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Editorial. 
\  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I     October,  1904. 
The  last  part  of  the  address  was  devoted  to  the  consideration  of 
a  possible  association  which  should  fulfil  a  double  function — that 
of  giving  a  practical  training  to  future  technical  chemists,  and  that 
of  encouraging  invention. 
NATIONAL  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATIONS. 
During  the  months  of  August  and  September,  three  national 
meetings  of  special  interest  to  pharmacists  were  held,  viz.:  the 
thirty-third  Annual  Conference  of  the  Deutscher  Apotheker- 
Verein,  at  Hamburg ;  the  forty-first  Annual  Meeting  of  the  British 
Pharmaceutical  Conference,  at  Sheffield  ;  and  the  fifty-second  An- 
nual Meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  at 
Kansas  City. 
The  meeting  in  Hamburg  was  held  in  connection  with  an  exhi- 
bition of  chemical  and  pharmaceutical  products  and  apparatus,  and 
was  attended  by  representatives  from  Austria-Hungary  and  Holland. 
The  meeting  was  in  the  main  devoted  to  the  consideration  of  the 
education  of  pharmacists  and  to  pharmaceutical  legislation. 
The  question  of  the  educational  requirements  was  brought  up  on 
behalf  of  the  council  by  Dr.  Bedall.  The  government  examination, 
which  became  operative  on  October  1st,  requires  a  "  prima  "  grade 
of  certificate  as  a  condition  of  entrance  to  pharmacy ;  whereas  the 
Society  had  previously  sought  the  introduction  of  the  "  maturum  " 
grade.  A  resolution  was  submitted  to  the  effect  that  it  was  the 
sense  of  the  meeting  that  the  requirement  of  a  "  prima"  grade  of 
certificate  was  only  a  temporary  provision,  which  would  soon  be 
followed  by  the  requirement  of  a  certificate  of  a  gymnasium  or  a 
real  gymnasium. 
The  meeting  of  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference  must  be 
voted  a  success.  The  presidential  address  of  T.  H.  W.  Idris  on 
"A  Year's  Progress  in  Pharmacy,"  showed  that  the  speaker  had  the 
best  interests  of  British  pharmacy  at  heart.  There  were  some 
fifteen  papers  presented,  most  of  which  elicited  a  considerable 
amount  of  discussion,  and  some  of  these  we  hope  to  abstract  later  on. 
It  will  be  seen  from  the  account  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Ameri- 
can Pharmaceutical  Association,  published  elsewhere  in  this  number, 
that  the  Association  is  alive  to  the  best  interests  of  American 
pharmacy. 
