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Treasurer,  E.  P.  Gait,  Selma.    The  next  meeting  will  be  held  at  Tuscaloosa, 
May  13,  1890. 
The  Arkansas  Association  of  Pharmacists  held  its  seventh  annual  meet-* 
ing  at  Little  Rock  on  June  11-13,  called  to  order  by  President  Kerr.  The 
president's  address  was  mainly  devoted  to  the  causes  that  defeated  the  phar- 
macy law  at  the  last  session  of  the  Legislature,  and  to  suggestions  which 
would  lead  to  the  passage  of  a  law  at  the  next  session.  A  committee  was 
authorized  to  prepare  a  line  of  pharmaceuticals  made  according  to  the 
National  Formulary  to  be  exhibited  before  the  State  Medical  Society.  The 
papers  read  at  the  meetings  were  :  Some  of  the  Difficulties  in  Compound- 
ing Prescriptions  by  John  Laird ;  Chemistry  and  Some  of  its  Pigments  by 
E.  T.  Mitchell  and  Syrups  by  Percolation  by  J.  A.  Jungkind.  The  officers 
were  re-elected  for  the  ensuing  year,  and  are  :  President,  W.  W.  Kerr, 
Batesville;  Vice-Presidents,  J.  E.  Gibson,  Little  Rock,  and  E.  E.  Shendall, 
Hot  Springs ;  Secretary,  J.  W.  Beidelman  and  Treasurer,  E.  P.  Shaer,  both  of 
Little  Rock.  Pine  Bluff  was  selected  for  the  place  of  meeting  one  year 
hence. 
Proceedings  of  the  Connecticut  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  the  thirteenth 
annual  meeting  &c,  8vo.  Pp.  99. 
A  brief  account  of  the  transactions  will  be  found  on  page  222  of  our  April 
number.  Next  meeting  at  Danbury,  February  4  and  5,  1890 ;  F.  G.  Bodine, 
local  secretary. 
The  Delaware  Pharmaceutical  Association  met  in  Wilmington,  May  2. 
Trade  interests  and  the  pharmacy  law  were  the  main  topics  discussed.  The 
executive  officers  were  re-elected  for  the  current  year,  viz. :  H.  R.  Bring- 
hurst,  president;  J.  M.  Harvey,  secretary;  J.  J.  Gallagher,  treasurer,  and 
H.  C.  Moore,  local  secretary,  all  of  Wilmington. 
The  Kansas  Pharmaceutical  Association  assembled  at  its  tenth  annual 
meeting  in  Atchison,  May  15th,  President  W.  W.  Naylor  in  the  chair.  The 
president's  address  and  the  reports  of  officers  and  committees  were  received 
and  action  taken  thereon.  Among  the  papers  read  the  following  may  ho 
mentioned:  Medicated  waters,  by  R.  L.  Igel;  commercial  quinine,  by 
E.  L.  Beckers  ;  commercial  caustic  soda  and  potash,  by  G.  F.  Weida;  com- 
mercial alum,  by  Mary  A.  Rice;  cocaine,  by  W.  P.  Brown  ;  adulterations 
and  impurities,  by  H.  L.  Raymond ;  organic  compounds  and  calomel,  by 
Professor  E.  J3.  Baily ;  on  the  National  Formulary,  by  C.  L.  Condery  and  F. 
Edel ;  coloring  matters  of  red  saunders,  by  H.  M.  Curry  ;  Pharmaceutical 
Education,  by  Professor  L.  E.  Sayre.  The  officers  elected  to  serve  for  the 
present  year  are  J.  P.  Allen,  Wichita,  president;  C.  D.  Barnes  and  S. 
H.  Horner,  vice-presidents ;  J.  T.  Moore,  Lawrence,  secretary ;  A.  T. 
Waggoner,  Topeka,  assistant  secretary,  and  H.  W.  Mehl,  Leavenworth, 
treasurer. 
The  Kentucky  Pharmaceutical  Association  held  its  twelfth  annual  meeting, 
May  15  and  16,  at  the  Crab  Orchard  Springs,  President  _W.  F.  Johnson  in  the 
chair.  The  President's  address  and  the  reports  of  officers  and  committees  were 
received.  An  amendment  to  the  pharmacy  law  was  recommended,  extend- 
ing its  provisions  to  towns  of  100  inhabitants.    The  subject  of  cut  prices 
