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classical college, one is engaged in a 

 manufacturing laboratory. 



I see you are already wearied, but 

 consider, my friends, that to-day I have 

 my inning for the first, last and only 

 time, by your grace, and bear with me 

 while I oifer three suggestions in addi- 

 tion to that relating to the Observation 

 Sheet, a rough draft of which I submit 

 herewith. 



First. I recommend that the matter 

 of the establishment of a National Phar- 

 macy Commission and the enactment of 

 a National Pharmacv Law securing as 

 far as practical uniform methods of reg- 

 istration by practical examination, be 

 referred to the Section on Education and 

 Legislation, with a request that a bill be 

 drafted and presented to the Association 

 for di.scus'^ion, amendment and subse- 

 quent advocacy. It will be some time 

 before this can be secured, but a begin- 

 ning can be made at once. 



Second. I recommend that the Sec- 

 tions on Education and Legislation and 

 on Scientific Papers present to the Asso- 

 ciation an outline of a course of instruc- 

 tion in pharmacy, such as in their esti- 

 mation it would be desirable for teaching 

 colleges to conform to as far as prac- 

 ticable. We admit that we cannot se- 

 cure uniformity in instruction, but we 

 can present an ideal good for five to ten 

 years that may exert some influence 

 upon the standard of education in phar- 

 macy, although we do not assume to 

 dictate to any school how it shall do its 

 work. 



Third. — Two years ago we met very 

 near Heaven, among the White Moun- 

 tains of our beloved New England. On 

 that point of lofty vantage Dr. Hoffman 

 presented to this Association his concep- 

 tion of the duty of our colleges to hus- 

 band the resources frittered away in 

 prizes and establish an endowment fund 

 for the higher education of promising 



graduates, that we might secure in the 

 not distant future a corps of teachers of 

 pharmacy far in advance of those of to- 

 da}^ 



Here at Asheville we are said to be 

 still nearer Heaven than two years ago 

 (if that is possible), and I desire to em- 

 brace the opportunity to present for your 

 consideration a project which may pos- 

 sibly seem cloudlike and visionary, yet 

 which might readily be executed, be 

 eminently practical and extend the use- 

 fulness of this Association in advancing^ 

 the interest and honor of pharmacy. 



I recommend the establishment of an 

 American Pharmaceutical Association 

 Scholarship Fund of fifteen hundred dol- 

 lars annually, forthe purpose of securing 

 to suitable candidates the advantages of 

 higher education in pharmacy. 



The sum to be raised by voluntary 

 subscription or by appropriations from 

 our treasury of one-half the sum and tue 

 solicitation of the balance from the various 

 State Associations. 



THE CANDIDATE. 



First. — ^^He must be an honor graduate 

 from an American College of Pharmacy. 



Second. — He must pass a good physi- 

 cal examination. 



Third. — ^He must be free from the im- 

 pairment caused by indulgence in the use 

 of tobacco, alcoholic beverages or an)^ 

 other vice that hinders the highest pos- 

 sible physical development and the 

 severest training of the body and mind. 



Fourth. — He shall present to the ex- 

 amining Board an original paper involv- 

 ing the results of personal observation or 

 experience in some department of in- 

 vestigation of value to pharmacy. This 

 paper shall be published in the proceed- 

 ings if considered worthy. 



Fifth. — He shall pass a satisfactory ex- 

 amination in Mathematics, Geography, 

 American History, Botany, Theoretical 

 Pharmacy, Chemistry, and Latin of 



