672         Conference  of  Pharmaceutical  Faculties  {Am'^tr\^iirm' 
completed  one  to  three  years  of  high  school  work.  It  was  also  re- 
ported that  the  Carnegie  Foundation  has  promised  to  give  early 
attention  to  the  question  of  the  investigation  and  classification  of 
pharmacy  schools  in  a  manner  similar  to  the  investigation  made  of 
medical  schools  a  few  years  ago. 
The  report  of  the  executive  committee  also  dealt  with  the  ques- 
tion of  military  instruction  for  students  in  colleges  of  pharmacy  and 
this  subject  was  discussed  at  length.  It  appears  likely  that  students 
will  be  allowed  to  enlist  in  a  reserve  army  for  military  instruction, 
and  it  is  to  be  the  policy  of  the  government  that  they  be  not  called 
for  service,  except  in  great  emergency,  until  their  college  courses 
are  completed,  provided  that  their  college  work  is  of  satisfactory 
quality. 
The  report  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Syllabus  Committee  was  pre- 
sented by  W.  C.  Anderson  of  New.  York.  This  committee  reported 
that  the  preparation  of  the  third  edition  of  the  Syllabus  is  well  under 
way,  and  the  Conference  voted  to  continue  its  annual  contribution 
of  twenty-five  dollars  towards  the  expenses  of  this  committee. 
Memoirs  of  the  services  to  pharmaceutical  education  of  men  who 
have  passed  away  during  the  past  year  were  presented  as  follows : 
J.  P.  Remington,  by  W.  B.  Day  ;  Charles  Caspari,  Jr.,  by  E.  F. 
Kelly;  A.  B.  Huested,  by  William  Mansfield;  and  J.  H.  Long,  by  M. 
A.  Miner. 
Reports  were  received  from  the  nine  standing  committees  and 
from  one  special  committee,  which  included  matter  of  much  value, 
which  will  appear  in  the  annual  volume  of  the  proceedings  of  the 
conference. 
The  conference  voted  to  instruct  its  secretary  to  communicate  to 
the  Surgeon  General  of  the  United  States  Army  its  belief  in  the 
erroneousness  of  a  statement  widely  published  and  attributed  to  an 
•  officer  in  the  Surgeon  General's  office,  that  there  are  but  eight 
reputable  and  worthy  schools  of  pharmacy  in  the  United  States. 
The  officers  of  the  conference  elected  and  installed  for  the  en- 
suing year  are :  President,  Charles  B.  Jordan,  Purdue  University 
School  of  Pharmacy,  Lafayette,  Ind. ;  Vice-President,  William 
Mansfield,  Albany  College  of  Pharmacy,  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  Secretary- 
Treasurer,  Theodore  J.  Bradley,  Massachusetts  College  of  Phar- 
macy, Boston;  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee,  Julius  A. 
Koch,  Pittsburgh  College  of  Pharmacy,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
