114 THE ALUMNI JOURNAL 



Mr. George llalm, the President of the local Druggists' Asso- 

 ciation, welcomed the delegates and their friends, on hehalf of the 

 local druggist-, which welcome was responded to by William 

 Muench, of Syracuse, a former President of the State Association. 



The annual address of President Sears, which was read while 

 vice-president L. J. Schlesinger was in the chair, is an able docu- 

 ment and covers in a comprehensive manner, the status of phar- 

 macy in our State at this time.. In the course of his address Pres- 

 ident Sears deprecated the attacks, made in the public press, and 

 otherwise, upon Doctors Wiley and Rusby. He called attention 

 to the fact that two pharmacists \%ere members of the legislature. 

 and that both of them had been of material service to the phar- 

 macists during the past session of the legislature. Other import- 

 ant matters which received attention are the following: The evils 

 attending the distribution of free anti-toxin by the state; the need 

 (if more stringent anti-narcotic laws, to prevent the indiscriminate 

 -ale of anti-narcotic drugs; The need of better training in the 

 scientific as well as in the commercial side of pharmacy; A recom- 

 mendation that the Department of Agriculture be requested to 

 issue bulletins relative to the matter of drug culture in the United 

 States. He expressed his high appreciation of the work done for 

 the advancment of pharmacy, by the Pharmaceutical Journals and 

 thanked the commercial travellers' association for its efforts to 

 increase the membership of the State Association. Lastly he re- 

 ferred with regret, to the loss sustained by the association, in the 

 death ^i a number of its members. 



The Secretary of the Association, Mr. Edward S. Dawson of 

 Syracuse, submitted a report which showed that there are at pres- 

 ent [,319 members on the roll, and that there were 301 persons 

 registered as attending this meeting, as against [87 for the rojl 

 meeting. 



The report ot" the treasurer. Mr. Frank Richardson, of Cam- 

 bridge, X. Y.. showed a balance of $1,323.95 in the treasury, an 

 ..mount slightly in excess of the [911 balance. 



The report of the Committee on Pharmacy and Queries, Chair- 

 man P. P. Tuthill. showed that among other- the following papers 

 were ready for presentation: 



