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Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1907. 
J.  M.  Coulter,  University  of  Chicago  ;  Prof.  W.  Simon,  University  of  Maryland; 
Dr.  A.  B.  Lyons,  Detroit  ;  Prof.  Daniel  Base,  University  of  Maryland  ;  Dr. 
Reynold  W.  Wilcox,  New  York  City;  Prof.  H.  P.  Hynson,  University  of 
Maryland  ;  Prof.  E.  A.  Ruddiman,  Vanderbilt  University;  Prof.  C.  S.  N. 
Hallberg,  University  of  Illinois.  Telegrams  were  also  received  from  the 
following  graduates  residing  in  Syracuse,  N.  Y. :  David  Stolz,  I,ouis  Stolz, 
Wm.  J.  Ross,  Fred.  J.  Nye,  Wm.  B.  Bunker,  Wayne  B.  Bissell,  Edward 
S.  Dawson  ;  from  the  following  located  in  Dallas,  Tex.:  J.  Connor  Chisholm, 
Samuel  Y.  Althoff,  and  Chester  A.  Duncan  ;  and  from  Godfrey  Olin  Hancock 
and  George  Du  Bois,  of  Paducah,  Ky. 
MAY  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  last  of  the  series  of  Pharmaceutical  Meetings  for  1906-07 
was  held  on  Tuesday  afternoon,  May  14,  1907,  in  the  Museum  of 
the  College,  with  Mr.  Joseph  L.  Lemberger,  of  Lebanon,  Pa.,  in  the 
chair. 
Prof.  Henry  Kraemer  read  an  interesting  paper  commemorative 
of  the  centenary  of  the  birth  of  Louis  Agassiz,  in  the  course  of 
which  he  briefly  outlined  the  life  and  the  achievements  of  that  great 
naturalist  and  gave  a  summary  of  his  influence  on  the  study  of  the 
natural  sciences  in  America. 
Mr.  Ambrose  Hunsberger  gave  a  practical  demonstration  and 
read  a  short  paper  on  "  Practical  Results  with  National  Formulary 
Preparations."  In  connection  with  the  practical  demonstration 
Mr.  Hunsberger  exhibited  upwards  of  twenty  of  the  National 
Formulary  preparations  and  recounted  some  of  the  difficulties 
he  had  met  with  and  the  success  that  had  followed  the  introduc- 
tion of  these  preparations  to  the  physicians  of  his  neighborhood. 
One  very  important  suggestion  made  by  Mr.  Hunsberger  was  that 
in  sampling  physicians  with  preparations  of  this  kind  it  is  well  to 
give  rather  liberal  samples,  particularly  of  articles  that  are  at  all 
likely  to  be  useful  to  the  physician  or  his  family.  The  paper  read 
by  Mr.  Hunsberger  was  a  particularly  helpful  one,  full  of  sugges- 
tions on  the  various  agencies  favoring  the  introduction  of  official 
or  open  formula  preparations  and  constitutes  a  strong  plea  for  prac- 
tical work  on  the  part  of  retail  pharmacists. 
Mr.  D.  J.  Thomas,  of  Scranton,  Pa.,  in  discussing  this  paper,  was 
inclined  to  question  the  advisability  of  pursuing  this  line  of  work 
at  the  present  time,  thinking  that  the  rank  and  file  of  pharmacists 
