526  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.    { ^ptemberfS?' 
THE  PEDAGOGICS  OF  PHARMACEUTICAL  EDUCATION. 
By  Joseph  Feil. 
The  next  paper  was  entitled 
TO  WHAT  EXTENT  SHOULD  A  CANDIDATE  FOR  REGISTRATION 
IN  PHARMACY  BE  REQUIRED  TO  BE  FAMILIAR  WITH  THE 
SUBJECTS  OF  MICROSCOPY  AND  VOLUMETRIC  ANALYSIS  ? 
By  T.  B.  Reed. 
It  was  in  answer  to  a  query  by  the  Section.  The  author  said  : 
"As  a  man  might  be  a  safe  man  and  a  successful  pharmacist  without  any 
practice  in  Volumetric  Analysis  or  Microscopy,  the  best  proof  of  which  is  that 
many  of  the  prosperous,  and  even  leading  men,  who  are  appointed  to  Boards, 
have  no  practical  knowledge  of  these  subjects,  it  seems  to  me  that  Volumetric 
Analysis  and  Microscopy  need  not  be  included  in  Board  examinations  for  regis- 
tration." 
The  matter  was  discussed  by  Messrs.  Alpers,  Stevens,  Sheppard,  Bartley, 
Thompson  and  Whelpley. 
A  COMPARATIVE  EXHIBIT  OF  UNITED  STATES  PHARMACY  LAWS. 
By  J.  H.  Beal. 
This  gentleman  has  been  engaged  for  several  years  past  in  making  a  thorough 
study  of  pharmaceutical  legislat  on,  and  the  members  of  the  Section  expressed 
themselves  as  appreciative  of  this  fact. 
SOME  ODDITIES  IN  PHARMACY  LAWS, 
By  J.  H.  Beal, 
clearly  showed  the  contradictory  and  irregular  ways  in  which  many  of  the 
State  laws  are  framed.    An  answer  to  a  query 
CONCERNING  THE  SALE  OF  INTOXICATING  LIQUORS  BY 
DRUGGISTS. 
By  H.  M.  Whitney. 
Mr.  Sheppard  explained  the  state  of  affairs  in  this  matter  in  Massachusetts. 
Mr.  Ebert  was  of  the  opinion  that  if  the  spirituous  liquors  were  dropped  from 
the  Pharmacopoeia  many  druggists  who  deal  largely  in  these  would  go  out  of 
business,  the  latter  being  thereby  improved. 
PRACTICE  VS.  THEORY. 
By  S.  P.  Watson. 
CONCERNING  UNIFORMITY  OF  PHARMACEUTICAL  LEGISLATION. 
By  J.  H.  Beal. 
He  said  : 
The  United  States  had  forty-nine  pharmacy  laws,  and,  therefore,  forty-nine 
kinds  of  experience.  As  a  national  pharmacy  law  is  impossible  under  the 
present  Constitution,  Professor  Beal  offered  a  resolution  that  the  President 
appoint  a  committee  of  three  to  enter  into  consultation  with  the  State  Boards 
of  Pharmacy,  the  Committees  on  Pharmaceutical  Legislation  of  the  State  Asso- 
ciations and  the  Colleges  of  Pharmacy  of  the  United  States  and  Canada,  for 
the  purpose  of  drafting  the  form  of  a  model  pharmaceutical  law.  This  duty 
was  afterwards  referred  by  vote  to  the  officers  of  the  Section  on  Pharmaceutical 
Education  and  Legislation.  Reprints  of  Professor  Beal's  papers  were  ordered 
to  be  made  and  sent  to  the  State  Associations  and  Boards,  and  to  the  pharma- 
ceutical periodicals.    A  paper  was  then  presented,  entitled 
