AAuJ5,i»m'}    Neiv  York  Pharmaceutical  Association.  397 
select  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Pharmacy,  H.  A.  Jorden,  Charles 
Holzhauer,  C.  A.  Bye,  W.  F.  Fox  and  R.  Killgore. — Ibid.,  1900, 
p.  596. 
NEW  YORK  STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
The  twenty-second  annual  meeting  of  the  New  York  State  Phar- 
maceutical Association  was  held  at  Newburgh,  June  26-29,  1900. 
The  President  in  his  address  said  that  he  was  glad  to  see  that 
fraternal  feeling  had  wiped  out  petty  jealousy,  so  that  now  local 
associations  could  be  organized  much  more  readily  than  ever  before. 
He  was  pleased  to  see  that  organization  was  the  order  of  the  day,, 
as  druggists  had  been  working  single-handed  too  long.  By  acting 
together  druggists  would  not  only  better  their  own  positions,  but 
would  stand  higher  in  the  eyes  of  the  public. 
Regarding  the  N.A.R.D.  the  President  said  that  it  had  done 
much  toward  establishing  a  better  understanding  between  the  whole- 
salers and  manufacturers  and  the  retailers.  New  York  had  been 
well  represented  at  the  Cincinnati  meeting.  He  had  attended  and 
was  very  favorably  impressed,  and  bespoke  the  kindly  consideration 
of  the  New  York  State  Association  for  this  national  organization. 
The  work  done  by  Thomas  Stoddart  before  the  Ways  and  Means 
Committee  of  Congress  in  the  matter  of  the  proposed  repeal  of  the 
stamp  tax  law  was  alluded  to. 
Twenty  years'  labor  of  the  Association  in  the  direction  of  secur- 
ing an  all-State  pharmacy  law  had  at  last  shown  results  and  the  law 
was  now  on  the  statute  books.  Difference  of  opinion  in  the  drug- 
gists' own  ranks  had  prevented  an  earlier  consummation  of  this 
desirable  legislation,  and  when  it  had  come  it  was  an  agreeable  sur- 
prise all  around.  To  R.  K.  Smither,  of  Buffalo,  and  Assemblyman 
Hill  was  due  the  chief  credit  for  this  statute,  and  he  asked  for  it  a 
fair  trial,  feeling  sure  that  it  was  an  improvement  over  the  old  laws. 
The  appointment  of  the  members  of  the  board  had  been  kept  out 
of  the  hands  of  the  Governor  for  fear  that  politics  would  creep  in  \ 
he  hoped  that  pharmacists  would  not  disgrace  the  Association  by 
infusing  their  politics  into  the  board.  He  complimented  the  old 
State  Board  for  the  immense  amount  of  work  it  had  accomplished 
under  a  rather  indifferent  law. 
About  the  matter  of  pharmaceutical  education  the  President  had 
