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Current  Literature. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
October,  1920. 
and  prohibition  laws  that  the  confidence  of  Congress  and  of  the 
Legislatures  in  the  integrity  and  honor  of  the  pharmaceutical  pro- 
fession has  not  been  misplaced.  We  denounce  infractions  of  these 
laws  not  only  as  a  menace  to  public  welfare  but  likewise  as  inimical 
to  our  entire  profession  and  believe  that  the  violators  who  thus 
debase  their  calling  merit  the  extreme  penalties  of  the  law  and 
elimination  from  pharmaceutical  associations  and  practice. 
Dr.  P.  S.  Stout  added  that  the  physicians  present  endorse  these 
resolutions  and  pledge  hearty  cooperation  in  carrying  out  the  pro- 
vision mentioned,  and  the  resolutions  were  unanimously  adopted 
and  directed  to  be  given  the  widest  publicity. 
Prof.  C.  B.  Lowe  for  Mr.  B.  S.  Gatchell  presented  a  copy  of  the 
first  edition  of  the  United  States  Dispensatory.  The  thanks  of  the 
College  were  voted  to  the  donor. 
The  tellers  reported  as  the  result  of  the  election  for  trustees  that 
W.  Duffield  Robinson,  George  M.  Beringer,  Jacob  M.  Baer,  Richard 
M.  Shoemaker  and  H.  K.  Mulford  had  been  elected  for  one  year, 
and  Joseph  W.  England,  Otto  Kraus,  O.  W.  Osterlund  and  Samuel 
P.  Sadtler  had  been  elected  for  two  years,  and  Wm.  L.  Cliffe,  Russell 
T.  Blackwood,  Benjamin  T.  Fairchild  and  Walter  A.  Rumsey  had 
been  elected  for  three  years. 
Prof.  LaWall,  for  Mr.  Norman  Dean,  presented  several  old 
articles  of  pharmaceutical  apparatus  to  the  College.  A  vote  of 
thanks  was  tendered  the  donor.  C.  A.  WkidEmann,  M.D., 
Secretary. 
CURRENT  LITERATURE. 
SCIENTIFIC  AND  TECHNICAL  ABSTRACTS. 
Distribution  and  Migration  of  Copper  in  Plant  Tissues. — 
Copper  is  universally  distributed  in  all  plants.  By  means  of  the 
very  delicate  zinc-copper  ferrocyanide  reaction  the  authors  have 
been  enabled  to  follow  its  distribution  in  various  organs  of  the  same 
plant.  As  the  result  of  a  great  number  of  determinations  on  nearly 
thirty  different  species,  including  common  trees,  shrubs,  culinary 
vegetables,  fruits,  and  herbs,  it  is  found  that  copper  occurs  in  all 
parts  of  the  plant.  At  the  same  time,  it  is  not  evenly  distributed, 
but  is  found  on  those  parts  which  possess  the  highest  vital  activity. 
Speaking  generally,  apart  from  the  process  of  ripening  of  the  seed, 
