482  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {A^J™£.  S,grm' 
Final  General  Session. — The  last  general  session  was  held  on 
Saturday  morning.  The  minutes  of  the  new  Council  showed  the 
election  of  the  following  officers :  Joseph  P.  Remington,  Chairman, 
and  Joseph  W.  England,  Secretary.  A  number  of  reports  of 
Committees  were  received  and  resolutions  referred  to  the  general 
sessions  from  the  sections  were  adopted.  The  most  important  work 
of  the  meeting  was  the  adoption  of  all  the  resolutions  offered  by  the 
Committee  on  National  Formulary  and  the  discussion  on  the  re- 
organization of  the  Association.  While  no  active  steps  have  been 
taken  to  re-organize  the  work  of  the  Association  it  is  not  unlikely 
but  that  steps  will  be  taken  in  the  near  future  to  concentrate  the 
work,  and  shorten  the  time  of  the  meetings.  After  the  installation 
of  the  new  officers  President  Oldberg  declared  the  fifty-sixth  meet- 
ing of  the  Association  adjourned  sine  die. 
SECTION  ON  SCIENTIFIC  PAPERS. 
This  Section  held  two  sessions  on  Thursday.  The  Chairman  of 
the  Section,  Professor  Virgil  Coblentz,  was  unable  to  be  present 
on  account  of  trouble  with  his  eyes  and  his  address  on  "  Our 
Pharmacopceial  Rubrics  "  was  read  by  the  Secretary,  Chas.  E.  Van- 
derkleed,  who  also  acted  as  chairman  of  the  Section.  The  Ebert 
Prize  was  awarded  to  A.  B.  Stevens  and  L.  E.  Warren  for  their 
paper,  on  "Poison  Sumac"  (Proc.  1907,  p.  423;  Amer.  Jour. 
Pharm.,  1907,  p.  499).  The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Drug 
Market  was  read  by  Lyman  F.  Kebler.  The  following  officers 
were  elected  for  the.  ensuing  year:  Chairman,  Charles  E.  Vander- 
kleed ;  Secretary,  M.  I.  Wilbert ;  Associate,  Albert  H.  Clark.  The 
following  are  abstracts  of  some  of  the  papers  which  were  presented : 
Crude  and  Powdered  Drugs  at  the  Port  of  New  York  During 
the  Year  1907-08. 
By  H.  H.  Rusby. 
"  Doubtless  the  most  important  part  of  the  year's  results  is  the 
demonstration  that  much  of  the  adulteration  of  drugs  is  intentional 
and  studied,  arid  is  a  business  proposition  purely."  The  findings 
of  Dr.  Rusby  will  be  published  in  a  later  issue  of  this  Journal. 
