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ance  of  the  work  of  the  Sub-committee  on  Proximate  Assays,  which 
should  extend  over  the  entire  period  of  ten  years  following  the  last 
revision,  and  that  the  results  be  reported  from  year  to  year  to  the 
Scientific  Section  of  this  Association.  During  past  revisions  the 
Pharmacopoeia  Committee  has,  as  far  as  the  funds  available  permit- 
ted, carried  on  investigations  in  various  fields,  and  while  we  recog- 
nize the  value  and  desirability  of  more  work  being  concentrated  on 
the  subject  of  proximate  assays,  yet  this  recommendation  will 
largely  depend  upon  the  size  of  the  fund  which  may  accumulate 
after  the  issue  of  the  coming  revision.  We  suppose  that  the  chair- 
man of  the  Committee  of  Revision  will  have  no  objections  to  the 
presentation  of  the  results  of  future  investigations  to  the  Scientific 
Section.  The  criticism  relative  to  the  extreme  rigidity  of  present 
Pharmacopoeia  standards  is  a  point  well  taken  and  fully  recognized 
by  the  Committee  of  Revision,  and  such  errors  of  stringency  will 
certainly  be  corrected." 
Various  reports  were  read  at  the  first  session,  the  first  being  an 
elaborate  report  by  the  Committee  on  Drug  Market,  which  was  pre- 
sented through  the  Chairman,  E.  L.  Patch.  The  report  was  accom- 
panied by  resolutions  relative  to  the  promise  of  support  by  the 
Association  in  the  establishment  of  the  new  drug  laboratory  in  con- 
nection with  the  work  of  the  Bureau  of  Chemistry  of  the  U.  S. 
Department  of  Agriculture.  These  resolutions  were  favorably 
acted  upon  by  the  Section  and  subsequently  by  the  Association. 
Dr.  H.  W.  Wiley,  who  was  present,  spoke  of  the  objects  of  the  new 
drug  laboratory  and  said  that  it  would  be  to  unify  by  association  the 
work  of  pharmaceutical  chemists,  just  as  that  of  agricultural  chem- 
ists had  been  unified  so  that  the  work  of  different  chemists  in  dif- 
ferent places  would  be  comparable. 
The  Ebert  Prize,  it  was  announced,  was  awarded  this  year  to  J. 
O.  Schlotterbeck  and  H.  O.  Watkins  for  their  paper  on  "  The  Alka- 
loids of  Adlumia  Cirrhosa."  At  the  second  session  the  following 
officers  were  elected:  Chairman,  J.  O.  Schlotterbeck,  Ann  Arbor; 
Secretary,  Joseph  \\r.  England,  Philadelphia;  Associate,  Francis 
Hemm,  St.  Louis.  A.  B.  Lyons,  Chairman  of  the  Research  Com- 
mittee of  the  Scientific  Section,  reported  the  work  that- was  being 
done  by  the  various  members,  most  of  which  is  embodied  in  several 
papers  presented  to  the  Section.  The  report  of  the  Special  Com- 
mittee on  the  Revision  of  the  U.S. P.  was  presented  by  the  Chairman, 
