A^ctJo°bTr'  uu^'j^nd  Annual  Meeting  of  the  A.  P.  A.  469 
Legislation  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  was  held 
on  the  evening  of  August  28th. 
The  Committee  of  Revision  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia 
held  rather  a  prolonged  conference,  at  which  several  highly  important 
matters  were  discussed.  The  Committee  on  National  Formulary 
took  advantage  of  the  opportunity  to  conclude  the  week  by  holding 
several  protracted  meetings,  at  which  a  number  of  questions  in  con- 
nection with  the  revision  of  that  book  were  finally  decided,  so  that 
the  manuscript  may  now  go  to  the  printer. 
The  final  general  session,  while  an  unusually  long  one,  will  have 
been  well  worth  the  time  devoted  to  it  if  the  changes  that  were  pro- 
vided for  are  actually  put  into  operation  at  future  meetings.  The 
amendments  to  the  by-laws  that  were  adopted  provide  for  a 
material  concentration  of  the  work  of  the  sections,  including  the 
practical  amalgamation  of  the  Section  on  Pharmacopoeias  and  For- 
mularies with  the  Section  on  Practical  Pharmacy  and  Dispensing. 
The  work  of  other  sections  is  also  more  clearly  outlined  and  will 
obviate  any  agitation  for  additional  sections  in  the  near  future. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  President's  Address  aroused 
considerable  discussion,  and  some  of  the  recommendations  made  by 
the  committee  were  not  approved  of.  The  report  of  the  same  com- 
mittee on  the  recommendations  made  by  the  former  secretary  of  the 
Association,  Prof.  Jas.  H.  Beal,  was,  on  motion,  referred  to  the 
Council  with  power  to  act. 
Among  the  resolutions  approved  by  the  Association  at  this  final 
session  were : 
A  resolution  to  draft  a  bill  designed  to  reform  the  present  patent 
law  so  as  to  compel  the  manufacture  in  this  country  of  all  medicinal 
products. protected  by  patent; 
A  resolution  endorsing  the  proposition  that  graduates  in  pharmacy 
only  be  appointed  as  members  of  Boards  of  Pharmacy; 
A  resolution  endorsing  the  proposed  Congress  of  National  Drug 
and  Pharmaceutical  Associations,  the  object  of  this  resolution  being 
to  bring  about  some  form  of  correlation  in  the  work  of  the  several 
organizations ; 
A  resolution  endorsing  bills  now  pending  to  bring  about  stand- 
ardization of  prices  on  proprietary  medicines ; 
A  resolution  objecting  to  the  imposition  of  a  stamp  tax  on 
proprietary  medicine ; 
