498  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  { Al JjJ;  5Sfm" 
adequate.  The  number  of  hours  for  the  entire  course  should  be 
at  least  two  hundred,  and  the  number  should  be  increased  to  four 
hundred  as  soon  as  practicable. 
Pharmacopceial  Nomenclature. 
By  Henry  M.  Whelpley. 
The  author  stated  that  the  pharmacopoeial  nomenclature  is  ignored 
by  many  of  the  manufacturers  and  jobbers  and  recognized  in  only 
a  half-hearted  way  in  the  price-lists,  while  many  of  the  sets  of 
examination  questions  issued  by  boards  of  pharmacy  indicate  gross 
carelessness  in  nomenclature.  A  motion  was  offered  that  the 
Association  request  the  manufacturers,  the  jobbers,  the  publishers 
of  price-lists  and  the  boards  of  pharmacy  to  adopt  the  pharmacopceial 
nomenclature.  This  resolution  was  adopted  by  the  Association  at 
the  general  session  on  Saturday. 
Harmful  Effects  of  Our  Pharmacy  Laws. 
By  William  F.  Kammerer. 
The  author  contends  that  our  pharmacy  laws  have  not  benefited 
the  retail  pharmacist  but  have  done  real  harm  because  that  section 
of  the  law  which  was  intended  to  prevent  a  drug  store  from 
being  left  in  charge  of  an  unregistered  clerk  during  the  temporary 
absence  of  the  responsible  head,  is  not  enforced  and  on  account  of 
the  character  of  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  examinations  and  the 
manner  in  which  they  have  been  conducted. 
The  Value  of  Pharmaceutical  Advisory  Boards  to  State 
Boards  of  Health. 
By  L.  E.  Sayre. 
The  author  suggests  that  the  proper  thing  for  the  pharmacists 
to  contend  for  is  a  fair,  just  and  proper  representation  upon  the 
Board  of  Health,  such  a  representation  as  is  obtained  in  the  State 
of  Kansas,  for  example. 
We  suggest  as  a  general  resolution  that :  "  The  State  Boards  of 
Pharmacy  in  those  States  having  food  and  drug  laws  analogous  to 
the  national  law,  the  State  Boards  of  Pharmacy  be  requested  to 
offer  their  services  to  the  State  Board  of  Health  as  an  'Advisory 
Board  3  in  pharmaceutical  matters." 
The  pharmacists  in  Kansas  thus  far  have  been  most  generously 
represented  in  this  way,  and  they  are  likely  to  have  more,  as 
