480  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {As^pi°mber,hi89™' 
A  CHEMICAL  BIBLIOGRAPHY  OF  MORPHINE. 
By  A.  B.  Prescott  and  H.  E.  Brown. 
By  special  action,  a  paper  on 
THE  EFFECT  OF  TEMPERATURE  UPON  PERCOLATION. 
By  H.  DeForrest  Smith, 
a  non-member,  was  received.    These  papers  were  referred  to  the  Publication 
Committee.    On  motion,  the  meeting  adjourned  at  10  a.m.  Immediately  after 
this  action  the 
SECOND  SESSION  OF  THE  SCIENTIFIC  SECTION 
was  convened  by  the  Chairman.  The  reading  of  the  minutes  of  the  first  session 
was  dispensed  with.  On  account  of  the  small  number  of  members  in  attend- 
ance, the  election  of  officers  was  postponed  until  the  evening  session,  and  at 
10.07  A-M-  the  second  session  adjourned,  so  the  audience  could  overtake  the 
trolley  party. 
The 
THIRD  SESSION  OF  THE  SCIENTIFIC  SECTION 
was  called  to  order  by  Chairman  Alpers  at  8.30  p.m.,  on  Thursday,  August  26th. 
Upon  motion,  the  reading  of  the  minutes  of  the  second  session  was  dispensed 
with.  Prof.  Good  then  took  the  chair,  while  Mr.  Alpers  read  his  address.  In 
reply  to  the  remark  not  infrequently  heard,  "  Pharmacy  has  ceased  to  be  a 
science  ;  it  is  a  mere  trade,  and  a  poor  one  at  that,"  the  author  discussed  the 
topic:  "Is  there  Science  in  Pharmacy?"  He  believed  that  the  commercial 
admixture  in  American  pharmacy  predominates  over  the  scientific  part  to  such 
an  extent  that  the  latter  is  nearly  or  entirely  concealed. 
Driven  by  competition  into  a  state  of  nervous  agitation,  often  bordering  on 
recklessness,  he  thought  it  no  wonder  that  pharmacists  sometimes  ignored  their 
professional  standing,  and  plunged  into  the  strife  for  mere  commercial  supre- 
macy ;  and,  said  the  speaker,  what  is  the  worst  sign  of  the  times  from  the  point 
of  view  of  the  question — "  Is  there  Science  in  Pharmacy?  " — is  that  the  men 
who  conduct  their  business  on  these  lines  are,  as  a  rule,  the  most  successful 
ones,  if  the  gaining  of  wealth  is  to  be  the  sole  evidence  of  success.  He  pointed 
to  the  well-known  fact  that  many  pharmacists  do  not  make  the  preparations 
and  chemicals  which  they  handle,  and  mainly  because  of  the  capital  required 
for  investment,  and  because  of  the  protection  which  copyright  laws  provide  for 
so  many  articles  in  use  at  present.  He  said  the  time  is  fast  approaching  when 
the  pharmo-chemical  and  pharmacal  manufacturing  industries,  with  their  bound- 
less array  of  capital  and  superior  resources,  will  have  rendered  the  pharmacist's 
modest  laboratory,  in  every  productive  direction,  not  only  wholly  superfluous, 
but,  indeed,  absurd. 
He  said  science  in  pharmacy  is  to-day  like  the  princess  in  the  fairy  tale, 
lying  spellbound  under  noxious  weeds  and  thorns,  awaiting  her  delivery.  He 
foresaw  a  division  of  pharmacists  into  two  classes,  not  hostile  to  each  other, 
but  mutual  coadjutors  in  their  respective  lines  of  work,  and  supplementing  one 
another.  One  class  is  to  look  after  the  purely  commercial  side  of  the  drug 
business  as  now  conducted,  and  handle  the  so-called  "side  lines,"  while  the 
scientific  part  of  pharmacy  is  to  be  conducted  by  those  who  fit  themselves  for 
the  compounding  of  prescriptions,  the  sale  of  drugs,  the  assaying  and  standard- 
