PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 

 OF THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 



Vol. 



New York, October, 1894. 



No. 6. 



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ADDRESS OF EDGAR L. PATCH,* 



President of the American Pharmaceutical Association, 



IT is considered to be the duty of the lence as practical in character as could 



* President to present with his annual be expected and far enough in advance 



report a resume of matters of practical of the general pharmacist to prove an 



import that have transpired during the educator of the highest value, 

 interval between the meetings, and to Should any pharmacist or assistant 



offer such suggestions for the furtherance undertake the systematic comparison of 



of the usefulness of this As.sociation as 

 may occur to him. 



An attempt to name the new antis. 



his products with the detailed descrip- 

 tion furnished him he would soon of 

 necessity acquire a fund of information 



the a7tes, and the ines that have sprung concerning pharmacy, chemistry and bot- 

 any that would largely increase his appre- 

 ciation of the book, his own self-respect, 

 and his value to the community at large. 

 Our last volume of proceedings, in the 

 character of original papers presented, 

 the report on the progress of pharmacy, 

 including the abstract of the scientific 

 papers presented to the various State As- 

 social ions, the alphabetical list of new 

 remedies, the index to papers and publi- 

 cations of interest appearing at home and 

 abroad equals its predecessors, is worthy 

 the highest position asa valuable work of 

 reference, and should be at the disposal of 

 every progressive pharmacist in our 

 country. The volume possesses unusual 

 interest. Its story of the life and achieve- 

 ment of our late honored permanent 

 Secretary, Prof. Maisch, illustrating the 



Minerva like from the synthetical labor- 

 atory or from the office of the clever 

 manipulator each twenty-four hours since 

 our last meeting seems out of place, in 

 view of the enterprise of our trade jour- 

 nals, and the careful sifting to be given 

 them by our Reporter on the Progress of 

 Pharmacy. 



The exhaustive and able review of the 

 last edition of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia 

 presented at our last meeting by my pre- 

 decessor leaves little to be said in that 

 direction. 



The book has been open to criticism 

 for a year and it would be strange indeed 

 if some defects and faults could not be 

 found, but I believe every unprejudiced 

 mind must see in it a work of rare excel- 



*Read at the 42d Annual Meeting at -isheville, N. C, 

 Sept. 3, 1894. (Abstracted.) 



