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6sth  Annual  Meeting  of  the       {  Am.  jour,  pharm. 
u  &      J  L      October,  19 17. 
Appropriate  resolutions  of  thanks  were  extended  to  the  retiring 
officers  and  to  the  various  local  committees  who  had  aided  in  making 
the  meeting  a  success. 
The  various  sections  of  scientific  and  educational  character  were 
well  provided  with  interesting  programs,  as  will  be  evidenced  by  the 
following  schedule  of  officers  and  programs : 
SCIENTIFIC  SECTION. 
Officers:  Chairman,  J.  L.  Turner;  First  Vice-Chairman,  B.  L. 
Murray;  Second  Vice-Chairman,  A.  W.  Linton;  Secretary,  W.  W. 
Stockberger. 
Committee  on  Ebert  Prize :  Julius  A.  Koch,  Pittsburgh,  Pa., 
Chairman ;  Hermann  Engelhardt,  Baltimore,  Md. ;  Chas.  W.  Ballard, 
New  York,  N.  Y. 
The  following  papers  were  presented :  "  Biological  Products 
'  from  the  Pharmacy  Point  of  View,"  L.  E.  Sayre ;  "  Magnesium 
Sulphate — Its  Pharmacological  and  Therapeutic  Actions,"  Jacob 
Diner ;  "  Rabies,"  E.  G.  Stewart ;  "  Standardization  of  Digitalis," 
H.  C.  Colson,  Jr. ;  "  Solubility  of  Phosphatic  Kidney  Stones," 
W.  F.  Rudd  and  E.  V.  Greever ;  "  The  Significance  of  Cretinin 
and  its  Colorimetric  Determination  in  Urine,"  W.  F.  Gidley; 
"  The  Microchemistry  of  the  Alkaloids  of  Datura  Stramo- 
nium;' Chas.  O.  Lee  \  "  Soy  Bean  Oil,"  E.  V.  Howell;  "A  New 
Method  of  Extracting  Drugs  for  Alkaloidal  Assaying,"  W.  M. 
Maske,  Jr. ;  "  An  Improved  Method  of  Assaying  Opium,"  W.  M. 
Maske,  Jr.;  "Sulphur — Its  Production  and  Use"  (Illustrated  with 
Lantern  Slides),  M.  A.  Mansbach;  "Scientific  Drug  Farming" 
(Illustrated  with  Motion  Pictures),  H.  C.  Fuller;  "The  Cultivation 
of  Drug  Plants"  (Illustrated  with  Lantern  Slides),  John  A.  Borne- 
man;  "Drug  Cultivation"  (Illustrated  with  Lantern  Slides),  F.  A. 
Miller;  "Breeding  of  Medicinal  Plants,"  F.  A.  Miller;  "The  Cul- 
tivation of  Henbane,"  N.  R.  Mueller.  Symposium  on  Drug  Plant 
Growing — Discussion  opened  by  W.  W.  Stockberger,  followed  by 
Edward  Kremers,  E.  L.  Newcomb,  F.  A.  Miller,  H.  C.  Fuller  and 
others.  "  Tolu  and  Sugar  Coating  in  the  Disguising  of  Medicines/'' 
Bernard  Fantus ;  "Borax  and  Boric  Acid,"  H.  L.  Harris;  "The 
Analysis  of  Borax  Soaps  for  the  Borax  Content,"  K.  F.  Ehmann  and 
Joseph  Harrison;  "Tincture  of  Cantharides  "  (Fourth  Paper),  W. 
L.  Scoville ;  "  The  Constituents  of  Senna  Beans,"  W.  L.  Scoville ; 
"  The  Microanalysis  of  Malted  Milks,"  C.  VV.  Ballard ;  "  The  Rela- 
