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for, so far as the cuisine was concerned, 

 in the same room in which their meetings 

 were held, so that the minimum amount 

 of interruption and loss of time due to the 

 taking of meals was experienced. 



During Thursday forenoon, while the 

 gentlemen conducted their business, the 

 ladies, 42 in number, were treated to a 

 delightful ride over a route which is 

 equaled as a carriage drive by very few 

 places the world over, namely, through 

 the western portion of Newark, Orange, 

 Montclair and Bloomfield, including a 

 portion of the " Mountain Road." The 

 afternoon was devoted to the reading of 

 scientific papers. In the evening a ban- 

 quet was served. Friday forenoon the 

 "sheep" and the "goats" were again 

 separated, the gentlemen visiting a 

 chemical manufactory, while the ladies 

 were shown through the Clark Thread 

 Works. In the afternoon all enjoyed a 

 delightful sail up the lovely Passaic, fol- 

 lowed by a collation at Speer's Wine 

 Establishment. 



Although the entire series of exercises 

 constituted a grand success and reflected 

 great credit upon the management, yet 

 two of the transactions to be recorded 

 exceeded in importance all the other re- 

 sults combined. 



In the afternoon a delegation was re- 

 ceived from the State Medical Association 

 bringing a report of the action taken by 

 a joint commission of the two associa- 

 tions which had met to consider action 

 looking toward a united effort to increase 

 and extend the public benefits resulting 

 from the practice of the two professions 

 in that State. The occasion was more 

 interesting because the Pharmaceutical 

 Association, already regarded as the old- 

 est in the United States, had been an off- 

 shoot from the Essex District Medical 

 Association, which in turn is said to be, 

 or to have developed into, the oldest 

 State Medical Association of the country; 



also because both of the visiting dele- 

 gates, Doctors Coit and Silver, had 

 passed the first year of their professional 

 life as pharmacists, studying medicine 

 subsequently. Dr. Coit, moreover, was 

 for some time after his graduation an in- 

 structor in materia medica in the New 

 York College of Pharmacy. The com- 

 mission recommended a more general 

 subscription to, and a more faithful ob- 

 servance of, the ethical requirements 

 which are supposed to govern the two 

 professions. The report covered three 

 divisions. 1st. The relations of the phy- 

 sician to the pharmacist ; 2d. The rela- 

 tions of the pharmacist to the physician, 

 and 3d, the relations of both professions 

 to the public. Under each division there 

 were three general headings which cover 

 the most important points involved and 

 which in general were very similar to the 

 code of ethics for many years printed in 

 the prospectus of our college, but more 

 recently, and as we think with poor 

 judgment, omitted therefrom. The re- 

 port was enthusiastically adopted, the 

 commission continued and a resolution 

 passed that they should have power to 

 perfect the code along the lines indicated 

 in the report. 



An even more important proceeding 

 was the treatment of a paper presented 

 by Mr. Wm. C. Alpers of the State 

 Board of Pharmacy on the subject of ex- 

 aminations by pharmacy boards and 

 leading up to the presentation of a curri- 

 culum for candidates which he regarded 

 as being required by the conditions of the 

 profession. Mr. Alpers was careful to 

 specify that this recommendation did not 

 represent any official action which had 

 been taken by his board, but stated at 

 the same time that his fellow-members 

 were in accord with him as individuals in 

 approving the curriculum so presented. 

 This curriculum he stated had been 

 drawn up as the result of a careful study 



