198  Pharmaceutical  Meeting.  { Am  f4a;m 
tains  the  Pharmaceutical  Institute  at  Berlin,  where  laboratory  facili- 
ties are  furnished  for  carrying  on  work  of  this  kind,  and  said  that 
some  such  plan  should  be  adopted  in  this  country.  He  said  it  was 
unreasonable  to  expect  three  or  four  men  to  work  out  formulae  for 
the  40,000  pharmacists  of  the  country. 
Professor  Remington  remarked  that  the  question  here  was  the 
same  as  with  the  Pharmacopoeia ;  that  for  seventy  years  things  went 
along  very  quietly;  but  when  the  Food  and  Drugs  Act  was  passed, 
a  different  attitude  was  assumed,  and  comments  began  to  be  freely 
made  and  information  volunteered. 
At  the  conclusion  of  the  discussion,  Mr.  Beringer  offered  the  fol- 
lowing resolution,  which  was  adopted : 
Resolved,  That  we  request  that  the  Committee  on  National  Formulary,  of 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  proceed  immediately  to  revise  that 
work,  so  as  to  make  it  a  proper  legal  standard  ;  and,  further,  that  the  members 
of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  and  the  pharmacists  attending  this 
meeting,  pledge  their  assistance  to  the  committee  toward  improving  the  work 
and  making  the  formulas  satisfactory. 
A  paper  entitled,  "  Suggestions  from  the  British  Pharmaceutical 
Codex"  was  read  by  M.  I.  Wilbert  (see  page  172).  While  reading 
the  paper,  he  incidentally  remarked  that  if  the  quantities  of  sodium 
borate  and  sodium  benzoate,  directed  by  the  formula  of  the  N.  F.  for 
alkaline  antiseptic  solution  be  reversed,  the  preparation  is  much 
improved. 
Prof.  Charles  H.  La  Wall  read  a  paper  on  "  The  Quantitative 
Estimation  of  Benzoic  Acid  in  Catsup  "  (see  page  171). 
Prof.  Henry  Kraemer  announced  that  fifty-four  volumes  of  the 
American  Journal  of  Pharmacy  and  forty-seven  volumes  of  the 
*  Proceedings  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,"  had 
been  donated  to  the  college  by  one  of  its  members,  Dr.  Joseph 
Heintzelman,  and  moved  that  a  vote  of  thanks  be  tendered  Dr. 
Heintzelman  for  his  liberal  gift,  which  motion  was  unanimously 
adopted.  Florence  Yaple, 
Secretary  pro  tern. 
