Atlantic City. Phila. On returning to the depot we met the other sections of the party who were all elated at and spoke as having enjoyed themselves hugely. The party who were entertained at the Mansion House reported as follows: "They were escorted to the dining room which was handsomely trimmed with tropical plants and the tables ornamented with fresh cut flowers, seated sociably and good fellowship prevailed. Mr. Henry Wooten presided as toast master. The members of the common council of Atlantic City were there to welcome the guests. The following was the Menu. Oysters, Soup. Fish. Boiled. Absecon Salts on Half Shell. Atlantic City, seen even through the rain, is a pretty little place of about 10,000 inhabitants, with wide, well shaded streets, 30 or more first-class and many small though convenient Hotels, and thirteen miles of a beautiful beach. In this little place the Hotel proprietors are awake to the fact that the numerous excursionists render the privacy of their Hotel too public for long residence, and so have made arrangements with railroad and steamboat companies that excursionists are discharged at a distant point and there furnished with such accommodations without a desire to seek comforts elseand food as may tempt them to remain, where. Here I think it appropriate to say a few words in reference to the improved sewerage and sanitary condition of Atlantic City. By the commendable exertions of Dr. Boardman Reed, a prominent physician there and late physician to the Mercer Memorial Home for Invalid Women, Atlantic City, we are furnished with a reliable report of the condition of the sewerage there at present. The system of sewerage they have Turkey, Cranberry sauce. I adopted is what is known as the "West" Chicken, a la Creole. Corned Beef and Cabbage. Roasts. system and operated by the Improved Sewerage and Sewage Utilization Company, of New York. Briefly stated this system comprises a pumping station and reservoir or well with deep laid sewers converging to it and filted beds situated at considerable distance from the well out on salt meadows. A full description of the system is furnished in a little pamphlet by Dr. Boardman Reed, who is a leading physician of Atlantic City, and in whose care patients can be sent at any time. Dr. Boardman Reed has recently associated with him Dr. Philip Marvel, which combination is strong. The Meteorological reports show the climate to be mild, salubrious and exceptionally favorable to invalids. The following are reports from Meteorological statistics of the temperature, humidity and barometrical pressure at Atlantic City: MONTHS, 1880. house will pay well, even if the climbing to the top is a little troublesome. I believe it is 170 feet high, reached by 228 spiral steps. The lamp is what is known as Funck's mineral oil lamp, with fixed white light and Fresnd lens. This light can be seen and distinguished from other lights at a distance of twenty miles. The lighthouse keeper, Major A. G. Wolf, is a genius, and always ready to show his castle with all curiosities, and explain all points of interest with his own good stories. There is a scrupulous cleanliness in and about the premises, mixed with an air of comfort and refinement. Nothwithstanding the sand on the ocean and other disadvantages, the keeper has a beautiful flower garden, and the way he raises his flowers is so unique that it is worthy of a visit. Amidst an area of sand it requires daily watering. Now, as we all know, after sundown is the proper time to water plants and at this time he is Barom occupied with his duties in the Lighthouse, so he waters his plants in the morning while at leisure and forms a cone of paper which he places over each plant, thus protecting them from the light and the rays of the sun, and later in the day, when old boreas is at his zenith, removes them, thereby creating day or night for his plants at will. Visitors will find the keeper genial and accommodating and the Lighthouse worthy of a visit. Mean eter. 30.189 MONTHS, 1881. 30.173 29.077 30.139 Annual amount of railfall in inches at the principal cities and stations on the Atlantic coast for the years ending June 30th, 1878, 1879, 1881, 1882. Mean annu- There are many first-class Hotels and among none more so than the Mansion Atlantic City, 42.90 40.60 55.48 39.55 40.24 8 yrs House, whose genial and popular pro 1878, 1879. 1881. 1882. Barnegat.N. J., 52.35 49.38 60.13 58.85 50.20 8 Cape May, N.J., 47.99 42,44 60.54 40.41 46.70 10 66 From the above report it will be seen that Atlantic City has Metereological conditions which make it a pleasant resort even during the winter, while the air is always refreshing. prietor, Mr. McGlade, is thoroughly energetic, anxious to please, and makes his house second to none. There are many places of amusement among them the Music Hall, which is worthy a visit. There is an artesian well, depth 1,150 feet, with the view to supply the place with pure spring water. There are many Churches and CharNow let me mention a few other itable Institutions, and taking all in all, points of interest. A visit to the Light- | Atlantic City is quite a town. And a visit to this pleasant resort for either health or pleasure will be a good investment of both time and money. I would state for the benefit of those who are fond of the gun and rod that nowhere along the coast are there greater facilities for these sports than here. Fish and fowl of all kind abound and are found in abundance. The meadows abound with duck, geese, plover, snipe, marlin, curlew and mud hens, while the woods are full of quail in the fall months. The sounds and bays teem with thousands of the finny tribe at certain seasons of the year. The Life Saving Station is in charge or Captain Amasa Brown, who has been its efficient keeper for the past nine years. He has seven assistants and this crew goes through an interesting drill once a week during the season. At the United States Signal Station visitors are welcomed by Signal Officer Loveland, who will give an interesting and scientifie lecture about the methods of conducting the signal service. More can be said about Atlantic City, but I must close, fearing to trespass too much on the space of the MONTHLY and to tire my readers out. This trip was the inauguration of a new daily express train, which since January 10th has been run regularly between New York and Atlantic City, and we find advertised in the papers as follows: ATLANTIC CITY BY CENTRAL RR. OF NEW JERSEY THROUGH IN THREE AND THREE-QUARTER HOURS. A SOLID THROUGH EXPRESS TRAIN with elegant coaches, parlor cars, leaves New York foot Liberty st., week days, at 2.30 p. m. The Central Railroad of New Jersey has fulfilled their promise in every respect, and this advertisement is a very modest form, which is excelled by the real facts in execution. The importance of this travel cannot be overesti mated by the public, and brings in easy reach important health resorts, which formerly were too distant for New York people. Now we can go in two hours to Lakewood, and in 3 hours and 45 minutes to Atlantic City from New York. It is my sincere conviction that soon we shall make the trip in still less time, which can be done if the Railroad track is extended and run close to the ocean, instead of by Winslow Junction, as at present. For a health and pleasure resort the question now is, not how far it is, but in what time can it be reached. ROBT. NEWMAN, M. D. New York, 68 West 36th St. SEVENTH DECENNIAL CONVENTION FOR REVISING THE PHARMACOPOEIA OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Editor New England Medical Monthly: Notice is hereby given that, in accordance with and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Convention of 1880, I hereby call upon the several incorporated Medical Societies, incorporated Medical Colleges, incorporated Colleges of Pharmacy, and incorporated Parmaceutical Societies throughout the United States of America, The American Medical Association, and the American Pharmaceutical Association, to elect a number of delegates, not exceeding three, and upon the Surgeon-General of the Army, Surgeon-General of the Navy, and the Surgeon-General of the Marine Hospital Service to appoint, each, not exceeding three medical officers to attend a General Convention for the revision and publication of the Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America, to assemble in the city of Washington, D. C., on the first Wednesday of May, 1890, (May 7th), at twelve o'clock noon. The several bodies, as well as the Medical Departments of the Army, Navy and Marine Hospital Service, are hereby requested to submit the Pharmacopoeia to a careful revision, and to transmit the result of their labors to the Committee of Revision a least three months before the meeting of the General Convention. to representation. If any body other than those admitted in 1880 shall desire a representation in the Convention of 1890, it is suggested that the proof of incorporation, signed by the Secretary of State, of the State which shall have issued the charter, or by properly qualified public officials of the United States, be presented with credentials of the delegation. A blank form of certificate of ap The several Medical and Pharmaceuitcal bodies are hereby requested to transmit to me, as the President of the Convention of 1880, the names and residences of their respective delegates, as soon as they shall have been appointmunt of delegates will be sent pointed; a list of these delegates shall thereupon be published under my authority, for the information of the medical public, in the newspapers and medical journals in the month of March, 1890. In the event of the death, resignation or inability of the President of the Convention of 1880 to act, these duties (in accordance with the resolution of that Convention) shall devolve, successively, in the following order of precedence: upon the Vice-Presidents, the Secretary, the Assistant Secretary, and the Chairman of the Committee of Revision and Publication of the Pharmacopoeia. These officers are as follows: First Vice-President, Samuel C. Busey, M. D., of Washington, D. C.; Second VicePresident, P. W. Bedford, Ph.G, of New York; Secretary, Frederick A. Castle, M. D., of New York; Assistant Secretary, C. H. A. Kleinschmidt, M. D., of Washington, D. C.; Chairman of Committee of Revision, Charles Rice, Ph.D., of Philadelphia, Pa.; Second Vice-Chairman of the Committee of Revision, C. Lewis Diehl, Ph.G., of Lousville, Ky. At the General Convention held in Washington, D. C., on the fifth day of May, 1880, the organizations and bodies enumerated in the abstract of the proceedings of the National Convention of 1880, on pp. xv. to xviii. of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia of 1882-a list of which will be found appended to this call-were recognized as being entitled upon application by letter to my address, care of Dr. Edwin H. Brigham, Assistant Librarian of the Boston Medical Library, 19 Boylston Place, Boston, Mass. ROBERT AMORY, President of the Convention of 1889. LIST OF INCORPORATED BODIES AND OF SENTED IN THE PHARMACO PEIAL CONVENTION OF 1880. Connecticut Medical Society; Iowa State Medical Society; Massachusetts Medical Society; Medical Society of the State of New York; Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York; College of Physicians, Philadelphia; Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland; Medical Society of the District of Columbia; New York Academy of Medicine; Philadelphia County Medical Society. Albany Medical College; Medical Department of Union University, Albany, N. Y.; Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York; College of Medicine, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y.; College of Physicians and Surgeons, Medical Department of Columbia College, New York; Dartmouth Medical College, Hanover, N. H.; Department of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Michigan, Ann Ar bor; Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.; Medical College of Indiana, Medical Department of Butler University, Irvington, Indiana; Medical Department of Howard University, Washington, D. C.; Medical Department of Iowa State University, Iowa City; Medical Department of the University of Georgetown, Washington, D. C.; Medical Department of the University of Maryland, Baltimore; Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.; Medical Department of the University of Virginia, Charlottville, Va.; Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, O.; Missouri Medical College, St. Louis; National Medical College, Medical Depart-¦ ment of Columbia University, Washington, D. C.; Rush Medical College, Chicago, Ill.; University of the City of New York, Medical department, New York; Women's Medical College of the Infirmary, New York; Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Chicago College of Pharmacy, Chicago, Ill.; Cincinnati, College of Pharmacy, Cincinnati, Ohio; College of Pharmacy of the City of New York, N. Y.; Louisville College of Pharmacy, Louisville, Ky.; Maryland College of Pharmacy, Baltimore Md.; Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, Boston, Mass.; National College of Pharmacy, Washington, D. C.; Pennsylvania College of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, Pa.; Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, Pa.; St. Louis College of Pharmacy, St. Louis, Mo.; University of Michigan, School of Pharmacy, Ann Arbor, Mich. Medical Department of the U. S. ArMedical Department of the U. S. Navy; U. S. Marine Hospital Service. my; NOTES AND COMMENTS. It was only a few weeks ago that we recorded the death of Mr. Jorden W. Lambert, the President of the Lambert Pharmacal Company, and now we are compelled to perform the same sad duty for his lovely wife. Stricken down with the sorrow which was too much for her to bear, she faded away and has gone to join her loved one. May God in his infinite mercy care for the little ones thus left without parents. "With each and every gentle gurgle of the genial and refreshing product of the combined forces of the merry and mellowing malt and the healthful and harmonious hop as it passes the entrance of your alimentary canal, and through your æsophogus and stomach directly into your circulation through the medium of your absorbient system, may each and every one of your glorious globules be warmed in a rosier hue, and may they arouse in your memOry pleasant thoughts and remeniscenses of your friend." The above sentiment accompanied a barrel of bottles of St. Louis Anhyzer Busch, from an esteemed friend. It will be appreciated by our readers, but it will be difficult to find out who sent it as there are no ear-marks.(?) The Committee appointed by the American Medican Medical Association upon the Coronor system of the United States, Dr. Henry O. Marcy, 116 Boylstreet, Boston, Chairman, invite correspondence from all interested in the subject, The preliminary report of the Committee, made to the last meeting, showed a singular lacking in an efficient system of laws in many of the States. Few subjects of Medico-legal character are of greater importance to the body politic and it is hoped much good will result from the effort to reorganize the Coronor laws in the various States. THE KNEE-JERK IN DIPHTHERIA.—In a note on the knee-jerk in diphtheria Dr. W. B. Hadden, in the Lancet, says that so long as this remains absent the patient cannot be considered free from the risks of paralysis and of cardiac failure. Journal of the A. M. A. Mucous PATCHES.-A solution of chromic acid is perhaps the best application to mucous patches, especially to those in the mouth and pharynx. Use from two to five grains to the ounce. |