^'obSSftSST"'}  62nd  Annual  Meeting  of  the  A.  P.  A.  465 
cedent,  the  proceedings  were  inaugurated  by  the  reading  of  the 
President's  address. 
The  address  presented  this  year  was  an  unusually  comprehensive 
communication  that  touched  on  many  important  features  of  associa- 
tion work  and  embodied  a  number  of  recommendations  that  should 
contribute  materially  to  make  for  real  progress  in  true  pharmacy. 
The  address  was  listened;  to  attentively  by  all  of  the  members  present, 
and  was  subsequently  referred  to  a  committee  of  five  to  report  at  a 
later  session. 
Following  the  reading  of  the  address  of  the  president,  a  number 
of  representatives  and  delegates  were  requested  to  present  felicita- 
tions or  reports,  and  these  addresses,  with  the  usual  recess  for  the 
selection  of  members  of  the  nominating  committee,  served  to  extend 
the  first  general  session  to  about  the  usual  late  hour  for  adjourning. 
The  second  general  session  of  the  Association  was  devoted 
largely  to  routine  business,  including  the  presentation  of  reports  of 
the  various  committees.  The  only  item  of  business  regarding  which 
there  appeared  to  be  a  difference  of  opinion  was  the  report  of  the 
committee  on  time  and  place  of  next  meeting,  and  this  was  made  the 
special  order  of  business  at  an  extra  session  held  on  Friday  evening. 
Many  of  the  members  of  the  Association  are  interested  only  in 
the  work  of  one  or  the  other  of  the  sections,  and  these  members,  at 
least,  had  no  cause  to  be  dissatisfied. 
The  programs  of  the  several  sections  of  the  Association  included 
a  total  of  more  than  125  communications,  some  of  which  were  of 
more  than  usual  interest.  In  the  following  paragraphs  an  effort  will 
be  made  to  reflect  the  nature  of  the  programs  themselves  rather  than 
attempt  to  present  a  comprehensive  review  of  what  was  said  by  the 
individual  essayists. 
The  Section  on  Scientific  Papers,  or  "  Scientific  Section,"  as  it 
was  generally  designated  on  the  programs  for  this  year,  had,  as  usual, 
a  liberal  and  varied  selection  of  communications,  Edsel  A.  Rud- 
diman,  of  Nashville,  Tenn.,  presided,  and  Wilbur  L.  Scoville,  of 
Detroit,  served  as  secretary.  The  printed  program  contained  a  total 
of  42  titles,  including  discussions  on :  Radium,  biological  products, 
immunology,  pharmacodynamic  assay  methods,  the  assay  of  opium, 
the  manufacture  of  fluidextracts,  the  nature  of  the  menstruum  for 
official  tinctures,  the  estimation  of  calomel,  the  physical  properties  of 
volatile  oils,  the  growing  of  plant  drugs,  the  differentiation  of  true 
oil  of  wintergreen  from  synthetic  methyl  salicylate,  and  many  other 
