48  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {A™aiuaryfi907rm' 
Resolved,  That  the  Philadelphia  Branch  of  the  American  Phar- 
maceutical Association  favors  holding  a  scientific  exhibition  of 
U.S.P.  and  N.F.  preparations,  in  connection  with  annual  or  stated 
meetings  of  medical  societies  in  its  territory ;  and,  be  it  further 
Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  five  members  be  appointed  by  the 
chair  to  co-operate  with  the  executive  committee  of  this  branch  in 
obtaining  the  permission  for  and  in  organizing  such  exhibitions. 
Resolution  Endotsing  Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry. — 
Whereas,  The  practice  of  pharmacy  constitutes  an  important 
branch  of  the  science  of  medicine  ;  and, 
Whereas,  Secrecy  in  any  one  department  or  branch  of  a  science 
must  of  necessity  be  a  menace  to  and  detract  from  accurate  observa- 
tion and  rational  progress  in  other  departments  and  branches  of  the 
same  science  ;  and, 
Whereas,  The  American  Medical  Association,  in  establishing  the 
Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry,  has  recognized  and  endorsed 
this  underlying  principle  of  true  progress,  in  the  science  of  medicine, 
through  the  department  of  pharmacy ;  therefore,  be  it 
Resolved,  That  we,  the  members  of  the  Philadelphia  Branch  of 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  heartily  endorse  the  ob- 
jects and  the  aims  of  the  Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry  of 
the  American  Medical  Association  ;  and,  be  it  further 
Resolved,  That,  individually  as  well  as  collectively,  we  pledge  our 
active  support  and  co-operation  to  the  Council  in  the  work  now  in 
hand. 
M.  I.  Wilbert, 
Secretary. 
The  stated  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  Branch  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  on  the  evening  of  December  12,  1906, 
was  devoted  to  a  discussion  of  the  Federal  Pure  Food  and  Drugs 
Law. 
The  session  was  presided  over  by  Prof.  Joseph  P.  Remington  and 
was  attended  by  upwards  of  250  members  and  visitors. 
"  The  Food  and  Drugs  Act,  June  30,  1906,  and  its  Effect  on  the 
Composition  of  Medicines,"  by  Dr.  Harvey  W.  Wiley,  was  presented 
by  Dr.  Lyman  F.  Kebler,  Chief  of  the  Drug  Laboratory  of  the 
Bureau  of  Chemistry,  Washington,  D.  C.  (p.  7). 
Dr.  Wiley,  in  this  paper,  refers  to  the  existing  laws  regulating 
