Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1907. 
American  Chemical  Society. 
265 
To  sum  up,  therefore, — the  American  Chemical  Society  owes  its 
success  and  loyal  support,  first,  to  the  interest  taken  in  its  local 
section  work,  thereby  enabling  its  members,  except  those  inaccessi- 
bly located,  to  enjoy  a  share  in  its  work;  second,  to  the  excellence 
of  its  monthly  Journal  and  bi-monthly  Abstract  Journal,  which  are 
furnished  for  the  yearly  membership  dues  of  $8.00. 
The  American  Chemical  Society  local  meetings  could  be  improved 
by  studying  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  meetings' 
habit  of  discussing  economic  problems. 
The  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  can  be  built  up  in  like 
manner  if  its  local  sections  arise  to  the  occasion  and  do  their  duty 
as  connecting  links  between  the  individual  member  and  the  general 
association, — devoting  more  time  than  they  have  in  the  past  to 
questions  of  a  scientific  nature. . 
Whether  or  not  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  mem- 
bers are  as  well  repaid  for  their  $5.00  dues,  or  $>6.00  as  it  really  is, 
by  the  copy  of  the  annual  proceedings  and  the  monthly  American 
Pharmaceutical  Bulletin,  which  is,  as  its  name  implies,  merely  a 
bulletin  of  announcements  and  minutes  of  various  meetings,  as  are 
the  members  of  the  American  Chemical  Society  for  their  $8. 00 Tee 
for  which  they  receive  the  twelve  numbers  of  the  Journal,  and  the 
twenty-four  numbers  of  the  Abstract  Journal,  is  problematical, — 
but  I  do  not  feel  it  incumbent  to  discuss  that  feature  here.  I  "doubt 
very  much  whether  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  is 
yet  ready  to  undertake  the  publication  of  a  pharmaceutical  journal, 
including  abstracts  of  the  world's  pharmaceutical  work,  true  as  it  is 
that  such  a  journal  is  needed. 
But  the  advantages  to  be  gained  by  the  well-balancing  of  local 
section  work  is,  I  trust,  apparent  to  all. 
Philadelphia,  May  7,  1907. 
