422  Pharmaceutical  Colleges,  etc.  {AaJ^itum!K' 
The  New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Asscciation  held  its  semi-annual  meeting 
at  the  United  States  Hotel,  at  Long  Branch,  August  14th,  at  12  o'clock  noon. 
The  President,  Dr.  E.  P.  Nichols,  occupied  the  chair;  Mr.  G.  H.  White.  Sec- 
retary. After  the  call  of  the  roll  and  the  reading  of  the  minutes  of  the  annual 
meeting,  Mr.  Jas.  R.  Mercein  presented  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Que- 
ries, seven  of  which  were  subsequently  accepted  by  members  to  be  reported 
on  in  February  next.  Mr.  Wm.  Rust,  on  the  part  of  an  Investigation  Com- 
mittee appointed  at  the  annual  meeting  to  investigate  the  charges  preferred 
against  two  members,  reported  that  the  charges  against  one  were  not  sustained, 
and  thatW.  H.  Pancoast,  who  had  been  accused  of  immoral  and  unprofessional 
conduct,  had  failed  to  answer  the  summons  of  the  Committee  ;  after  some  dis- 
cussion his  name  was  ordered  to  be  dropped  from  the  roll. 
Mr.  G.  H.  White,  from  the  Committee  on  Ethics,  reported  a  code  of  ethics 
which  is  substantially  the  same  as  that  adopted  by  the  New  York  College  of 
Pharmacy,*  aad  was  afterwards  unanimously  adopted.  One  thousand  copies 
were  ordered  to  be  printed  for  distribution. 
Dr.  Nichols  and  Mr.  R.  Rickey  reported  verbally  on  the  defeat  of  the  Phar- 
macy bill  during  the  last  session  of  the  New  Jersey  Legislature. 
After  deciding  by  vote  that  this  is  a  local  organization,  and  its  members 
should  be  residents  or  doing  business  in  the  State  of  New  Jersey,  Messrs.  Theo- 
bald and  Max  Frohwein  were  elected  honorary  members. 
The  afternoon  session  was  mainly  occupied  by  discussing  several  provisions 
of  the  law,  introduced  or  amended  by  the  Legislature.  The  failure  of  the  ef- 
forts made  during  the  last  three  years,  to  secure  efficient  legislation,  appeared 
to  have  had  a  disheartening  effect  upon  some  members,  but  attention  was  drawn 
to  the  time  required  in  several  other  States,  and  particularly  in  Great  Britain, 
where  the  pharmacists  labored  about  thirteen  years  to  secure  the  first  pharma- 
ceutical law.  The  Association  then  directed  the  appointment  of  a  Committee 
of  three  to  prosecute  the  subject  before  the  next  Legislature  to  the  best  of 
their  ability,  and  appropriated  $100  to  defray  the  necessary  expenses.  Messrs. 
C.  H.  Dalrymple,  R.  W.  Gardener  and  R.  Rickey  were  appointed  this  Com- 
mittee. 
The  following  delegates  to  the  next  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  were  appointed  :  R.  W.  Gardener,  G.  E.  Carmen,  C.  C.  Wells, 
Omar  Barton  and  C.  W.  Badger. 
After  the  election  of  members  and  the  payment  of  bills,  the  Association  ad- 
journed, to  convene  again  at  the  annual  meeting  to  be  held  at  Trenton  in  Feb- 
ruary next. 
*See  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  1871,  p.  519. 
