444  Convention  of  Pharmaceutical  Colleges.  {AVcT!;f872RM* 
G.  Steele,  San  Francisco;  Hampden  Osborne,  Columbus,  Miss.  ;  Rob- 
ert J.  Brown,  Leavenworth,  and  Ottmar  Eberbach,  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.) 
was  appointed  to  take  into  consideration  the  subject  of  elixirs  and 
similar  unofficinal  preparations,  in  all  its  bearings  upon  pharmacy, 
and,  if  deemed  proper,  to  report  suitable  formulas  for  the  guidance 
of  the  members  of  this  Association. 
After  the  election  of  several  new  members,  the  Association  ad- 
journed, to  meet  again  in  the  City  of  Richmond,  Va.,  on  the  third 
Tuesday  of  September,  1873,  at  3  o'clock  P.  M. 
THE  THIRD  CONVENTION  OF  THE  TEACHING  COLLEGES  OF 
PHARMACY  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES. 
At  the  eighteenth  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  held  in  Baltimore  1870,  a  convention  of  pharmaceutical 
societies  met  pursuant  to  a  call  of  the  Maryland  College,  and  discussed 
several  important  questions  relating  to  pharmaceutical  apprenticeship 
and  education.  These  transactions  were  reported  in  the  "American 
Journal  of  Pharmacy,"  1870,  pages  500 — 504.  In  order  to  confine 
the  deliberations  of  this  body  strictly  to  educational  subjects  and  to 
matters  relating  to  the  welfare  of  the  colleges  of  pharmacy ;  also  to 
avoid  here  the  discussion  of  subjects  of  immediate  interest  to  the  pro- 
fession at  large,  which  properly  belong  to  the  objects  of  the  national 
Association,  it  was  deemed  best  to  limit  these  conventions  to  the  rep- 
resentatives of  the  teaching  colleges,  and,  at  St.  Louis,  in  September, 
1871,  a  constitution  was  adopted  providing  for  an  annual  meeting  to 
take  place  at  the  time  and  place  of  the  annual  meetings  of  the  Ameri- 
can Pharmaceutical  Association.  Mr.  E.  H.  Sargent  was  elected 
President,  and  Professor  J.  Faris  Moore,  Secretary.  A  committee, 
consisting  of  Professors  Moore  and  Maisch,  was  appointed  to  suggest 
subjects  for  discussion  at  the  third  convention,  and  to  give  timely  no- 
tice of  the  same  to  the  different  teaching  colleges.  The  questions 
agreed  upon  by  this  committee  were  published  on  pages  329  and  330 
of  the  July  number  of  this  Journal. 
The  third  convention  met  at  the  Kennard  House,  in  the  City  of 
Cleveland,  on  the  evening  of  September  5th,  when  Dr.  Charles  A. 
Tufts  was  elected  President  and  Professor  J.  M.  Maisch,  Secretary. 
The  Colleges  of  Pharmacy  of  Massachusetts,  New  York,  Philadel- 
phia, Maryland,  Cincinnati,  Louisville,  St.  Louis  and  Chicago,  and 
the  Columbia  College  School  of  Pharmacy,  were  represented. 
