558        Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations.  {^JS^'Sff^ 
Mr.  Sayre  suggested  the  subject  of  pancreatized  codliver  oil  and  pancreatic 
emulsion  as  a  desirable  subject  for  an  essay  by  Mr.  Mattison,  who  declined,  having 
proved  to  his  own  satisfaction  that  pancreatic  emulsion  is  financially  and  commer- 
cially a  failure,  but  therapeutically  a  grand  success. 
On  motion  adjourned. 
German  Apothecaries'  Society. — The  seventh  annual  meeting  was  held  at  Cob- 
lence,  on  Wednesday  and  Thursday,  September  10  and  11,  Director  Wolfrum 
In  the  chair.  Messrs.  Korte,  of  Essen,  and  Westphal,  of  Uiisseldorf,  were  ap- 
pointed recording  secretaries.  The  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain  was 
represented  by  Mr.  Thomas  Greenish  and  Dr.  Paul,  and  the  Swiss  Apothecaries' 
Association  by  M.  Perrenoud,  of  Berne.  The  German  Society  has  at  present  2,779 
members,  belonging  to  92  districts  5  but  it  does  not  yet  embrace  all  the  apothecaries 
of  the  German  Empire. 
Among  the  subjects  which  claimed  the  attention  of  the  meeting,  we  mention  the 
appointment  of  a  permanent  Committee  on  the  Pharmacopoeia;  and  the  appoint- 
ment of  a  committee  to  inquire  into  the  instruction  of  pharmacists  at  the  different 
universities,  and  into  the  necessity  for  having  the  large  number  of  examination 
commissions  as  at  present  instituted.  Various  other  questions  relating  to  the  con- 
dition of  pharmacy  in  Germany  received  due  attention. 
Professor  Fr.  Mohr  delivered  an  address  on  the  development  of  chemistry  from 
pharmacy,  dwelling  more  particularly  on  the  momentous  results  obtained  by  Scheele 
in  the  pharmaceutical  laboratory,  and  tracing  the  growth  of  chemistry  to  a  separate 
branch  of  science.  The  address  concluded  with  a  review  of  the  various  chemical 
theories  and  a  consideration  of  the  relations  between  the  pharmacist  and  the  manu- 
facturer of  chemical  products. 
M.  Schlickum  delivered  an  address  on  the  instruction  of  apprentices. 
M.  Wolfrum  intended  to  resign  his  official  position,  but  was  requested  to  serve 
for  another  year. 
The  next  annual  meeting  will  be  held  in  the  city  of  Hannover. 
Swiss  Apothecaries'  Association.— The  thirty-fourth  annual  meeting  was  held 
in  Zurich,  August  28  and  29  ;  the  president,  Prof.  Schaer,  in  the  chair,  Mr. 
B.  Studer,  Jr.,  secretary.  The  meeting  was  opened  with  the  annual  report  of  the 
piesident,  in  which  the  progress  of  pharmacy  and  the  society  affairs  during  the  past 
year  were  reviewed. 
The  transactions  of  the  society  were  mainly  confined  to  the  consideration  of 
affairs  relating  to  the  practice  of  pharmacy  in  Switzerland.  An  address  on  the 
methods  for  determining  the  amount  of  moisture  in  air  was  delivered  by  Mr.  Rosen- 
mund. 
The  German  Apothecaries'  Society  was  represented  by  Dr.  Brunnengraber.  The 
following  gentlemen  were  elected  honorary  members  :  Profs.  Dragendorff,  of  Dor- 
pat  ;  Maisch,  of  Philadelphia,  and  Reichardt,  of  Jena. 
The  next  annual  meeting  will  be  held  at  Geneva. 
