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Editorial. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1920. 
Uppermost  topics  for  several  years  and  this  not  only  occupied  atten- 
tion through  the  presidential  reference  to  the  subject  but  cropped 
out  in  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Research  and  also  in  the 
discussions  in  the  sessions  of  the  Association  and  of  its  Council. 
The  President's  estimate  of  the  Council  and  its  work  and  es- 
pecially that  of  the  Executive'  Committee  of  the  Council  which 
merited  his  approval  is  in  marked  contrast  with  some  of  the  criti- 
cisms that  have  been  made  of  the  actions  and  recommendations 
emanating  from  the  St.  Louis  meeting  of  this  Committee  held  during 
the  year. 
Following  the  reading  of  the  President's  address  the  Nominating 
Committee  was  appointed  and  again  discharged  its  duty  in  the  same 
way  that  has  been  so  frequently  criticized  and  which  by  a  majority 
vote  the  members  present  at  a  later  meeting  determined  to  continue. 
An  adjourned  meeting  was  neld  on  Thursday  evening  preceding 
the  President's  reception.  An  address  was  delivered  by  Dr.  C.  E. 
McClung,  representing  the  Division  of  Medical  Sciences  of  the 
National  Research  Council.  The  speaker  detailed  the  methods 
that  had  been  adopted  for  the  organization  of  this  Research  Council 
and  the  distribution  of  the  millions  of  dollars  that  had  been  sub- 
scribed for  promulgating  scientific  researches.  It  was  only  too  ap- 
parent to  his  audience  that  the  possibilities  of  pharmacy  as  one  of  the 
most  important  fields  for  research  for  the  benefit  of  mankind  had 
not  been  given  proper  consideration. 
Happily,  Prof.  J.  U.  Lloyd  was  called  upon  to  respond  to  Dr. 
McClung  and  in  his  inimitable  manner  he  very  cleverly  pointed  out 
the  inexhaustible  fields  from  which  pharmacy  draws  her  stores; 
how  every  portion  of  the  globe,  every  natural  kingdom,  the  air  and 
earth  and  its  mines,  as  well  as  the  animals  and  vegetation  that  thrived 
thereon,  supplied  the  remedial  agents  employed  by  the  pharmacist 
and  the  unlimited  fields  for  investigation  for  the  advancement  of 
science  and  the  sum  of  human  knowledge  to  the  benefit  of  mankind 
was  opened  through  pharmaceutical  research  in  the  special  fields 
that  the  researches  spoken  of  as  contemplated  did  not  cover. 
Despite  the  fact  that  but  eight  months  had  elapsed  since  the 
prior  meeting  was  held  in  New  York,  there  was  no  lack  of  papers  and 
each  section  was  able  to  arrange  an  interesting  program.  In  recent 
years  the  Section  on  Commercial  Interests  has  forged  ahead  with 
addresses  on  timely  subjects  by  leading  authorities  and  this  again 
was  in  evidence  at  the  Washington  meeting.    On  Saturday  morning, 
