466  62nd  Annual  Meeting  of  the  A.  P.  A.  { A^g£;  f**™- 
subjects  equally  interesting  to  the  pharmacist  who  is  at  all  desirous 
of  keeping  in  touch  with  the  progress  that  is  being  made  along  scien- 
tific lines.  The  papers  presented  this  year,  while  perhaps  not  epoch- 
making,  serve  to  reflect  progress  in  a  variety  of  lines  of  research. 
Three  sessions  were  held  and  ample  time  given  for  the  discussion 
of  the  several  communications  that  were  presented. 
At  one  of  the  sessions  of  this  section  the  scope  of  Hygienic  Labo- 
ratory Bulletins  entitled  "  Digest  of  Comments  on  the  Pharmacopoeia 
of  the  United  States  of  America  and  on  the  National  Formulary  " 
was  discussed  and  a  resolution  adopted,  the  purport  of  which  was  that 
the  Digest  of  Comments  be  continued  along  the  lines  on  which  it  has 
been  developed,  and  that,  if  possible,  future  volumes  of  the  com- 
pilation be  published  more  promptly  so  as  to  make  them  increasingly 
valuable  to  the  workers  in  scientific  pharmacy,  who  find  the  publica- 
tion useful  as  a  reference  book  on  current  literature  relating  to 
articles  included  in  the  Pharmacopoeia  and  the  National  Formulary. 
The  officers  for  the  coming  year  are :  Chairman,  Herman  Engel- 
hardt,  Baltimore ;  secretary,  William  Mansfield,  New  York. 
The  Section  on  Education  and  Legislation,  under  the  able  direc- 
tion of  Hugh  Craig,  Chicago,  as  chairman,  and  F.  H.  Freericks,  Cin- 
cinnati, as  secretary,  was  scheduled  for  three  sessions  with  a  program 
including  some  18  communications.  Legislation  and  the  need  for  en- 
forcing existing  laws  were  discussed  at  some  length.  The  chairman, 
in  his  address,  expressed  the  opinion  that  legislation  is  an  over-ex- 
ploited remedy  for  pharmacal  ills  and  that  education,  while  slower,  is 
more  promising.  He  also  called  attention  to  some  of  the  educational 
needs  of  pharmacy,  and  deplored  the  lack  of  efficient  pharmacal 
educators. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  National  Legislation  and  of  the 
delegates  to  the  Drug  Trade  Conference  was  followed  by  a  rather 
lively  discussion  on  legislative  matters.  The  section  subsequently 
adopted  a  resolution  endorsing  the  Harrison  anti-narcotic  measure 
in  the  form  in  which  it  passed  the  Senate,  and  urged  its  final  adoption 
into  law. 
The  officers  of  the  section  for  the  coming  year  are :  Chairman, 
F.  R.  Freericks,  Cincinnati ;  secretary,  R.  A.  Kuever,  Iowa  City. 
The  Section  on  Practical  Pharmacy  and  Dispensing,  under  the 
direction  of  the  chairman,  F.  W.  Nitardy,  Denver,  and  the  secretary, 
Cornelius  Osseward,  of  Seattle,  introduced  a  rather  novel  feature  in 
the  nature  of  experience  meetings  that,  continued  at  future  meetings, 
