532  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {Am'octuri8??aroQ' 
representation  on  the  Nominating  Committee,  although  there  may  be  no 
local  pharmaceutical  association  in  the  State. 
The  main  features  of  the  new  arrangement  which  went  into  effect  at 
once,  may  be  stated  as  follows  :  Two  sessions  at  the  beginning  and  the 
terminal  session  of  each  annual  meeting  are  to  be  devoted  to  routine  work 
and  to  general  business.  All  other  subjects  are  to  be  brought  up  before  meet- 
ings specially  arranged  for  this  purpose.  With  this  end  in  view  four  sec- 
tions have  been  created,  on  commercial  interests,  on  scientific  papers,  on 
pharmaceutical  education,  and  on  pharmaceutical  legislation.  Each  sec- 
tion elects  its  own  chairman,  secretary  and  committee  the  latter  to  prepare 
business  for  the  coming  year.  No  money  can  be  appropriated  by  any  sec- 
tion, unless  approved  by  the  Association  in  general  session.  For  the  present 
two  sessions  are  to  be  devoted  to  commercial  interests,  three  to  scientific 
discussions,  and  one  each  to  education  and  legislation,  the  last  two  sections 
to  meet  successively,  or,  in  case  of  necessity,  simultaneously.  A  member  of 
the  Association  may  participate  in  the  deliberations  of  any  one  or  all  of  the 
sections. 
An  effort  was  made  to  amend  the  by-laws  so  as  to  allow  any  one  of  them 
to  be  suspended  by  a  vote  of  three-fourths  of  the  members  present,  but  the 
Association  very  wisely  rejected  this  proposition,  which  might  have  opened 
-the  door  again  for  confusion  similar  to  that  noticed  at  the  meetings  for 
some  years  past,  and  which  the  various  measures  adopted  of  late  years  were 
unable  to  prevent.  With  the  prospect  of  securing  better  work  in  the  future 
in  consequence  of  this  separation  of  the  labor  into  distinct  portions  to  be 
attended  to  at  specified  times,  the  Association  passed,  unanimously,  a  hearty 
vote  of  thanks  to  the  committee  that  had  elaborated  the  plan. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  National  Formulary  was  next  taken  up, 
and  the  various  recommendations  were  considered  and  adopted  with  some 
modifications.  The  work  will  be  stereotyped  and  printed  as  part  of  the  Pro- 
ceedings, and  in  addition  to  this  a  separate  copy  of  the  formulary  will  be 
furnished  to  each  member.  "  The  question  of  copyrighting  the  work  was 
referred  to  the  Council,  and  this  body  resolved  that  the  work  be  copy- 
righted, but  that  the  reprinting  of  any  or  all  of  the  formulas,  in  an  unmuti- 
lated  condition,  be  not  prevented. 
Preceding  each  session  of  the  sections  no  general  business  can  be  trans- 
acted, under  the  new  rules,  except  election  of  members. 
The  Section  on  Commercial  Interests  held  two  sessions  on  Wednesday  fore- 
noon, and  organized  by  the  election  of  A.  H.  Hollister,  of  Wisconsin,  chair- 
man, and  J.  W.  Colcord,  of  Massachusetts,  secretary.  The  Committee  on 
Commercial  Interests  was  completed  by  the  election  of  E.  A.  Sayre,  of  New 
Jersey;  W.  H.  Eogers,  of  New  York,  and  A.  K.  Finlay,  of  Louisiana. 
A  resolution  was  offered  by  M.  Hallberg,  and  referred  to  the  committee 
for  report  next  year,  requesting  manufacturers  and  dealers  to  label  their 
products  in  conformity  with  the  official  nomenclature,  and  to  designate 
strengths  by  the  specific  gravity  or  percentage  strength,  thus  abolishing  ar- 
bitrary signs  and  obsolete  standards,  such  as  "  F "  marks  and  degrees 
.JBaume. 
The  removal  of  the  special  tax  on  druggists  for  selling  alcoholic  liquids, 
