376  Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations.  { ^"'ju^jy^'igsi 
Alumni  Association  of  the  Saint  Louis  College  of  Pharmacy. — 
At  the  scieiitilic  meeting,  held  on  the  evening  of  June  21st,  at  the  College 
rooms,  a  lecture  was  delivered  by  Dr.  O.  H.  Wall  upon  the  subject  of 
Trichinae.  Dr.  Wall  had  brought  a  number  of  specimens,  and  the  interest 
of  the  lecture  was  heightened  by  the  microscopic  views  afforded  to  the 
audience.  Esi^ecially  fine  plates  were  some  which  showed  trichinae  encap- 
suled  in  human  fiesh. 
Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association. — The  fourth  annual 
meeting  was  held  at  the  Common  Council  chamber  in  the  city  of  Williams- 
port,  at  4  o'clock  P.M.,  June  14th,  President  G.  W.  Kennedy  in  the  chair. 
Dr.  J.  A.  Miller,  Secretary.  The  association  was  welcomed  be  Mayor  Kel- 
ler, and  Mr.  T.  J.  Macmahon  and  Prof.  P.  W.  Bedford,  of  the  New  York 
State  Pharmaceutical  Association,  were  invited  to  the  privileges  of  the 
floor.  The  President's  annual  address,  w^iich  contained  a  number  of 
excellent  suggestions,  w^as  listened  to  with  great  attention  and  referred  to 
a  committee  for  consideration  and  report.  The  reports  of  the  Secretary, 
Executive  Committee  and  Treasurer  were  presented,  the  latter  showing  a 
balance  on  hand  of  1575.11.  An  Auditing  Committee  and  committees  on 
exhibition  and  on  the  time  and  place  of  next  meeting  were  appointed  and 
38,  and  subsequently  68,  new  members  were  elected.  Pending  the  nomina- 
tion of  officers  for  tl:e  ensuing  year  it  was  resolved  that  nominations  be 
made  in  the  open  meeting,  and  that  no  one  be  eligible  to  President  unless 
having  i)reviously  served  at  least  one  year  as  Vice  President.  The  follow- 
ing were  then  elected:  President,  Geo.  A.  Kelly,  Pittsburg ;  Vice  Persi- 
dents,  Alonzo  Bobbins,  Philadelphia,  and  Jesse  B.  Duble,  Williamsport. 
The  Secretary,  Treasurer  and  Executive  Committee  Avere  re-elected. 
At  the  evening  session  the  new  oflicers  took  their  seats,  after  which  com- 
mittee reports  were  called  up.  Owing  to  the  death  of  the  chairman  of  the 
Committee  on  Legislation  and  Trade  Interests,  no  report  was  received  from 
this  committee,  but  reports  were  read  from  the  Committees  on  Adultera- 
tion and  Sophistication,  on  Papers  and  Queries,  on  Ethics,  and  on  Local 
and  Private  Formulas.  The  code  of  ethics  reported  was  discussed  by  sec- 
tions and  unanimously  adoi:)ted.    It  is  as  follows  : 
code  of  ethics. 
Preamble:  The  members  of  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion, considering  it  necessary  that  some  mutual  understanding  should  exist 
in  regard  to  the  moral  principles  guiding  them  in  their  profession,  hereby 
agree  upon  the  following  Code  of  Ethics: 
I.  We  accept  the  U.  /S.  PharinaGop(ma  as  our  standard  and  guide  for  all 
official  preparations,  and  recognize  a  variance  from  its  rules  only  in  excej)- 
tional  cases,  where  sufficient  authority  has  proven  some  other  process  more 
reliable  to  attain  the  same  end. 
This  section  is  not  intended  to  interfere  with  the  dispensing  of  prescrip- 
tions or  medicines  ordered  in  accordance  with  foreign  pharmacopoeias. 
II.  Although  not  a  legitimate  part  of  our  business,  custom  and  the 
necessity  of  the  times  warrant  us  in  keeping  the  proprietary  medicines  of 
the  day,  yet,  out  of  regard  to  the  medical  profession  and  for  the  protection 
of  the  public,  we  earnestly  recommend  all  pharmacists,  when  called  upon 
for  an  opinion  of  their  merits,  to  discourage  their  use,  and  neither  to  adver- 
tise nor  permit  their  names  to  be  used  in  advertising  such  medicines. 
