A  j;mm?y,Pi902m'}     State  Pharmaceutical  Associations.  9 
with  care  of  course  for  trade  interests  and  the  social  side  thrown  in, 
as  is  justly  proper  for  the  recreation  that  a  relaxing  from  business 
cares  so  freely  welcomes.  There  is  no  doubt  that  organization  has 
tended  to  unite  pharmacists  of  the  several  States  into  closer  fellow- 
ship, and  we  find  some  of  the  most  intelligent,  influential  and  dis- 
tinguished members  of  the  profession  in  all  the  States  actively 
identified,  whose  influence  has  largely  stimulated  earnest  study  and 
research,  resulting  in  numerous  contributions  of  valuable  informa- 
tion that  will  take  permanent  place  in  pharmaceutical  literature,  and 
the  records  of  some  of  the  annual  deliberations  are  akin  to  veritable 
pharmacopoeias  of  information. 
State  associations  have  by  their  delegates  added  to  the  pharma- 
copoeia revision  commissions,  they  have  sent  strong  appeals  to 
National  and  State  Legislatures,  they  have  framed  and  caused  to  be 
enacted  pharmacy  laws ;  in  fact,  such  associations  are  known  to  con- 
stitute a  body,  when  thoroughly  united,  making  a  potent  factor  in 
the  advancement  of  the  very  best  interests  for  our  common  good, 
and  can  be  made  a  still  more  formidable  influence  if  wisely 
managed. 
We  may  be  pardoned  if  in  the  concluding  section  of  this  paper— 
"  The  Influence  of  State  Associations" — we  allow  ourselves  to  asso- 
ciate as  our  ideal  the  organization  with  which  some  of  the  audience 
stand  closely  connected  ;  the  application  can  well  be  made  general ; 
other  State  organizations  may  be  as  efficient — we  doubt  whether  in 
personnel  or  influence  they  are  superior.  Early  in  its  history  the 
ambition  was  to  be  in  touch  with  all  phases  of  the  druggist's  occu- 
pation, and  at  one  of  the  earliest  meetings  it  contemplated  the  for- 
mation of  a  committee  on  trade  interests.  The  thought  was  also 
promulgated  that  the  State  Association  in  its  corporate  capacity 
mi^ht  take  a  part  in  the  American  Pharmaceutical  affairs  and,  as  a 
natural  consequence,  it  and  some,  if  not  all  our  sister  organizations, 
always  send  delegates  to  the  national  bodies.  Some  of  them,  and 
notably  the  Pennsylvania,  are  in  friendly  communication  with  the 
Medical  Society  of  the  State.  The  delegates  are  always  welcomed 
and  influences  exerted  that  bring  those  kindred  bodies  into  closer 
union,  a  condition  of  affairs  as  we  all  remember  which  did  not 
exist  to  the  same  extent  until  recent  years.  How  can  we  estimate 
the  far-reaching  work  of  such  men  as  Squibb,  Rice,  Maisch,  Trimble 
and  others  that  could  be  named,  whose  memory  we  delight  to 
