AlAuJust,]imm'}    New  York  Pharmaceutical  Association.  399 
requisite  (operative  in  1905),  shall  require  regents'  examination  for 
entrance  into  colleges  of  pharmacy,  and  that  a  method  be  devised 
for  some  form  of  State  control  over  the  standard  of  the  colleges. 
The  latter  sections  of  this  resolution  were  generally  considered 
most  important  steps  toward  the  attainment  of  a  higher  and  better 
educational  and  legal  pharmaceutical  standard. 
A  resolution  was  adopted  thanking  the  Governor  for  signing  the 
bill  increasing  the  rank  and  pay  of  the  hospital  stewards  in  the 
State  militia. 
G.  Michaelis,  of  Albany,  read  the  report  of  the  Committee  on 
Adulterations.  The  general  average  quality  cf  drugs  in  this  State 
was  found  better  than  heretofore  and  gradually  improving.  The 
report  urged  work  to  secure  the  passage  of  the  Brosius  Bill,  as  State 
measures  were  useless  without  Federal  legislation.  If  the  Brosius 
Bill  passes  there  will  be  no  further  need  for  this  committee  in  this 
Association.  A  tabular  statement  was  given  showing  the  character 
of  a  large  number  of  articles  examined  during  the  past  year.  A 
large  part  of  the  report  consisted  of  abstracts  from  the  annual 
report  of  the  chemist  of  the  United  States  Department  of  Agri- 
culture. 
The  Committee  on  Pharmacy  and  Queries  announced  several 
papers  :  "  Prescription  Incompatibilities  in  Every-day  Practice,"  by 
W.  J.  Robinson,  New  York ;  "  Shop  Notes  and  Dispensing  Hints," 
W.  A.  Dawson,  Hempstead;  a  paper  by  C.  S.  Ingraham,  Elmira, 
requesting  establishment  of  a  standing  committee  on  formulas; 
"  Tendencies  in  Pharmacy,"  A.  B.  Huested,  Albany  ;  "  Botanical 
Nomenclature,"  W.  A.  Bryan,  Brooklyn ;  "  History  of  the  New 
York  State  Pharmaceutical  Association,"  C.  W.  Holmes,  Elmira. 
All  these  papers  were  read  by  title  and  referred  for  publication. 
The  following  officers  were  elected  : 
President,  Felix  Hirseman,  New  York  ;  First  Vice-President, 
Thos.  Stoddart,  Buffalo;  Second  Vice-President,).  F.  Van  Nort, 
Elmira;  Third  Vice-President,  Clarence  Miller,  Newburgh ;  Secre- 
tary, J.  B.  Todd,  Ithaca;  Treasurer,  T.  W.  Dalton,  Syracuse; 
Executive  Committee,  J.  A.  Lockie,  Buffalo;  A.  C.  Searles,  New 
York;  Frank  Richardson,  Albany. — Pharrn.  Era,  July  5,  1900;  and 
Drug.  Circ,  July,  1900. 
