Ain.  Jour.  Pharm.  1 
August,  1900  J 
Notes  and  News. 
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NOTES  AND  NEWS. 
H.  C.  Wood,  President  of  the  U.S. P.  Convention  for  1910,  is  now  in  Japan 
and  not  expected  back  till  about  the  time  the  year's  work  begins  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania. 
S.  P.  SadteER  is  revising  his  "  Handbook  of  Industrial  Organic  Chemistry,'* 
a  new  edition  of  which  is  expected  some  time  in  September. 
Joseph  P.  Remington  is  expected  shortly  to  attend  the  International 
Pharmaceutical  Congress  in  Paris. 
ChareES  F.  Chandler  has  received  the  degree  of  D.Sc.  honoris  causa  from 
the  University  at  Oxford. 
Henry  H.  Rusby  has  written  the  Materia  Medica  for  Buck's  Reference 
Handbook  of  the  Medical  Sciences. 
W.  O.  RichTmann,  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin,  while  on  a  recent  visit 
in  Eastern  cities,  informed  us  that  R.  H.  Denniston,  of  the  same  Uni- 
versity, was  endeavoring  to  do  a  similar  work  at  that  University  as  J.  O. 
Schlotterbeck,  at  the  University  of  Michigan  (see  this  Journal,  1900,  p.  203), 
in  utilizing  the  grounds  for  the  purpose  of  growing  medicinal  and  other  econ- 
omical plants  for  class  or  research  work. 
W.  Iv.  ScoviEEE  is  contributing  an  interesting  series  of  articles  to  the  Bulletin 
of  Pharmacy  on  "Pharmaceutical  Testing." 
Rodney  H.  True  has  been  appointed  Lecturer  on  Plant  Physiology  at 
Harvard  University. 
Harry  B.  Mason,  of  Detroit,  Mich.,  has  a  valuable  article  on  "  The  Urgent 
Need  of  Pure  Food  Reform,"  in  the  June  number  of  The  Outlook. 
Miss  Mae  Thompson  Harders,  P. CP.,  '93,  has  been,$  appointed  Demon- 
strator in  Pharmacy  at  the  Woman's  Medical  College,  of  Philadelphia,  to 
succeed  F.  G.  Ryan,  resigned. 
J.  K.  Morrison,  an  ex-President  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion, succeeds  the  late  T.  D.  Reidas  Professor  of  Pharmacy  and  Materia  Medica 
at  the  Montreal  College  of  Pharmacy. 
H.  BeckurTS,  one  of  the  editors  of  the  Apotheker  Zeitung,  has  been  ap_ 
pointed  Rector  of  the  Technische  Hochschule  of  Braunschweig. 
The  Pharmacopoeia  Convention  was  incorporated  on  July  11,  1900.  The 
incorporators  are  Wm.  S.  Thompson,  George  L.  Magruier,  John  T.  Winter, 
Thomas  C.  Smith,  F.  M.  Criswell,  Murray  Gott  Motter  and  Wm.  Iv.  Mew. 
The  period  of  incorporation  is  999  years.  The  affairs,  funds  and  property  are 
vested  in  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
The  Graduate,  the  class  annual  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
edited  and  published  by  the  Class  of  1900,  has  just  been  issued. 
The  Proceedings  oe  the  Missouri  Pharmaceutical  Association  of  the 
meeting  held  June  12-15,  l9^,  are  published  an  I  distributed  one  mouth  after 
the  meeting. 
