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We  are  pleased  to  learn  that  the  registration  of  pharmacists  progresses  satis- 
factorily, and  that  the  law  has  been  so  favorably  received  that  its  provisions 
are  likely  to  be  extended  in  a  few  years  so  as  to  embrace  the  entire  State.  The 
prospects  for  the  organization  of  a  State  pharmaceutical  association  appear 
to  be  very  favorable,  and  we  hope  will  be  stimulated  by  the  next  meeting  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  which  will  be  held  in  the  City  of  Louis- 
ville in  September  next. 
St.  Louis  College  of  Pharmacy. — We  rejoice  to  see  the  good  work  of 
pharmaceutical  regulation  make  such  favorable  progress.  St.  Louis  has  now 
been  added  to  the  number  of  large  cities  in  which  such  regulation  is  attempted. 
The  law,  as  approved  February  2d,  gives  the  above-named  college  the  right  to 
elect  a  board  of  pharmacy,  consisting  of  five  members,  the  other  provisions  of 
the  law  being  similar  to  those  of  the  older  ones.  The  first  board  has  been 
organized  as  follows:  Theo.  Kalb,  President ;  Justin  Steer,  Se cretary ;  Chas, 
Habicht,  Francis  X.  Crawley  and  J.  M.  Good. 
St.  Clair  Pharmaceutical  Association  of  Southern  Illinois. — At  the 
regular  quarterly  meeting,  held  June  9th,  the  reception  of  a  set  of  Proceedings 
of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  from  the  Executive  Committee 
of  this  body  was  announced,  and  a  vote  of  thanks  passed  unanimously.  The 
following  delegates  to  the  next  meeting  of  the  National  Association  were  then 
appointed  :  Wm.  Feickert,  Wm.  Kempf,  Jr.,  Chas.  Muehlheims  and  A.  G.  F. 
Streit,  Ph.  D. 
Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain. — At  the  pharmaceutical  meet- 
ing held  May  6th,  Mr.  Thos.  H.  Hills  in  the  chair,  Mr.  Gostling  read  a  note 
on  adulterated  opium  ;  he  found  in  a  piece  of  opium  weighing  28  oz.  a  lump  of 
clayey  earth,  2J  oz.  in  weight,  being  nearly  ten  per  cent,  of  the  weight  of  the 
opium.  Afterwards  a  note,  by  Mr.  E.  Smith,  on  the  Additions  to  the  British 
Pharmacopoeia,  was  read,  and  a  general  discussion  ensued,  during  which  Mr. 
Bland  very  properly  remarked  that  it  was  much  easier  to  criticise  processes  de- 
scribed than  to  suggest  new  ones  which  should  be  unassailable.  The  meeting 
subsequently  adjourned  till  next  fall. 
The  thirty-third  annual  general  meeting  was  held  at  17  Bloomsbury  square, 
London,  May  20th.  A  portrait  of  Mr.  T.  N.  R.  Morson  was  presented,  and 
the  annual  reports  read  and  discussed.  A  new  Council,  to  serve  for  the  ensu- 
ing year,  was  elected,  and  this  organized  on  June  3d,  by  re-electing  the  old 
officers,  viz.,  Thos.  H.  Hills,  President;  Alex.  Bottle,  Vice-President;  Mr. 
Williams,  Treasurer;  Elias  Bremridge,  Secretary  and  Registrar,  and  Richard 
Bremridge,  his  assistant.  A  deputation,  consisting  of  Messrs.  Greenish  and 
Sutton,  was  appointed  to  represent  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Brit- 
ain at  the  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress,  to  be  held  at  St.  Petersburg 
in  August  next;  the  sum  of  £80  was  set  apart  to  defray  the  expenses,  and 
