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EDITORIAL. 
from  the  usual  rate  of  board  has  been  arranged  for.  Visitors,  in  placing 
their  names  upon  the  hotel  register,  will  therefore  affix  the  initials  "  A. 
P.  A."  in  addition  to  their  signatures.  The  seventeenth  annual  meeting, 
it  is  expected,  will  be  the  most  important  in  its  beariiig  upon  Pharmacy 
that  has  ever  been  held.  The  important  question  of  the  legal  aspect  of 
Pharmacy  will  be  carefully  considered,  and  some  definite  action  probably 
taken  thereupon. 
The  proximity  of  the  decennial  revision  of  the  United  States  Pharma- 
copoeia will  also  give  importance  to  the  deliberations  of  the  convention. 
Essays  and  volunteer  papers,  and  applications  for  membership  may  be 
sent  to  the  undersigned.  Specimens  of  materia  medica,  chemical  and 
pharmaceutical  preparations,  plants,  apparatus,  etc.,  are  solicited  for  ex- 
hibition, and  may  be  sent  to  Henry  W,  Fuller,  local  secretary  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  in  care  of  Fuller,  Finch  &  Fuller, 
No.  24  Market  street. 
As  this  will  be  the  first  meeting  of  the  association  in  this  section  of  the 
country,  it  is  hoped  that  a  large  representation  of  Western  druggists  will 
be  brought  together. 
I  am,  sir,  yours  truly, 
ALBERT  E.  EBERT, 
Chairman  of  the  Reception  Committee,  cor.  State  and  Twelfth  streets. 
St.  Louis  College  of  Pharmacy. — We  are  informed  by  Justin  Steer, 
Secretary,  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  St.  Louis  College  of  Pharmacy,  held 
June  28th,  1869,  the  following  members  were  elected  as  delegates  to  the 
meeting  of  the  Association,  to  be  held  at  Chicago,  Sept.  7th  next,  viz. : — 
Dr.  J.  S.  B.  Alleyne, 
Dr.  0.  F.  Potter, 
Dr.  C.  L.  Lipps, 
Mr.  A.  H.  Weber, 
Mr.  Wm.  H.  Crawford. 
The  Prescription  of  Explosive  Mixtures  by  Physicians. — A  cor- 
respondent who  feels  himself  much  aggrieved,  informs  us  that  a  few 
months  since  he  suffered  severe  personal  injury  by  the  explosion  of  the 
ingredients  of  a  prescription,  of  which  the  following  is  a  copy  :— 
"  R  Potassae  Chloratis  ^iss. 
Acidi  Tannic!  ^iss. 
Olei  Gaultheriae  gtt.  xx. 
Mice  ft  Pulvis  I 
Sig.    Put  in  a  quart  of  water." 
