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tion,  announcing  when  the  new  Pharmacopoeia  is  intended  to  go  into  effect 
and  to  supersede  the  preceding  one. 
Resolved,  That  the  Committee  of  Revision  is  authorized  to  prepare,  and  the 
Board  of  Trustees  is  authorized  to  publish,  a  supplement  to  the  U.  S„  Pharma- 
copoeia, if  in  the  opinion  of  the  Committee  of  Revision  and  Board  of  Trustees 
it  be  deemed  advisable. 
Resolved,  That  the  Committee  of  Revision  shall  report  a  complete  plan  for 
the  revision  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  at  the  next  decennial  convention. 
The  following  resolution,  offered  by  Joseph  P.  Remington  and  amended  by 
Charles  Caspari,  Jr.,  upon  the  suggestion  of  H.  H.  Rusby,  was  also  adopted  : 
Resolved,  That  this  Convention  direct  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  Committee 
of  Revision  to  permit  the  use  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia  for  the  purpose  of 
comment  by  all  books  and  commentaries  upon  the  same  terms  as  granted  by 
the  Committee  of  Revision  and  Publication  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia  of  1890. 
AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
The  forty-eighth  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion was  held  in  the  Jefferson  Hotel,  at  Richmond,  Va.,  May  7th  to  12th.  The 
first  general  session  convened  on  Monday,  at  3.15  p.m.  Soon  after  calling  the 
session  to  order,  the  President,  Prof.  A.  B.  Prescott,  of  Ann  Arbor,  Mich., 
introduced  Governor  Tyler,  who  made  a  pleasing  address  of  welcome,  and  also 
Mayor  Taylor,  who  extended  the  privileges  of  the  city.  Dr.  W.  C.  Alpers,  of 
New  York,  having  been  called  upon  to  respond  in  behalf  of  the  Association, 
paid  a  high  tribute  to  Virginia  and  to  her  capital  city.  Upon  invitation,  H.  P. 
Hynson,  of  Baltimore,  also  returned  the  thanks  of  the  Association. 
Lewis  C.  Hopp,  of  Cleveland,  O.,  First  Vice-President  of  the  Association,  was 
called  to  the  chair,  while  President  Prescott  delivered  his  annual  address. 
The  address  was  comprehensive  in  character,  and  while  no  radical  measures 
were  recommended  in  it,  we  believe  that  every  pharmacist  who  is  privileged  to 
read  it  in  its  entirety  will  be  prouder  of  his  calling  and  more  reconciled  to  pre- 
vailing conditions  as  marking  but  evolutionary  steps  in  a  wider  growth  and 
greater  specialization  ;  and  that  he  will  be  encouraged  to  pursue  his  work  with 
the  consciousness  that  his  is  an  occupation  requiring  not  only  special  knowl- 
edge and  special  skill,  but  keen  business  insight  as  well,  surely  a  combination 
of  qualifications  which  must  ultimately  reflect  credit  and  honor  upon  those 
possessing  it.  After  considering  the  several  departments  of  practice,  namely, 
those  of,  the  wholesaler,  the  manufacturer  and  the  dispenser,  the  President 
said  :  "In  the  main  their  interests  are  in  common."  Then  taking  up  the  sub- 
ject of  teaching,  he  said  : 
"  With  the  practitioners  of  pharmacy  in  its  several  divisions  of  labor  belong 
the  teachers  of  pharmacy  and  of  the  sciences  applied  in  its  practice.  Pharmacy 
has  been  sometimes  the  parent  and  sometimes  the  child  of  chemistry,  of 
botany,  of  pharmacology.  The  relation  of  the  apothecary's  art  to  modern 
science  is  not  estimated  at  full  value.  Research  came  out  of  pharmacy  in 
the  last  century  and  will  return  thereto  in  the  next.  Now,  whatever  learning 
may  claim  for  itself,  it  may  claim  for  its  teachers  as  well.  Teachers  in  college 
must  be  in  touch  with  the  activities  of  life.    If  able  to  teach  or  to  learn  they 
