8o 
Editorial 
(Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
(     February,  1920. 
tent  of  their  ability,  to  stimulate  and  promote  pharmaceutic  re- 
search and  many  valuable  contributions  have  resulted  from  their 
efforts. 
The  executive  committee  are  convinced  that  the  time  is  fully 
ripe  for  the  crystallization  of  the  sentiment  favoring  a  distinct 
pharmaceutical  research  and  the  combination  of  the  various  interests 
that  have  been  working  in  that  direction  into  a  united  movement  and 
concerted  action  to  bring  this  about.  They  propose  that  the  Ameri- 
can Pharmaceutical  Association  shall  take  the  initiative  and  propose 
the  establishment  of  The  American  PharmaceuticaIv  Research 
Endowment.  The  purpose  of  which  shall  be  to  promulgate,  system- 
atize and  coordinate  scientific  investigations  in  the  special  fields  open 
to  pharmacy  so  that  investigators  may  be  stimulated  and  scientific 
studies  carried  on  in  the  most  effective  manner  in  order  that  the 
greatest  volume  of  accurate  knowledge  may  be  collated  and  the 
greatest  benefit  accrue  to  mankind. 
The  plan  proposed  is  that  all  of  the  national  pharmaceutical, 
drug  and  chemical  organizations  shall  be  invited  to  join  in  the  foun- 
dation, of  the  Research  Endowment ;  that  the  management  and  con- 
trol of  the  funds  and  the  research  shall  be  under  the  direction  of  a 
Board  of  Trustees  to  be  composed  of  one  representative  selected 
by  each  of  the  organizations  joining  in  the  incorporation  and  foun- 
dation of  the  endowment.  Contributions,  donations  and  bequests 
to  this  endowment  are  to  be  solicited  from  corporations,  firms  and 
individuals.  These  shall  have  the  privilege  of  endowing  special 
professorial  chairs,  fellowships  or  to  make  contributions  to  be  ap- 
plied toward  any  particular  line  of  investigation  desired.  The 
trustees  shall  have  power  to  invest  and  reinvest  the  funds  and  se- 
curities of  the  endowment,  to  select  a  director  of  research  and  to 
organize  a  staff  of  assistants,  students  and  investigators,  to  make 
grants  and  awards,  to  acquire  by  rent,  purchase  or  acceptance, 
suitable  offices,  buildings  and  grounds  and  the  equipment  needed; 
to  organize  such  a  force  of  clerks  and  assistants  as  may  be  necessary 
and  to  perform  all  acts  required  for  the  carrying  into  effect  the  work 
and  plans  of  the  endowment. 
The  broad  view  taken  and  the  comprehensive  plan  thus  outlined 
is  presented  to  the  pharmacists  of  America  and  to  the  public  who  are 
to  reap  the  greatest  good  therefrom  with  the  expectation  that  it 
will  receive  careful  and  critical  consideration.  It  is  a  basic  plan  on 
which  the  various  drug  trade  organizations  and  scientific  bodies  of 
