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Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy  Delegates. — Baltimore,  June 
19^/i,  1869. — Editor  American  Journal  Pharmacy— *S'^r  :  At  a  meeting  of 
Maryland  Colleg-e  of  Pharmacy,  held  on  Thursday,  June  10th,  the  fol- 
lowing persons  were  elected  delegates  to  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  which  meets  in  Chicago,  September  7th,  1869. 
Geo.W,  Andrews, 
J.  F.  Moore, 
J.  F.  Hancock, 
E.  N.  EUSSELL, 
N.  H.  Jennings. 
J.  J.  Smith,  Secretary, 
Md.  College  Pharmacy, 
The  Drug  Law. — The  joint  committees  of  the  County  Medical  Society, 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  the  College  of  Pharmacy,  of  this  city, 
have  not  as  yet  determined  on  any  course  of  action  regarding  the  passage 
of  a  law  against  the  adulteration  of  drugs  and  the  regulation  of  the  prac- 
tice of  pharmacy.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  committee  of  the  Pharmaceu- 
tical Association  having  the  matter  in  charge  will  report  a  wise  and  salutary 
law  that  will  reach  the  evils  proposed  to  be  remedied.  The  best  light  we 
can  get  at,  individually,  disposes  us  to  believe  that  the  subject  of  adul- 
terations will  be  best  approached  by  a  separate  law,  whilst  the  practice 
of  pharmacy,  including  the  sale  of  poisons,  should  be  made  the  subject  of 
a  special  act.  If  a  State  law  cannot  be  had,  as  is  said  to  be  true,  then 
have  it  applicable  to  Philadelphia,  and  prospectively  to  make  it  requisite 
for  every  practitioner  to  have  a  certificate  of  qualification.  As  to  the 
law  against  adulterations  provision  must  be  made  for  substantiating 
accusation  by  chemical  analysis  and  other  positive  evidences,  else  the 
law  will  be  tyranical  and  unjustly  administered,  or  it  will  be  a  dead  letter. 
Pharmacy  in  Italy. — We  learn  through  the  Journal  de  Pharmacie 
that  the  Minister  of  the  Interior  of  Italy,  in  his  official  report,  states  the 
number  of  pharmaceutical  shops  in  that  kingdom  to  be  10,005,  which  is 
equivalent  to  one  for  every  2426  inhabitants.  The  papal  dominion,  em- 
bracing 800,000  inhabitants,  has  302  shops,  making  10,307  for  all  Italy. 
Metrical  Weight  in  England. — At  the  meeting  of  the  Pharmaceuti- 
cal Society,  held  April  7th,  Prof.  Eedwood  brought  forward  the  subject 
of  metrical  weights  for  pharmacy  as  a  subject  for  discussion,  and  introduced 
it  with  explanatory  remarks  evidently  favoring  their  ultimate  adoption  ; 
but  forseeing  the  numerous  troubles  in  practice  that  would  arise  during 
the  transition  period  required  to  get  the  public  accustomed  to  the  new 
quantities,  he  proposes,  as  a  temporary  compromise,  to  bend  the  avoir- 
dupois to  the  decimal,  so  as  to  make  a  new  weight  of  61*7  grains,  which 
