400  Alabama  and  Arkansas  Associations.  {Ar^igust,^mm' 
ALABAMA  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
The  nineteenth  annual  meeting  of  the  Alabama  Pharmaceutical 
Association  was  held  at  Mobile,  May  I5th-i6th.  President  P.  G. 
Candidus  recommended  that  the  Association  should  co-operate  with 
the  N.A.R.D.,  and  also  that  the  members  should  work  to  secure  the 
repeal  of  the  stamp  tax  on  medicines.  The  President's  address, 
which  also  contained  other  recommendations,  was  referred  to  a  com- 
mittee for  consideration,  and,  at  the  last  session,  the  Association 
decided  to  re-enter  the  National  Association  of  Retail  Druggists, 
and  the  Secretary  was  authorized  to  telegraph  the  information  to 
the  headquarters  of  the  National  Association.  The  co-operation  of 
the  Association  was  pledged  to  the  movement  to  secure  more  recog- 
nition and  better  pay  for  the  pharmacists  in  the  Marine  Hospital 
Service.  A  committee,  consisting  of  Messrs.  McVay,  Brigham  and 
Braun,  was  appointed  to  consider  the  feasibility  of  adopting  a  for- 
mulary for  use  throughout  the  State.  The  committee  reported 
favorably,  and  the  President,  Secretary  and  Executive  Committee 
were  instructed  to  issue  during  the  coming  year  such  a  work.  The  fol- 
lowing officers  were  elected:  President,  G.  B.  McVay,  of  Birmingham  ; 
Vice-Presidents,  Thomas  W.  Peagler,  of  Greenville  ;  R.  H.  Stickney, 
Jr.,  of  Anniston  ;  Secretary,  L.  S.  Brigham,  of  Montgomery  ;  Treas- 
urer, E.  E.  Elam,  of  Anniston;  Local  Secretary,  J.  D.  Burke,  of 
Montgomery ;  Executive  Committee,  W.  E.  Bingham,  Tuskaloosa, 
A.  E.  Brown,  Mobile,  and  C.  B.  Goldthwaite,  of  Troy.  A  motion 
to  increase  the  dues  to  #1.50  per  member  was  lost.  Montgomery 
was  selected  as  the  place  for  holding  the  next  meeting. — Pharm. 
Era,  1900,  p.  597. 
ARKANSAS  ASSOCIATION  OF  PHARMACISTS. 
The  Arkansas  Association  of  Pharmacists  held  its  annual  meet- 
ing at  Little  Rock,  June  nth  and  13th.  Interesting  papers  were 
read  by  J.  H.  Chestnutt,  Hot  Springs,  W.  W.  Kerr  and  J.  W.  Beidel- 
man,  Little  Rock.  Resolutions  were  adopted  for  a  closer  affiliation 
with  the  National  Association  of  Retail  Druggists,  and  memorial- 
izing Congress  to  abolish  the  stamp  tax  on  patent  medicines.  The 
following  officers  were  elected  :  President,  E.  F.  Klein,  Hot  Springs  ; 
Vice-Presidents,  W.  L.  Dewoody,  Pine  Bluff,  and  M.  A.  Eisele,  Plot 
Springs;  Secretary,  James  A.  Ginocchio,  Little  Rock;  Treasurer, 
