AmMayri^8arm"}  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  371 
The  report  was  discussed  by  Mr.  Beringer  and  ordered  referred 
to  the  Committee  on  Museum  with  power  to  act. 
Report  of  the  Acting  Editor  of  the  American  Journal  of 
Pharmacy. — The  events  of  the  past  year  have  placed  upon  the 
acting  editor  the  responsibility  of  making  an  annual  report  cover- 
ing largely  the  work  of  others.  As  his  service,  in  this  capacity, 
began  with  October  and  had  only  to  do  with  the  last  two  monthly 
issues  of  the  89th  volume,  he  fears  that  you  may  have  to  pardon 
the  omission  of  much  of  the  usual  details  of  preceding  reports  of  the 
editor.  The  withdrawal  of  the  editor  during  the  year,  and  the 
decease  of  such  prominent  members  of  the  Committee  on  Publica- 
tion as  Dr.  M.  I.  Wilbert  and  Professor  Joseph  P.  Remington,  have 
made  gaps  which  it  is  difficult  to  fill. 
The  89th  volume  of  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy  was 
issued  in  the  regular  monthly  numbers  during  the  year  191 7.  It  has 
maintained  fully  its  position  as  the  ethical  pharmaceutical  journal 
of  America,  in  which  is  recorded  the  best  work  of  pharmaceutical 
and  allied  investigators  in  a  permanent  form  for  study  and  reference. 
The  number  of  pages  printed  in  this  volume  has  been  somewhat  in 
excess  of  that  in  recent  years  and  may  be  exceeded  even  more  in  the 
present  year. 
More  than  seventy  original  papers  have  been  published  during 
the  year,  covering  a  very  wide  range  of  topics.  This  number  is 
exclusive  of  book  reviews,  obituary  notices,  trade  interest  notes, 
etc.,  which  have  been  continued  throughout  the  monthly  numbers  as 
usual.  In  addition  many  articles  have  been  reprinted  or  abstracted 
from  other  publications.  The  meetings  of  the  College  and  of  various 
pharmaceutical  and  drug  trade  organizations  have  likewise  been 
reported  in  its  pages.  The  value  of  the  original  papers  that  have 
been  published  in  the  Journal  is  shown  by  the  frequency  with  which 
they  are  republished  and  referred  to  in  our  contemporaries. 
The  papers  and  many  of  the  reprinted  articles  exhibit  the  spirit 
of  the  time  and  the  existing  conditions  under  which  not  only  the 
policies,  history  and  boundaries  of  many  nations  are  being  revo- 
lutionized, but  likewise  the  scientific  methods  and  professional  prac- 
tices are  being  recast.  This  gigantic  war  has  introduced  numerous 
new  problems  in  medicine,  surgery  and  pharmacy  and  the  space  avail- 
able in  the  Journal  is  being  taxed  to  properly  present  these  to  our 
readers.  The  importance  of  these  demand  the  fullest  detailed  state- 
ments possible  and  the  widest  circulation  of  the  information  so  that 
