306  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {Amj^e''i5»frmr 
by  the  Council  was  the  provision  to  print  100  copies  of  the  Report  on  the 
Progress  of  Pharmacy  for  distribution. 
When  the  Section  resumed  business  a  delegation  from  the  Richmond. 
Chamber  of  Commerce  was  heard  on  an  amendment  which  the  chamber  pro- 
posed to  the  Brosius  Pure  Food  Bill,  now  before  Congress,  but  when  the  mat- 
ter came  up  for  discussion  at  the  final  general  session  it  was  laid  on  the  table. 
The  report  of  the  committee  appointed  to  consider  the  draft  of  the  "  model 
pharmacy  "  law  was  received  and  the  law,  with  some  minor  amendments, 
adopted  as  a  whole  by  the  Association. 
A  letter  from  Dr.  Fred.  Hoffmann,  now  of  Berlin,  was  read  by  General  Secre- 
tary Caspari.  The  author  made  a  plea  for  the  establishment  of  a  National 
library  and  museum  of  chemistry,  pharmacy  and  allied  branches,  and  recom- 
mended following  the  examples  of  the  Lloyd  Library  and  that  of  Dr.  H.  Carring- 
ton  Bolton. 
A  resolution  approving  the  measures  supported  by  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia 
Convention  for  the  establishment  of  a  National  Bureau  for  the  Standardization 
of  Weights  and  Measures  was  read  by  F.  W.  E.  Stedem  and  adopted  by  the 
section  at  the  final  general  session. 
A  paper  entitled  "  Preliminary  Education  for  Students  of  Colleges  of  Phar- 
macy" was  read  by  W.  C.  Alpers,  he  being  the  chairman  of  a  committee 
appointed  to  consider  this  question.  Among  other  things  the  committee  said : 
It  seems  to  the  committee  that  the  teachers  of  our  pharmaceutical  colleges 
have  the  power  to  institute  such  reforms  in  their  own  hands,  if  they  earnestly 
desire  to  do  so.  An  example  is  set  them  in  this  respect  by  the  larger  universi- 
ties in  all  parts  of  the  United  States,  who  for  a  number  of  years  have  appointed 
joint  committees  of  professors  and  teachers  of  preparatory  schools,  for  the 
purpose  of  evolving  a  scheme  whereby  a  general  university  examining  board 
shall  be  established,  whose  certificate  shall  admit  to  any  of  the  colleges  agree- 
ing to  the  regulations.  This  board  will  assign  a  value  to  each  subject,  and  the 
requirement  in  that  subject  will  be  fixed  ;  but  there  will  be  such  a  variety  of 
subjects  to  select  from,  as  the  rules  of  the  particular  institution  or  the  fancy  of 
the  student  may  demand.  This  plan  is  being  matured,  and  it  is  hoped  that  all 
the  details  will  be  decided  this  spring.  There  is  no  reason  why  a  similar  joint 
committee  could  not  be  appointed  by  our  pharmaceutical  colleges.  In  the 
entrance  examinations  the  standard  of  a  three  years'  high  school  should  be 
the  minimum,  but,  by  selecting  a  large  series  of  subjects  and  assigning  a  value 
to  each  one,  the  variations  in  the  requirements  of  different  schools  and  locali- 
ties could  be  met." 
The  other  papers  read  before  the  Section  were  :  "  Status  of  the  Drug  Trade 
of  Maine  Under  the  Prohibition  Law  of  the  State,"  by  Charles  K.  Partridge  ; 
"  Fluid  Extract  Labels,"  by  E.  G.  Eberly  ;  "  Under  What  Restrictions  Should 
Pharmacists  be  Permitted  to  Sell  Liquors?"  by  G.  C.  Simms,  and  "  Erroneous 
Prescriptions,"  by  Louis  Schulze. 
The  Chairman,  C.  B.  Lowe,  and  the  Secretary,  J.  A.  Koch,  were  elected 
to  serve  in  their  respective  capacities  another  year. 
FINAL,  GENERAL  SESSION. 
The  following  were  chosen  officers  of  the  new  Section  on  Pharmacy  and 
Dispensing  for  the  coming  year  :  Chairman,  H.  P.  Hyuson  ;  Secretary,  F.  W.. 
E.  Stedem,  and  Associate,  C.  Lewis  Diehl. 
