THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



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October i, 1894. 



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AilERlCAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSO- 

 CIATION. 



When the well-known H. C. Whit- 

 ney, on the last day of the meeting at 

 Asheville, arose and said, " Gentlemen, 

 I give up the championship belt to the 

 Local Secretary and his committee," it 

 meant more merely than that the mem- 

 bers of the American Pharmaceutical As- 

 sociation and their friends enjoyed with 

 so much rapture and delight the hos- 

 pitality and scenery of Asheville and 

 derived so much profit from the various 

 sections devoted to science and education 

 — it meant that those present had had a 

 "royal time" all around and all the time. 

 It would be impossible to even enumerate 

 all of those features that tended to make 



this meeting commemorable- Nearly 150 

 new members were elected and com- 

 pleted their membership before the meet- 

 ing was over. In the scientific section 

 some 35 papers were presented while in 

 the section on education and legislation 

 more than 50 papers were presented. 

 The last session of latter section closed at 

 midnight on Friday. The interest had 

 been so great that Mr. S- A. D. Shep- 

 pard called the attention of the members 

 to the fact that in the near future the 

 time of the meeting must be extended. 

 The scarcely sufficient time for the read- 

 ing (even in abstract) of many of the 

 papers and the time of discussion was 

 so curtailed that a great many were dis- 

 appointed. 



It is encouraging to educators to know 

 that the resolution passed by the Inter- 

 national Pharmaceutical Congress was 

 unanimously approved by the American 

 Pharmaceutical Association and upon 

 motion it was ordered that a copy of the 

 resolution be sent to the secretary of each 

 State Pharmaceutical Association. The 

 resolution reads as follows : 



Resolved, That it is the sense of this Associa- 

 tion that no person should be admitted as an 

 apprentice in pharmacy unless he shall have 

 given evidence by satisfactorily passing a pre- 

 liminary examination, or otherwise, that he 

 possesses a general education sufficient for such 

 apprenticeship, and has advanced as the condi- 

 tions of the practice of pharmacy in the United 

 States permit, and his term of apprenticeship in 

 pharmacy should in no case be counted so far 

 as it may antedate said evidence of sufficient 

 preliminary education. 



Resolved, That the period of apprenticeship 

 in pharmacy ought not to be less than four 

 years, including the time devoted by the ap- 

 prentice to regular attendance upon the courses 

 of instruction in a pharmaceutical school. 



Resolved, That this Association approves the 

 establishment of a compulsory curriculum of 

 pharmaceutical education and holds that no 

 person should be regarded as a qualified phar- 

 macist who has not passed to completion a sys- 

 tematic course of instruction in chemistrj'. 

 pharmacognosy and pharmacy. 



