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the  installation  of  officers,  President  Hess  announced  the  following 
chairmen  of  the  different  committees:  Membership  and  Attendance, 
F.  R.  Scharlach,  Moberly;  Papers  and  Queries,  Francis  Hemm,  St. 
Louis;  Legislation,  J.  M.  Love,  Kansas  City  ;  National  Formulary, 
F.  L.  Crampton,  Kansas  City;  Trade  Interests,  E.  G.  Schroers,  St. 
Joseph  ;  U.S. P.,  J.  F.  Llewellyn,  Mexico  ;  •  Exhibits,  Henry  Riddel, 
Kansas  City ;  Deceased  Members,  P.  H  Franklin,  Moberly ;  Drug 
Adulterations,  Ambrose  Mueller,  Webster  Groves  ;  Transportation, 
H.  W.  Servant,  Sedalia. 
MARYLAND  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
The  eighteenth  annual  meeting  of  the  Maryland  Pharmaceutical 
Association  was  held  at  Hagerstown,  June  19-22,  1900. 
The  sessions  were  opened  with  an  address  of  welcome  by  Mayor 
E.  M.  Schindel,  a  prominent  druggist  of  Hagerstown,  to  which  Henry 
P.  Hynson  replied  and  said,  among  other  things,  that  the  State  of 
Maryland  had  not  shown  appreciation  of  pharmacy  by  throwing 
around  it  laws  for  its  protection,  such  as  had  been  enacted  in  other 
States.  After  the  transaction  of  routine  business,  A.  R.  L.  Dohme, 
the  retiring  President,  read  his  annual  report. 
He  said  the  membership  had  been  increased  from  132  to  167,  and 
that  the  unsuccessful  efforts  to  secure  a  pharmacy  law  for  Maryland 
was  not  work  done  in  vain,  and  its  good  effects  would  be  shown  in 
the  future. 
Concerning  the  question  of  further  increasing  the  membership  of 
the  Association,  Dr.  Dohme  said  :  "  If  we  could  only  get  our  member- 
ship up  to  a  fair  proportion  of  the  total  number  of  pharmacists  in  the 
State,  we  would  have  a  much  better  opportunity  and  standing  before 
the  Legislature,  when  we  appear  before  it  in  behalf  of  a  bill  we  are 
offering.  During  the  past  year  an  effort  was  made  by  the  local  branch 
of  the  N.A.R.D.  to  bring  about  more  friendly  relations  between  the 
retail  and  wholesale  druggists  of  Baltimore.  It  was  not  entirely  suc- 
cessful. The  so-called  card  system  of  the  N.A.R.D.  has  been  inaugu- 
rated in  Baltimore,  but  also  without  success,  and  justly  so.  Until 
all  the  jobbers  of  Baltimore  and  the  neighboring  large  cities  can  be 
brought  into  line,  and  until  at  least  90  per  cent,  of  the  retailers  can 
be  induced  to  agree  to  the  system,  it  is  unreasonable  to  expect  either 
side  to  subscribe  to  it.    Until  the  organization  of  the  N.A.R.D. 
