50  .  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.    {A  januaryfwo?.111' 
business  done  by  retail  pharmacists.  Many  so-called  patent  medi- 
cines will  be  materially  changed  in  appearance  and  also  in  compo- 
sition, and  the  pharmacist  will  no  doubt  be  expected  to  explain  these 
changes. 
A  communication  from  Dr.  Wm.  Jay  SchiefTelin,  of  New  York, 
bearing  on  some  of  the  more  intricate  questions  involved  in  the 
rules  and  regulations,  was  read  and  dicussed.  Several  additional 
communications  that  had  been  sent  in,  were,  owing  to  a  lack  of  time, 
referred  to  but  not  read  in  full. 
Professor  Remington  referred  to  the  recent  death  of  Mr.  Albert 
E.  Ebert,  of  Chicago,  a  prominent  member  of  the  American  Phar- 
maceutical Association,  and  suggested  that  a  committee  be  appointed 
to  draw  up  and  to  present  to  the  Philadelphia  Branch  a  suitable  set 
of  resolutions.  It  was  moved,  and  seconded  that  a  committee  of 
three  be  appointed  by  the  Chair,  to  draft  such  resolutions  and  to 
solicit  and  accept  contributions  toward  the  monument  fund  inau- 
gurated by  the  Chicago  Veteran  Druggists'  Association. 
The  Chair  appointed  as  members  of  this  committee,  Mr.  William 
Mclntyre,  Mr.  Edwin  Boring  and  Mr.  J.  H.  Redsecker. 
Mr.  Kline  suggested  that  some  expression  of  opinion  in  regard 
to  the  probable  enactment  of  a  State  law,  based  on  the  Federal  Pure 
Food  and  Drugs  Law,  might  be  opportune.  After  some  additional 
discussion  it  was  adopted  as  the  sense  of  the  meeting  that  a  State 
drug  law,  based  on  the  Food  and  Drugs  Act,  June  30,  1906,  would 
be  desirable.  It  was  further  proposed  to  appoint  a  committee  of 
three  members  to  confer  with  similar  committees  from  other  associ- 
ations for  the  purpose  of  considering  the  advisability  of  such  legis- 
lation and  of  bringing  it  in  harmony  with  the  essential  provisions 
of  the  Federal  law.  This  proposition  was,  on  motion,  adopted  and 
the  Chair  appointed  Messrs.  Wm.  L.  Cliffe,  Jos.  W.  England  and 
M.  I.  Wilbert  to  serve  as  a  committee  from  the  Philadelphia  Branch 
of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  to  confer  with  similar 
committees  from  other  associations. 
The  Chair  also  announced  that  he  had  appointed  the  following 
members  to  serve  as  a  committee  on  exhibitions,  in  addition  to  the 
executive  committee  of  the  local  branch:  Dr.  H.  C.  Wood,  Jr.;  Mr. 
Frank  E.  Morgan,  Mr.  Henry  C.  Blair,  Prof.  Henry  Kraemer  and 
Prof.  Charles  H.  La  Wall.      .  M.  I.  Wilbert, 
Secretary. 
