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f  Am.  Jour.  Ph'arni 
(  September,  1910. 
official  preparations.  This  exhibit,  and  a  somewhat  similar  ex- 
hibition from  the  chemical  laboratory  of  the  American  Medical 
Association,  elicited  considerable  attention  and  both  were  favorably 
commented  on  by  the  physicians  who  saw  them. 
British  Pharmaceutical  Conference. — The  forty-seventh 
annual  meeting  of  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference  was  held 
in  the  town  of  Cambridge  during  the  week  of  July  25,  1910.  The 
meeting  has  been  designated  as  one  of  the  best  of  recent  years  and 
from  the  published  reports  it  would  appear  that  it  brings  with  it 
very  marked  changes  in  the  association  work  of  British  pharma- 
cists. The  presidential  address  by  Air.  Francis  Ransom  is  a 
contribution  of  unusual  merit  and  well  worthy  of  careful  study  by 
American  pharmacists. 
The  papers,  according  to  the  established  custom,  are  reported 
at  length  in  the  pharmaceutical  journals  and  while  not  numerous 
they  indicate  careful  study  and  are  full}-  representative  of  the  scien- 
tific attainments  of  British  pharmacists. 
The  paper  on  Liquid  Extract  of  Ergot,  by  J.  H.  Franklin,  with 
results  of  physiological  tests  made  by  G.  S.  Haynes,  is  a  par- 
ticularly timely  one  and  indicative  of  the  tremendous  field  for 
research  and  study  that  is  available  to  pharmacists  at  the  present 
time. 
Several  papers  were  devoted  to  the  bacteriological  testing  of 
disinfectants,  the  object  being  to  evolve,  if  possible,  a  method  for  the 
standardization  of  disinfectants.  The  president,  in  his  address, 
points  out  that  the  difficulties  met  with  in  the  investigation  appear 
to  be  as  great,  and  even  greater,  than  those  encountered  in  the 
standardization  of  drugs.  Neither  the  chemical  nor  the  bacterio- 
logical processes  which  hitherto  have  been  dew'sed  seem  to  be 
applicable  in  all  cases,  although  for  specific .  purposes  comparisons 
of  efficiency  may  be  deduced. 
The  social  features  of  the  meeting  were,  as  usual,  quite  numer- 
ous, and  the  week's  gatherings  are  generally  considered  to  have 
been  a  complete  success.  The  next  annual  meeting  will  be  at 
Portsmouth  and  the  president  elected  to  preside  at  that  meeting  is 
W.  F.  Wells,  of  Dublin.  • 
Federation  of  Local  Pharmaceutical  Associations  of 
Great  Britain. — A  news  note  points  out  that  at  the  meeting  of  this 
association,  held  in  Cambridge,  on  Tuesday.  July  26,  it  was  re- 
solved to  recommend  that  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference 
