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AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
The  17th  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Association  will  be  held  in  Chicago, 
on  the  7th  day  of  September  next,  at  3  o'clock,  P.  M.  The  specific 
place  of  meeting  and  the  arrangements  for  the  accommodation  of  those 
in  attendance,  will  be  announced  by  the  Local  Secretary,  As  this  will 
be  the  first  meeting  held  in  the  metropolis  of  the  north-west,  and  will 
probably  attract  much  attention  in  that  section,  it  is  earnestly  desired 
that  a  large  and  widely  diffused  representation  of  the  membership  wilj 
give  evidence  of  a  continued  and  growing  interest  in  the  Association, 
Druggists  and  pharmacists  eligible  for  membership  are  invited  to  pre- 
sent themselves  as  candidates,  and  thus  aid  in  extending  the  Association 
and  increasing  its  influence. 
Edward  Parrish, 
Philadelphia,  6th  mo.,  1869.  President, 
^iiitonal  HcpartmeuU 
Legislation  for  Pharmacy  in  North  Germany. — The  lower  house 
(Reichstag)  of  the  North  G-erman  Parliament  has  under  consideration  a 
law  to  regulate  industrial  pursuits,  which  has  passed  the  second  reading. 
It  contains  the  following  clauses  relating  to  apothecaries  and  physicians : 
"  Section  29.  An  approbation,  (or  license),  conferred  on  proof  of  capa- 
bility, is  required  by  apothecaries  and  those  persons  who  designate  them- 
selves physicians  (including  surgeons,  oculists,  accoucheurs,  dentists,  and 
veterinary  surgeons)  or  by  equivalent  titles,  or  who  are  recognized  as 
such  by  the  State,  or  by  a  community,  or  who  are  to  be  clothed  with 
official  functions.  The  license  shall  not  be  made  dependent  upon  the 
previous  academical  promotion  to  the  Doctorate. 
"The  Federal  Council  is  to  designate,  in  regard  to  existing  wants  in 
different  parts  of  the  Confederation,  those  authorities  who  are  authorized 
to  confer  licenses  valid  throughout  its  limits,  and  to  prescribe  the  direc- 
tions concerning  the  proofs  of  capability,  and  to  publish  in  the  official 
newspapers  the  names  of  the  licentiates. 
"  Licentiates  will  not  be  restricted  in  their  choice  of  a  locality  to  prac- 
tice their  profession,  except  by  the  regulations  for  the  establishment  and 
moving  of  apothecaries'  stores  now  existing. 
"  The  Federal  Council  may  relieve  persons  from  the  examination  in 
consequence  of  approved  scientific  standing. 
"  All  persons  who  before  the  enactment  of  the  proposed  law  had  a 
legal  right  to  practice  in  any  State  of  the  Confederation  shall^be  regard- 
ed as  licensed  for  the  whole  Confederation." 
The  latter  section  was  approved  by  the  Medical  Society  of  Berlin,  and 
