352  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  {Amiu^ri9iP0harm- 
Mr.  Blair,  referring  to  Mr.  Walton's  question  as  to  whether 
Pennsylvania  ought  to  have  a  stringent  morphine  law,  said  that  in 
his  store,  which  is  a  very  old  one  and  owned  successively  by  his 
grandfather,  his  father  and  himself,  no  morphine  had  been  sold 
over  the  counter  for  three  generations,  and  that  at  the  present  time 
he  does  not  sell  laudanum  over  the  counter.  He  gave  it  as  his 
opinion  that  morphine  should  not  be  sold  to  habitues,  and  said  that 
he  would  favor  a  stringent  law  provided  that  it  could  be  enforced. 
He  said  that  there  were  eight  habitues  of  the  drug  in  his  block,  one 
of  them  being  a  total  wreck,  but  that  none  of  them  ever  came  into 
his  store  for  the  drug. 
Following  the  discussion  of  Mr.  Heffner's  paper  Professor 
Kraemer  called  attention  to  the  circular  letter  which  had  been  sent 
out  by  Dr.  Reid  Hunt,  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  U.  S.  Pharma- 
copoeia of  the  American  Medical  Association,  asking  for  opinions 
regarding  the  function  and  scope  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  and  as  to 
the  general  principles  which  should  govern  admissions  and  deletions. 
Those  taking  part  in  the  discussion  of  the  questions  formulated  in 
the  circular  were  Dr.  Horatio  C.  Wood,  Jr.,  Dr.  George  D.  Rosen- 
garten,  F.  M.  Apple,  Professor  Kraemer  and  Mr.  Blair. 
Methods  for  increasing  the  attendance  at  the  annual  meetings  of 
the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association  were  discussed  by 
Messrs.  Lee,  Blair,  Campbell,  Boring,  Lowe,  Osterlund  and  Weide- 
mann. 
At  the  close  of  the  discussion,  Professor  Kraemer  called  atten- 
tion to  a  growing  plant  of  Sarracenia  vario  which  had  been  sent 
from  Tampa,  Fla.,  by  Hamilton  Russell,  P.D.,  and  to  one  of  a  fossil 
fern  obtained  from  the  coal  mines  of  Shenandoah,  Pa.,  and  presented 
by  Roy  Hughes,  a  student  of  the  College. 
A  vote  of  thanks  was  tendered  the  speakers  of  the  afternoon  and 
the  donors  of  the  specimens. 
Florence  Yaple, 
Secretary  pro  tern. 
