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tained  up  to  the  time  for  adjournment.  The  address  of  the  Chair- 
man, Charles  H.  La  Wall  was  upon  the  subject  of  Education  and 
Pharmacy  and  is  published  in  full  in  the  American  Druggist  for 
May  9,  1910,  p.  288.  Nearly  twenty-five  papers  were  presented 
in  addition  to  which  there  was  a  joint  session  of  the  section  with 
the  National  Association  of  Boards  of  Pharmacy  and  American 
Conference  of  Pharmaceutical  Faculties. 
The  following  officers  of  this  section  were  elected  for  the 
ensuing  year :  Chairman,  Charles  W.  Johnson ;  Secretary,  W.  J. 
Teeters ;  Associates,  J.  W.  Sturmer,  Philip  Asher  and  J.  C.  Wallace. 
The  Historical  Section  held  a  single  session  with  the  Chairman, 
E.  G.  Eberle,  in  the  chair.  To  the  student  of  the  Association  and 
he  who  is  the  veteran  in  matters  pharmaceutical  these  sessions  are 
acknowledged  to  be  to-day  an  essential  part  of  the  work  of  the 
Association.  The  papers  of  E.  V.  Howell  on  the  pioneer  botanists 
of  the  United  States  are  always  stimulating  and  refreshing.  The 
letters  of  great  pharmacists,  the  historical  data  relating  to  the 
Boards  of  Pharmacy  and  the  State  Pharmaceutical  Associations, 
and  the  papers  on  historical  subjects,  which  are  pouring  into  the 
Association  each  year  require  that  the  Association  very  soon  enter 
upon  some  plan  for  the  erection  of  a  permanent  building  where 
these  documents  may  be  conserved  and  made  available  to  the 
members. 
The  Historian,  Edward  Kremers,  presented  a  report  in  which 
he  again  recommended  the  creation  of  the  office  of  Librarian  and 
suggested  "  that  the  numerous  officers  of  the  Association  file  such 
portions  of  their  correspondence  and  other  documents,  as  might  be 
of  value,  with  the  Historian,  when  they  are  through  with  this 
material."  He  also  suggested  that  some  steps  be  taken  to  secure 
the  deposit  and  permanent  care  of  the  valuable  documents  that 
must  have  been  accumulated  by  the  chairmen  of  the  several  revision 
committees  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia  in  some  place  where  they 
will  be  generally  available  both  to  the  medical  and  pharmaceutical 
professions.  The  officers-elect  of  the  Historical  Section  for  1910- 
191 1  are:  Chairman,  J.  L.  Lemberger;  and  Secretary,  Otto  Raub- 
enheimer. 
The  Commercial  Section  held  two  sessions  with  the  Chairman 
Waldo  M.  Bowman  presiding.  The  chairman's  address  dealt  with 
the  subject  of  the  "  Purification  of  Commercial  Pharmacy,"  in 
which  he  directed  attention  to  "  the  need  of  elevating  the  standards 
