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York. By a will executed on March 20, 1885, 

 in New York, he left the bulk of his estate, 

 valued at nearly $4,000,000, for the foundation 

 of a charitable educational institution for chil- 

 dren. Mr. Sevilla authorized the executors to 

 locate the home anywhere in the United States, 

 hut if they found it impossible to incorporate 

 such an institution in this country the gift was 

 to be transferred to France. The institution 

 was to be for the benefit of American and Pe- 

 ruvian children. 



PHARMACY. The continual enactment of 

 more stringent laws requiring the selection 

 of competent persons for the dispensing of 

 medicines is shown by the increased demands 

 for pharmaceutical education. The publication 

 of new and better journals likewise indicates 

 an improved condition of the art. 



Colleges. The trustees of Cornell founded a 

 School of Pharmacy on March 7, 1887, in con- 

 nection with the University at Ithaca, N. Y. 

 About the same time a Department of Phar- 

 macy was added to the University of Kansas 

 in Kansas City. During the year special schools 

 for this branch have been inaugurated at How- 

 ard University, Washington, D. C. ; Purdue 

 University, Lafayette, Ind. ; and at Vanderbilt 

 University, Nashville, Tenn. A Pharmaceutical 

 Department has recently been established in 

 connection with the Minnesota Hospital College 

 at Minneapolis, Minn. 



Legislation. Acts regulating the sale of poi- 

 sons in Alabama, Georgia, and New York have 

 come into force since the first of the year, also 

 pharmaceutical laws have been enacted in 

 Alabama, Colorado, Dakota, Idaho, Montana, 

 Nebraska, and Pennsylvania. So that at pres- 

 ent proper measures regulating the practice of 

 pharmacy are in active operation in all of the 

 States excepting the following: Arkansas, 

 California, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Mis- 

 sissippi, Nevada, Oregon, Tennessee. Texas, 

 and Vermont. Certain of the Territories are 

 still without laws. 



Associations. The thirty-fifth annual meet- 

 ing of the American Pharmaceutical Associa- 

 tion was held in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 

 5, and continued four days. Several hundred 

 members were present and upward of seventy 

 new members were elected. In order to ex- 

 pedite the work of the Association and render 

 it more efficient, it was reorganized and formed 

 into four sections as follows: 1, scientific pa- 

 pers; 2, commercial interests; 3, pharma- 

 ceutical education; 4, legislation each of 

 which elects its own chairman and secretary. 

 Subsequent to this action, the National Eetail 

 Druggists' Association, no longer being neces- 

 sary, was merged into the parent organization. 

 The admission-fee was abolished and hereafter 

 only annual dues will be required. Besides the 

 scientific papers read and discussed, various re- 

 ports were accepted, notably that on the 

 " National Formulary," which provided for 

 the speedy publication of the manual contain- 

 ing the accepted formulas. John U. Lloyd of 



Cincinnati, Ohio, was elected president, and 

 John M. Maisch, of Philadelphia, Pa., continued 

 as secretary. Detroit, Mich., was chosen for 

 the meeting-place in 1888, and the date Sep- 

 tember 3. The Florida State Pharmaceutical 

 Association was organized at Jacksonville on 

 June 8, 1887, and local associations at Fort 

 Worth and San Antonio, Texas, during the year. 



Trade Associations. The twelfth annual meet- 

 ing of the Wholesale Druggists' Association 

 was held in Boston, Mass., beginning its ses- 

 sions on August 23. Reports on adulteration?, 

 credits and collections, paints, oils, and glass, 

 the drug market, commercial travelers, trans- 

 portation, and fraternal relations were pre- 

 sented by the committees appointed to con- 

 sider those subjects and discussed by the mem- 

 bers. The special committee on mutual fire 

 insurance reported that under the auspices of 

 the Association there had been established 

 " The Druggists' Mutual Fire Insurance Com- 

 pany," which was organized in June, under the 

 laws of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia. Offer- 

 ings of nearly $1,000,000 insurance were re- 

 ceived almost immediately, and success is as- 

 sured. It will afford an enormous saving to 

 the wholesale druggists of the country, and the 

 maintenance of an important competitor of the 

 old-line companies, and some exemption from 

 their tyranny. E. Waldo Cutter, of Boston, 

 Mass., was chosen president, and A. B. Mer- 

 riam retained as secretary for the year. Sara- 

 toga Springs, N. Y., was selected as the meet- 

 ing-place for 1888. 



Trade Relations. Under the direction of the 

 National Wholesale Druggists' Association the 

 contract plan between manufacturers and job- 

 bers is becoming more perfect, while among 

 the retailers the entire absence of any con- 

 certed action is shown by the increasing ten- 

 dency among pharmacists, especially in large 

 cities, to cut prices on proprietary articles. 



Literature. The hooks of the year include 

 " Text Book of Therapeutics and Materia 

 Medica," by Robert T. Edes (Philadelphia) ; 

 " Manual of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical 

 Chemistry," by Charles F.Heebner(New York); 

 " Handbook of Pharmacy and Therapeutics," 

 by James E. Lilly (Indianapolis) ; " Drug 

 Eruptions," by P. A. Morrow (New York) ; 

 " Pharmaceutical Problems and Exercises in 

 Metrology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy," by Os- 

 car Oldberg, and " A Laboratory Manual of 

 Chemistry," by Oscar Oldberg and John H. 

 Long (Chicago); "Handbook of Materia Med- 

 ica, Pharmacy, and Therapeutics," by S. O. L. 

 Potter (Philadelphia); and "The Principles of 

 Pharmacognosy," translated from the German 

 of Flilckiger and Tschirch by Frederick B. 

 Power; also, new editions of C. L. Lochman's 

 " Dose and Price Labels of all the Drugs and 

 Preparations of the United States Pharma- 

 copoeia " (Philadelphia) ; John M. Maisch's 

 " Organic Materia Medica " ; and F. E. Stewart's 

 " Quiz-Compend of Pharmacy." 



" The Pharmaceutical Era," under the edi- 



