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Editorial. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharai. 
June,  1887. 
On  syrup  of  ferric  oxide  ;  indigenous  medicinal  plants ;  on  tobacco  and  on 
gelsemium.  The  endeavor  to  secure  the  enactment  of  a  pharmacy  law 
for  the  State  was  not  successful,  but  the  efforts  will  be  continued.  It  is  con- 
templated to  establish  a  College  of  Pharmacy  in  connection  with  the  med- 
ical college  of  Tulane  University.  The  officers  elected  for  the  ensuing 
year  are  :  C.  L.  Keppler,  president;  W.  Carson  and- J.  C.  Godbold,  vice-pres- 
idents :  L.  F.  Chalin,  secretary ;  L.  B.  Lavigne,  treasurer  :  and  Mrs.  E.  Ru- 
dolph, corresponding  secretary.  The  next  meeting  will  again  be  held  in 
New  Orleans  April  11, 1888. 
Nebraska  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.  The  sixth  annual  meeting  was 
held  in  Omaha  May  10-12th,  President  James  Reed  in  the  chair.  The  us- 
ual reports  of  officers  and  committees  were  read,  and  considerable  promi- 
nence was  given  to  the  pharmacy  law  which  was  recently  passed,  and  a  reso- 
lution was  passed  without  a  dissenting  vote,  requesting  the  Board  of  Phar- 
macy to  recognize  diplomas  of  reputable  Colleges  of  Pharmacy  requiring 
four  years'  practical  experience. 
The  membership  exceeds  500,  about  120  having  been  elected  at  this  meet- 
ing. 
Papers  were  read  on  "  pharmaceutical  education,''  by  Rob.  J.  Brown,  and 
on  ''commercial  pressed  herbs,"  by  H.  D.  Boyden.  Honorary  member?  were 
elected  as  follows:  R  J.  Brown,  Leavenworth,  Kan.,  and  Professors  P. 
W.  Bedford,  J.  M.  Maisch,  J.  P.  Remington,  S.  P.  Sadtler  and  0.  A.  Wall. 
The  officers  for  the  ensuing  year  are:  M.  E  Schultz,  president  :  C.  H. 
Bruner,  P.  C.  Corrigan,  W.  B.  Shryock,  W.  P.  Haller  and  W.  P.  Hughes, 
vice-presidents  ;  C.  J.  Daubach,  secretary ;  J.  Forsyth,  treasurer,  and  W. 
C.  Lane,  local  secretary.  The  next  meeting  will  be  held  at  Lincoln,  May 
8th,  1888.   
EDITORIAL  DEPARTMENT. 
Retirement  of  Professor  Robert  Bentley. — At  the  meeting  of  the 
Council  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain  held  May  4th, 
a  letter  from  Professor  Bentley  was  read  intimating  his  intention  to 
resign  the  professsorship  at  the  termination  of  the  present  session. 
Action  on  this  communication  was  deferred  to  a  subsequent  meeting. 
Mr.  Bentley  was  a  student  in  the  School  of  the  Pharmaceutical 
Society,  and  at  the  examination  in  1842  was  awarded  the  single  prize 
then  offered  by  the  Society.  While  Lecturer  on  Botany  at  the  London 
Hospital  in  1849,  he  undertook  also  to  finish  the  course  of  lectures  on 
the  Society's  School,  interrupted  by  the  illness  and  death  of  Prof.  A. 
T.  Thomson,  whose  successor  Mr.  Bentley  became  in  the  same  year. 
When,  in  July  1851,  Prof.  Pereira  retired  from  the  chair  of  Materia 
Medica,  Mr.  Bentley  was  appointed  Professor  of  Materia  Medica  and 
Botany,  the  two  courses  being  united  into  one.  In  this  capacity  he 
has  labored  to  the  present  day. 
