372        Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations.      {Am  f887.rm' 
The  Mississippi  State  Phi  r  mace  utic%l  Association  convened  at  its  fourth 
annual  meeting  in  the  Senate  Chamber  in  Jackson,  May  17.  Besides  receiv- 
ing and  discussing  the  usual  reports  of  officers  the  interest  centered  in  the 
discussion  on  the  proposed  pharmacy  law,  and  on  the  endeavors  to  secure 
for  it  the  support  of  the  members  of  the  legislature,  a  committee  consisting 
of  one  member  from  eacn  county  being  appointed  for  this  purpose.  The 
officers  elected  for  the  ensuing  year  are:  Byron  Temly,  president;  D.  E. 
Holt,  vice-president;  H.  F.  West,  secretary,  and  J.  B.  Dudley,  treasurer. 
The  next  meeting  will  take  place  at  Meridian,  May  15,  1888. 
The  New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Association  met  at  Paterson,  May  18th  and 
adjourned  to  May  25th  for  holding  its  seventeenth  annual  meeting.  Presi- 
dent Kilmer  read  his  annual  address  making  a  number  of  recommendations 
which  were  favorably  reported  upon  by  a  committee  and  then  approved  by 
the  association.  The  Pharmacy  Board  gave  an  account  of  the  work  during 
the  past  year  and  paid  over  to  the  association  $162  received  in  excess  of  the 
expenditures.  The  total  number  of  registered  pharmacists  in  New  Jersey 
is  1380,  of  whom  129  had  been  added  during  the  year,  83  being  graduates  in 
pharmacy  ;  of  those  examined  by  the  Board  only  36  per  cent,  succeeded  in 
passing.  A  number  of  interesting  papers  were  read,  among  them,  two  by 
Aug.  Drescher  urging  pharmacists  to  qualify  as  analysts  with  the  view  of 
not  only  determining  the  purity  and  quality  of  medicines  prepared  and 
dispensed  by  them,  but  also  for  undertaking  the  examination  of  food  and 
for  toxical  analysis.  Other  papers  treated  of  botanical  subjects,  the  prepara- 
tion of  galenicals,  &c.  A  series  of  resolutions  were  adopted  urging  the  re- 
striction of  the  sale  of  liquors  by  pharmacists  to  their  use  as  medicinal 
agents,  and  in  the  case  of  alcohol  to  its  use  in  chemical,  mechanical  and 
household  arts. 
The  new  officers  are  G  S.  Cook,  Somerville,  president ;  G.  H.  White,  Jer- 
sey City,  and  R.  J.  Shaw,  Plainfield,  vice-presidents;  F.  B.  Kilmer,  New 
Brunswick,  secretary,  and  Wm.  Rust,  New  Brunswick,  treasurer.  The  next 
meeting  will  beheld  in  Morristown,  May  23,  1888. 
During  the  meeting  the  falls  of  the  Passaic  and  a  number  of  the  industrial 
.establishments  of  Paterson  were  visited  by  the  members. 
The  Ohio  State  Pharmaceutical  Association  held  its  ninth  annual  meeting  in 
the  Council  Chamber,  in  Akron,  June  8th  and  9th,  President  Coblentz  in 
the  chair.  The  annual  address  of  the  president  and  the  reports  of  the  sec- 
retary, treasurer,  the  various  committees  and  of  the  State  board  of  phar- 
macy claimed  the  attention  of  the  meeting.  During  the  past  year  the  State 
Board  examined  225  and  passed  102  (48  per  cent.)  as  pharmacists ;  also 
examined  136  and  passed  48  (35 J  per  cent.)  as  assistants. 
Amendments  to  the  by-laws  were  proposed,  creating  a  committee  on 
adulterations,  and  making  members  life  members  on  the  payment  of  $10. 
The  following  officers  were  elected:  S.  E.  Allen,  Akron,  president;  M.  D. 
Fulton,  Bucyrus,  and  G.  W.  Voss,  Cincinnati,  vice-presidents ;  L.  C.  Hopp, 
secretary,  and  Chas.  Huston,  treasurer.  The  next  meeting  will  be  held  in 
Columbus  on  the  second  Tuesday  (13th)  of  June,  1888;  H.  C.  Cook,  local 
