490  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {A™v5ber^imm' 
The  Consideration  of  Alkaloids  in  Schools  of  Pharmacy. 
By  W.  A.  Puckner. 
The  author  discusses  the  desirability  of  discarding  the  teaching 
of  isolated  facts  relating  to  alkaloids,  and  bringing  out  more  promi- 
nently the  relations  of  the  alkaloids  to  ammonia  and  to  the  alkali 
metals  in  their  chemical  properties. 
The  Appreciable  Advantages  of  Higher  and  Uniform  Entrance 
Requirements  to  Colleges  of  Pharmacy. 
By  Albert  Schneider. 
In  this  paper  Professor  Schneider  refers  to  the  improvements  that 
must  necessarily  result  from  the  introduction  of  higher  and  more 
uniform  entrance  requirements  to  colleges  of  pharmacy. 
The  Requirement  of  Graduation  from  a  High  School  Before 
Admission  to  Colleges  of  Pharmacy,  and  of  Graduation  from 
a  College  of  Pharmacy  Before  Registration  as  a  Pharmacist. 
By  J.  H.  Beal. 
Professor  Beal  in  this  paper  referred  to  the  difficulty  of  suggesting 
a  standard  of  entrance  qualification  that  would  be  acceptable  to  all 
colleges  of  pharmacy  until  graduation  from  a  college  of  pharmacy 
is  required  by  law  in  all  of  the  several  States. 
The  Prerequisite  Law  in  New  York. 
By  Caswell  A.  Mayo. 
The  author  outlined  the  provisions  of  the  law  recently  passed  in 
New  York  State,  and  referred  to  the  history  of  the  law  and  of  the 
several  provisions  that  it  contains. 
These  three  papers  were  discussed  simultaneously.  The  discus- 
sion was  rather  spirited,  and  resulted  in  a  motion  to  appoint  a 
special  committee  to  draw  up  or  suggest  a  desirable  prerequisite 
law  that  might  prove  acceptable  in  States  without  a  board  of  regents. 
Geo.  C.  Reimann,  of  the  newly-organized  association  of  State 
Boards  of  Pharmacy,  made  a  short  verbal  report. 
Food  Legislation  as  Affecting  Pharmacy. 
By  R.  G.  Eccles. 
This  paper  was  presented  in  abstract  by  the  author,  who  asserted 
that  food  preservatives  were  not  harmful,  as  was  sometimes  sup- 
posed. 
