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SOUTH   CAROLINA  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
The  twenty-fourth  annual  meeting  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion of  South  Carolina  was  held  on  May  1 7th,  at  Charleston.  Reports 
were  read  by  the  President,  the  Secretary  and  the  Chairman  of  the 
Examining  Board,  in  all  of  which  the  forward  movement  in  phar- 
macy in  this  State  was  clearly  shown.  Memorial  resolutions  on  the 
death  of  the  late  President,  Peter  Robertson,  of  Newberry,  were 
read,  and  a  touching  tribute  was  paid  to  his  memory  as  a  pharma- 
cist and  a  man.  After  routine  business,  the  following  officers  were 
elected  for  the  ensuing  year:  President,  O.  Y.  Owings,  Columbia; 
First  Vice-President,  John  B.  Johnson,  Rock  Hill ;  Second  Vice- 
President,  A.  A.  Kroeg,  Charleston;  Secretary  and  Treasurer, 
Frank  M.  Smith,  Charleston;  Solicitor,  Hon.  J.  E.  Burke,  Charles- 
ton ;  members  of  the  State  Board,  O.  Y.  Owings,  Columbia ;  O.  E. 
Thomas,  Columbia;  J.  G.  De  Lorme,  Sumter;  Julian  A.  Barbot, 
Charleston;  Edward  S.  Burnham,  Charleston,  Chairman;  M.  H. 
Sandifer,  Rock  Hill,  Secretary. 
TEXAS  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
Tne  Texas  Pnarmaceutical  Association  held  its  annual  meeting  at 
Dallas,  May  1 5 th— 1 7th.  President  Hazlett  urged  the  Association  to 
greater  effort  toward  securing  the  passage  of  a  pharmacy  law  which 
will  meet  all  the  requirements  of  the  drug  trade.  He  thought  much 
good  would  come  from  the  work  of  the  National  Association  of 
Retail  Druggists,  and  suggested  the  organization  of  local  associa- 
tions in  every  city  and  county  to  help  the  work  along.  The  repeal 
of  the  stamp  tax  was  also  urged. 
The  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  R.  H.  Walker,  reported  a  cash  bal- 
ance of  $314.  The  Committee  on  President's  Address  approved  the 
various  recommendations  made,  and  suggested  that  a  committee  be 
appointed  to  draft  a  law  which  will  follow  the  bill  drafted  by  the 
Association  in  1898,  and  embodying  the  following  points:  That  no 
certificate  shall  be  issued  to  any  person  upon  presentation  of  a 
diploma  ;  that  no  one  shall  be  allowed  to  present  him  or  herself  for 
examination  before  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  except  he  or  she  shall 
have  had  four  years'  experience,  at  least  two  of  which  shall  have  been 
spent  in  the  compounding  and  dispensing  of  prescriptions  under  the 
supervision  of  a  "  registered  pharmacist,"  or  in  lieu  thereof  upon 
