318  Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations.  {Amju0nuer/i8?9arm' 
standard  for  the  unofficinal  preparations  contained  therein.  The  Association 
voted  to  contribute  annually  $250  towards  the  salary  of  the  instructor  in 
pharmacy  in  the  Tulane  University.  The  salary  of  the  Secretary  was  fixed  at 
$100.  There  are  473  registered  pharmacists  and  80  qualified  assistants  in 
the  State.  Dr.  Fred.  Hoffmann,  New  York,  and  Professor  C.  L.  Diehl, 
Louisville,  were  elected  honorary  members.  The  officers  for  the  ensuing 
year  are  :  F.  M.  Brooks,  Baton  Bouge,  President ;  J.  B.  Lavigne  and  F.  C. 
Godbold,  Vice-Presidents;  L.  F.  Chalin,  Secretary;  Mrs.  E.  Budolph, 
Corresponding  Secretary,  and  E.  Brand,  Treasurer.  The  next  meeting  will 
be  held  in  New  Orleans,  on  the  first  Wednesday  in  April,  1890. 
The  New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Association  assembled  in  Bridgeton  at  its 
nineteenth  annual  meeting  May  22  and  23,  President  G.  H.  White  in  the 
chair.  Mayor  DuBois  tendered  the  hospitality  and  freedom  of  the  city,  to 
which  the  President  replied.  Among  the  reports  of  officers  was  the  final 
one  of  the  first  treasurer,  the  venerable  William  Rust  of  New  Brunswick, 
who  during  the  nineteen  years  had  received  $5,478.72,  and  paid  out  $5,322.- 
76,  leaving  a  cash  balance  of  $155.96.    Mr.  Rust  declined  a  re-election. 
Greetings  were  exchanged  by  telegraph  with  the  Nebraska  Association, 
then  in  session  in  Lincoln. 
A  Committee  appointed  to  report  on  the  sale  of  liquors  by  pharmacists 
had  secured  the  opinion  of  Hon.  Cortlandt  Parker,  according  to  which 
pharmacists  may  sell  intoxicants  as  a  medicine,  but  not  as  a  beverage  ;  the 
object  of  the  State  laws  was  stated  to  be  to  advance  morals,  and  not  to  re- 
tard human  progress,  and  the  honest  and  prudent  pharmacist  would  have  no 
trouble  in  obeying  those  laws. 
The  Board  of  Pharmacy  reported  for  the  past  year  to  have  registered  55 
pharmacists  on  diplomas,  and  to  have  examined  90  candidates  of  whom  39 
passed ;  the  total  number  of  registered  pharmacists  in  the  State  is  1600. 
Among  the  subjects  presented  under  the  head  of  "  trade  interests  "  was  a 
modification  of  what  is  known  as  the  rebate  plan,  intended  to  prevent  the 
underselling  of  proprietary  articles  ;  it  was  discussed  and  finally  adopted. 
A  report  on  the  revision  of  the  pharmacopoeia  was  discussed  and  adopted; 
the  question  of  weights  and  measures  attracted  particular  attention. 
Several  papers  were  read,  among  others  on  "  The  coloring  of  medicines," 
by  Aug.  Drescher,  and  on  "  Pharmacy  in  Skin  Diseases,  by  F.  B.  Kilmer. 
Visits  were  made  to  several  glass  factories,  and  the  visiting  ladies  enjoyed 
a  drive  through  the  city  and  suburbs. 
Next  year's  meeting  will  be  held  in  Jersey  City.  The  officers  elected  for 
the  present  year  are:  President,  Henry  P.  Thorn, Medford ;  vice-presidents, 
Charles  P.  Kinsella,  Paterson,  and  F.  R.  Davis,  Morristown;  secretary, Charles 
F.  Dare,  Bridgeton ;  treasurer,  William  F.  Townley,  Newark. 
The  Tennessee  Pharmaceutical  Association  met  at  Memphis,  May  8th.  The 
usual  routine  business  was  attended  to.  A  prominent  feature  of  the  trans- 
actions was  the  pharmacy  law  which  failed  to  pass  the  legislature.  F.  J. 
Dowdy,  Memphis,  was  elected  president ;  Secretary  Thompson  and  Treas- 
urer Laurent  of  Nashville  were  re-elected. 
