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Owing  to  restricted  space  in  this  Journal  this  year  a  much 
more  condensed  account  of  the  meeting  will  be  given  than  hereto- 
fore has  been  the  custom,  but  we  hope  later  to  present  abstracts, 
at  least,  of  all  the  more  important  papers. 
At  the  opening  session  the  Convention  was  fortunate  in  having 
addresses  of  welcome  by  Hon.  William  H.  Mann,  the  Governor  of 
Virginia,  and  Hon.  D.  C.  Richardson,  the  Mayor  of  Richmond. 
The  addresses  were  responded  to  by  Messrs.  Whelpley  and  Beal, 
respectively.  Greetings  were  also  extended  from  delegates  of  the 
National  Association  of  Retail  Druggists,  the  National  Wholesale 
Druggists'  Association,  the  United  States  Public  Health  and  Marine- 
Hospital  Service,  the  Department  of  Agriculture,  and  the  American 
Medical  Association. 
The  address  of  Dr.  H.  H.  Rusby,  the  President  of  the  Asso- 
ciation, had  been  previously  published  in  the  Bulletin  of  the  Ameri- 
can Pharmaceutical  Association  for  May  (pp.  298-310)  and  so 
the  members  were  fully  prepared  to  consider  it.  It  Avas,  as  stated 
by  Professor  Beal,  chairman  of  the  committee,  to  whom  the 
address  was  referred,  "  a  frank  and  fearless  treatment  of  matters 
which  are  of  vital  concern  to  the  Association."  Some  ten  or 
eleven  of  the  recommendations  dealing  with  methods  of  increasing 
the  membership,  the  efficiency  of  the  committees  of  the  Association, 
and  pharmacopceial  principles  were  approved  by  the  Association. 
A  number  of  the  subjects  discussed  by  President  Rusby  are  deserv- 
ing the  further  attention  of  those  concerned  in  the  development 
and  coordination  of  the  work  of  the  several  bodies  that  are  each 
striving,  more  or  less  independently,  to  attain  the  highest  degree 
of  usefulness.  While  the  Association  was  not  prepared  to  con- 
sider the  desirability  and  practicability  of  the  publication  of  the 
National  Formulary  by  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopceial  Convention,  there 
must  be  sooner  or  later  a  closer  affiliation  between  the  com- 
mittees having  in  charge  the  N.F.  and  U.S. P.  Again  in  calling 
"  attention  to  the  great  desirability  of  the  imposition  of  some 
educational  and  professional  requirements  with  a  corresponding 
license,  for  those  engaging  in  commerce  in  drugs  and  medicines," 
President  Rusby  has  presented  a  problem  for  the  Committee  on 
National  Legislation  which  seems  to  be  of  a  fundamental  nature. 
In  considering  the  subject  of  "  danger  of  commercialization  " 
Dr.  Rusby,  however,  handled  a  "  live  wire  "  which  at  the  present 
time  is  a  subject  for  discussion.   The  Committee  on  the  President's 
