Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
October,  1914. 
}  62nd  Annual  Meeting  of  the  A.  P.  A.  467 
might  well  serve  to  bring  about  an  appreciation  of  existing  conditions 
in  pharmacy  and  thus  make  for  an  unprecedented  degree  of  progress. 
The  program  for  this  section,  while  it  contained  but  a  total  of  25 
titles,  occupied  no  less  than  five  sessions,  two  of  which  were  held 
during  the  boat  ride  on  Thursday  afternoon  and  evening.  The  chair- 
man himself  presented  two  exceptionally  interesting  communications, 
one  on  the  dispensing  of  ointments  in  collapsible  tubes,  and  the 
second  on  the  preparation  of  flake  agar-agar.  P^or  the  latter  purpose 
he  recommends  moistening  the  substance  with  water,  passing  through 
an  ordinary  meat-chopper,  and  then  thoroughly  drying. 
By  far  the  greater  amount  of  time  at  three  of  the  sessions  was 
devoted  to  the  consideration  of  a  number  of  pharmaceutical  queries. 
The  answers  that  were  offered  evidenced  the  need  .for  developing 
practical  commercialism  in  pharmacy  if  pharmacists  are  to  retain  any 
of  the  business  that  should  be  theirs.  The  material  offered,  while  not 
particularly  reassuring  so  far  as  present-day  conditions  may  be  con- 
cerned, was  nevertheless  promising,  and  if  repeated,  particularly  in 
connection  with  local  branch  meetings  or  in  connection  with  actual 
demonstrations,  would  go  far  toward  bringing  about  necessary  re- 
forms in  future.  The  officers  for  the  coming  year  are :  Chairman, 
Cornelius  Osseward,  Seattle ;  associate,  D.  F.  Jones,  Watertown, 
S.  D. ;  secretary,  I.  A.  Becker,  Chicago. 
The  Section  on  Pharmacopoeias  and  Formularies  presented  a 
program  containing  12  communications  and  a  general  discussion  on 
400  or  more  new  or  modified  preparations  proposed  for  the  U.  S.  P. 
IX  and  the  N.  F.  IV.  The  section  proceedings  were  conducted  by 
E.  Fullerton  Cook,  of  Philadelphia,  and  in  the  abscence  of  the 
secretary  John  K.  Thum,  of  Philadelphia,  was  elected  to  act  as 
secretary.  In  accordance  with  a  decision  of  the  Council,  this  section 
becomes  a  sub-section  or  branch  of  the  Section  on  Practical  Phar- 
macy and  Dispensing,  as  which  the  work  so  successfully  inaugurated 
during  the  two  years  of  its  existence  as  a  distinct  section  will  no  doubt 
be  continued. 
The  Section  on  Commercial  Interests,  under  the  very  able  manage- 
ment of  Harry  B.  Mason,  of  Detroit,  who  had  been  appointed  to 
serve  as  chairman  in  place  of  Gus  Lindvall,  resigned,  devoted  two 
sessions  to  the  discussion  of  twenty  or  more  communications.  By 
far  the  greater  number  of  the  papers  on  the  program  were  matters 
relating  to  practical  pharmacy,  while  others  had  little  or  nothing  to 
do  with  pharmacy  and  were,  therefore,  not  germane  to  a  meeting 
