488  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.    { ^o^SSS.^SST 
the  Surgeon-General  of  the  Navy,  favored  making  pharmacists  in  the 
employ  of  the  Navy  commissioned  officers.  Mr.  Wilbert  then  pre- 
sented a  recommendation  to  the  effect  that  the  metric  system  be 
used  whenever  practicable  in  connection  with  the  work  of  the  Asso- 
ciation, which  was  carried.  He  also  moved  that  in  order  to  facili- 
tate the  work  in  the  various  sections,  all  authors  be  required  to 
prepare  written  abstracts  of  their  papers  for  presentation,  which  was 
also  favorably  acted  upon.  The  by-laws  were  amended  so  as  to 
give  each  of  the  sections  two  sessions  each  at  each  meeting  of  the 
Association.  The  recommendation  passed  by  the  Scientific  Section 
approving  the  establishment  of  a  drug  laboratory  by  the  Govern- 
ment was  also  adopted  by  the  Association.  Resolutions  were  passed 
endorsing  the  action  of  the  Scientific  Section  relative  to  "  standard- 
izing dose  measures  "  which  had  been  recently  adopted  at  a  phar- 
maceutical meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  (see  p. 
243  in  the  May  issue  of  this  Journal).  The  report  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Procter  Memorial  was  read  by  the  chairman,  Joseph  P. 
Remington,  in  which  it  was  recommended  that  the  life-membership 
fund  be  known  hereafter  as  the  Procter  Fund,  and  that  a  special 
committee  of  five  be  elected  by  the  council  to  award  a  Procter- 
Squibb  medal  for  high  scientific  attainment.  It  was  also  recom- 
mended that  a  button-badge  having  a  bas-relief  of  Professor  Procter 
be  made  for  those  in  attendance  at  the  annual  meetings.  After 
some  discussion  the  report  was  accepted. 
SCIENTIFIC  SECTION. 
The  time  of  the  Scientific  Section  was  limited  to  two  sessions,  but 
nevertheless  a  large  number  of  papers  were  presented.  Lyman  F. 
Kebler,  the  chairman,  presented  the  annual  address,  which  was 
devoted  to  a  review  of  some  of  the  recent  advances  in  chemistry 
and  to  a  discussion  of  some  pharmacopoeial  problems.  The  speaker 
referred  particularly  to  the  necessity  of  the  adoption  of  uniform 
methods  in  the  assay  of  drugs,  and  recommended  that  the  Sub- 
Committee  on  Proximate  Assay  of  the  Pharmacopoeial  Revision 
Committee  report  the  results  of  their  work  annually  to  the  Scientific 
Section  of  the  A.  Ph.  A. 
The  address  was  referred  to  a  committee  which,  later,  through 
Virgil  Coblentz,  the  chairman,  reported  as  follows :  "  It  is  recom- 
mended that  the  Pharmacopoeia  Committee  authorize  the  continu- 
