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Book  Reviews. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
July,  1920 
the  Establishment  of  Two  Classes  of  Pharmacists  and  Corresponding 
Courses  in  Colleges  of  Pharmacy — Jacob  Dine^,  of  New  York, 
Chairman. 
Special  Committee  to  Work  Out  Methods  of  Presenting  the 
Advantages  of  Pharmacy  as  a  Calling  to  High  School  Students — 
J.  A.  Koch,  of  Pittsburgh,  Chairman. 
Special  Committee  to  Prepare  and  Distribute  Information  on 
Pre-requisite  Legislation — W.  B.  Day,  of  Illinois,  Chairman. 
All  of  these  committee  reports  will  be  published  in  the  proceedings 
of  the  Conference  and  several  of  them  will  appear  in  other  publica- 
tions. 
The  West  Virginia  University  Course  of  Pharmacy  was  elected 
to  membership  in  the  Conference. 
The  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  ensuing  year: 
President,  Wilber  J.  Teeters,  of  Iowa  City,  Iowa. 
Vice-President,  Washington  H.  Keigler,  of  Charleston,  South 
Carolina. 
Secretary-Treasurer,  Theodore  J.  Bradley,  of  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts. 
Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee,  Rufus  A.  Lyman,  of 
Lincoln,  Neb. 
Members  of  the  Executive  Committee — Julius  A.  Koch,  of 
Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  and  Wortley  F.  Rudd,  of  Richmond,  Vir- 
ginia. 
Member  of  the  Syllabus  Committee,  1920-192 7,  William  C. 
Anderson,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York. 
BOOK  REVIEWS. 
Laboratory  Manuai,  of  Coi^i^oid  Chemistry.    By  Emil  Hatschek. 
Small  8vo.,  131  pages,  contents,  indexes  and  twenty  illustrations. 
Philadelphia,  P.  Blakiston's  Son  &  Co.    $2.00  net. 
If  we  could  make  the  somewhat  grotesque  supposition  that  Thomas 
Graham  might  return  in  the  flesh,  he  would  be  greatly  astonished  to 
see  how  his  acorn  has  grown  to  a  forest.  Introducing,  as  he  did, 
more  than  half  a  century  ago  the  terms  "colloid"  and  "crystalloid," 
and  describing  many  striking  and  interesting  procedure?  oased  on 
the  differing  properties  of  the  two  types  of  substances,  the  deeper 
significance  of  his  researches  remained  for  a  long  while  unknown. 
