluidrachms.

4 drachms.

I ounce.

Glycerin......

Deodorized alcohol.......

Detannated muscatel wine (domes-
tic)...........sufficient to make 4 pints.

Mix the water and glycerin, add the pepsin and rennet, and allow them to stand for three or four hours, until they are apparently dissolved. Then add the deodorized alcohol and sufficient wine to make four pints. Mix with one ounce of talcum and allow to stand a week and filter.

If a good grade of domestic muscatel wine, detannated with hydrated oxide of iron, be used, this preparation will be found very satisfactory. Sherry or sweet catawba wine can be used, but thirty minims of oil of orange should be added to improve the flavor.

If it is not necessary or desirable to have a very lightcolored preparation, the wine need not be detannated, but most of the color and tannin can be removed by mixing two fluidrachms of tincture of iron chloride with three pints of wine and adding one fluidounce of fresh milk.

Heat the tar and oil to 60° C., dissolve the potassa in the water, add the alcohol and gradually add to the oil and tar mixture, constantly stirring. Continue the heat until thoroughly saponified, and make up to a pint with water Perfume to suit.

THE EVENT OF THE YEAR.

(Continued from page 419.)

GENERAL NOTES.

President Anderson, Secretary Wooten, and Mr. Holliday, all of the N. A. R. D., were present at St. Louis, and the former two made speeches as delegates.

Two papers by Professor Lloyd were presented at the last general session, and were entitled, respectively, "The Versatility of Dr. Charles Rice," and "A Ginseng Garden."

From the report of J. A. Koch, secretary of the section on education and legislation, it appears that there

are 85,849 registered pharmacists, and 7979 assistant pharmacists, in the United States. Quite an army!

The "Conference of American Pharmaceutical Faculties," and the similar body of members of boards of pharmacy, each had several sessions; what they did is mentioned in the department of "THE MONTH" on other pages.

In making a response when installed in the presidential chair, Dr. Whelpley got off a pretty good one. He apologized for the character of his speech (which needed no apology, however), saying that he had been very busy, and had not found time to prepare an elaborate extemporaneous speech.

Delegates were present from 14 colleges of pharmacy (including the Ontario School in Toronto), 27 State associations, 4 local associations, 2 alumni bodies, and the N. A. R. D. The N. W. D. A. and P. A. of A. were not represented, doubtless because the matters in which these bodies are concerned are now handled, not by the A. Ph. A., but by the N. A. R. D.

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Dr. Payne, as chairman of the special committee which has had in charge for a number of years the question of the status of pharmacists in the government service, reported that the efforts of the past year had been largely confined to the marine hospital service, and that, while nothing definite had been accomplished, a sentiment had been developed which he felt sure would result in good later on.

Secretary Caspari's report showed that the physicians' epitome of the N. F., published a year ago or so by the A. Ph. A., had not, though brought to the attention of the different State associations at this year's meetings, been called for to any extent. The secretary thought

this looked as though pharmacists were not as eager as they might be to cooperate with physicians and secure their support.

The committee on national legislation was made permanent; it will be composed of three members; and all matters relating to pharmacy which are dependent upon congressional action for their successful achievement will be committed into its charge. The part which the committee played in the repeal of the stamp tax proved the need for its permanent existence.

The committee on prizes reported that Mr. Hynson was really entitled to the first general prize of $50 for his report of last year as chairman of the then Committee (instead of Section) on Practical Pharmacy and Dispensing. Inasmuch as the prize could not be awarded

for a committee report, however, the committee on prizes recommended that Mr. Hynson be given an honorarium of $50. The second general prize of $30 was awarded to A. B. Stevens for his paper on "Wild Cherry Bark and its Preparations;" and the third of $20 to Louis Emanuel for his paper on "A Scheme to Popularize the U. S. P." The Hager memorial prize was awarded Chas. A. Walter for his paper on "Proximate Analysis of Eupatorium Perfoliatum." The Ebert prize was not awarded; no paper was considered to have fulfilled its requirements.

THE SCRAP BOOK.

"POPULAR GERMAN NAMEs of Domestic Drugs and MEDICINES."-The BULLETIN has received a copy of the third edition of this handsome book from the publishers, the Pharmaceutical Review Publishing Co., of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It has been revised and enlarged, and will prove of great practical value to druggists who deal at all with a German population. The book is paper bound, and contains 46 pages.

CALLER (time, 2 A.M.): Here's an order from my wife wanting some face powder. Sorry for knocking you up, but daren't go home without it.

Druggist: Be off! I haven't enough of the darned stuff in stock to cover her cheek.

THE September number of The Criterion, published in New York, contains the sketch called "The Mother of Sam Hill's Wife's Sister," written by Professor Lloyd and first read before the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Put-in-Bay meeting two years ago.

VOL. XV.

No. II.

THE

WHAT DID THE BUFFALO CONVENTION ACCOMPLISH FOR THE N. A. R. D.?

Months of eager expectation and ripe resolve, weeks of correspondence, discussion, deliberation, three days of feverish debate, stormy divisions of sentiment, sessions of unparalleled interest, formal addresses and extemporaneous speeches of extraordinary power and grasp, a remarkable personnel arraying on the floor the brains, the character, and the enthusiasm of the retail drug trade-such were the elements which imparted to the Buffalo convention a dramatic aspect which will make it forever memorable in the annals of American pharmacy. The issues were worthy of the occasion. The destiny of the N. A. R. D. lay in the hands of the two hundred resolute men who gathered in Convention Hall on that fateful Thursday. The stake was big. The stake was big. And the game was played with strategy, with fire, with tenacity of purpose, with fairness, and, above all, with good humor and ultimate compromise.

"Shall we adopt the Price-Restrictive Plan? Shall we graft it on the trunk of the Tripartite Plan?

shall we abandon the latter altogether as a demonstrated proprietor the sole and responsible guarantor of full prices -which shall impose on him the duty of shutting off the cutter's supplies?" These were the all-important questions clustering round the principal issue of the convention. No time was lost in answering them. The ceremonial formalities of the opening session were dispensed with; the "experience and jubilation meeting," with its inventory of N. A. R. D. results during the past year, was cut out bodily; and President Anderson's powerful plea for Price-Protection was immediately followed up by Mr. Hopp's shrewd motion that it be made the special order for the following morning. That motion was carried with a rush and a hurrah. For a while it looked as though the Price-Protectionists would bear all before them. But their strength ebbed steadily away; and, in the light of that after-wisdom which follows the event, it is now clear that at no time during the convention could a muster of accredited votes have resulted in a victory for Price-Protection.

Was it that the majority favoring the retention of the present Tripartite policy opposed on conviction, or with personal hostility, the adoption of the Worcester or Price-Protective Plan? No. The majority was swayed by fear, by conservatism, by a disposition to hold fast to accomplished results-not by interested or personal motives. The majority is not yet satisfied that PriceProtection will run the gauntlet of the courts, that it is sound in law, that it will avoid clashing with antitrust legislation, or, finally, that the proprietors will adopt it. The majority said to the convention: "Be patient; wait; give us decisions upholding Price - Protection; give us convincing opinions from eminent counsel of national weight and fame. The decision of one State Supreme Court is not binding on forty-five States. On grounds of policy, expediency, and efficiency, Price - Protection appeals to us. But will it stand legal fire? Give us more light. For the present hold fast to the only plan, the only solid ground, we have gained during twenty