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tail  organizations,  and  seeks  to  legalize  contracts  between  manu- 
facturers and  dealers  in  articles  of  commerce  produced  under  a  trade 
mark  or  special  brand.  If  enacted  into  law  the  bill  would  restore  to 
manufacturers  the  rights  supposedly  existing  under  which  the  vari- 
ous contracts  were  developed  in  connection  with  the  sale  of  so-called 
patent  medicine. — Pharm.  Era,  1914,  vol.  47,  pp.  145,  146. 
Annual  Meetings. — The  annual  meetings  of  State  and  National 
Pharmaceutical  Associations  and  of  other  related  organizations  are 
attracting  cpnsiderable  attention.  This  year  the  order  of  holding 
the  two  National  Drug  Association  meetings  will  be  reversed :  the 
1 6th  Annual  Convention  of  Retail  Druggists  is  to  be  held  in  Phila- 
delphia, August  17-21,  and  the  62nd  Annual  Convention  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association  is  to  follow,  in  Detroit,  August 
24-29,  1914. 
American  Chemical  Society. — The  meeting  of  the  American 
Chemical  Society  was  held  in  Cincinnati,  April  7-10.  Fully  1500 
chemists  attended  and  more  than  150  papers  were  read  before  the 
various  sections. 
Meeting  of  the  American  Medical  Association. — The  meeting  of 
the  American  Medical  Association  this  year  is  to  be  held  in  Atlantic 
City,  July  22-26.  The  preliminary  program  published  in  the  Jour- 
nal, May  16,  1914,  contains  an  unusually  interesting  list  of  promised 
contributions.  The  Section  on  Pharmacology  and  Therapeutics 
will  meet  in  the  gymnasium  of  the  Grammar  School,  on  Ohio  Ave- 
nue, and  the  program  for  this  section,  as  usual,  includes  a  number 
of  papers  of  direct  interest  to  pharmacists.  The  exhibition,  both 
scientific  as  well  as  commercial,  will  be  held  in  the  Atlantic  City 
Exhibition  Building,  corner  of  Kentucky  Avenue  and  the  Board- 
walk. The  scientific  exhibition  particularly  promises  to  be  unusually 
interesting,  in  that  an  effort  will  be  made  to  present  the  material  in 
a  collective  form  so  as  to  be  more  readily  studied. — /.  Am.  M. 
Assoc. ,.1914,  vol.  62,  pp.  1 592-1 609. 
The  Pharmacist  and  Pure  Drugs —A  recent  article  in  Public 
Health  Reports  (1914,  vol.  29,  pp.  1137-1144)  calls  attention  to  the 
reported  results  of  analyses  of  a  number  of  widely-used  drugs  and 
preparations,  and  points  out  that  the  proper  enforcement  of  laws 
designed  to  regulate  the  practice  of  pharmacy,  in  conjunction  with 
pure  drugs  laws,  should  relieve  physicians  and  the  public  of  any 
doubt  as  to  the  composition,  purity,  quality,  and  strength  of  all  drugs 
and  medicinal  preparations  used  in  the  treatment  of  disease.  Any- 
