Am.  Jour.  Pharm.\ 
July,  1893.  J 
Editorial. 
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PHARMACEUTICAL  COLLEGES  and  ASSOCIATIONS. 
The  Alabama  Pharmaceutical  Association  met,  in  its  12th  annual  conven- 
tion, at  Blount  Springs,  May  9.  Several  addresses  were  delivered,  a  number 
of  papers  read  at  the  various  sessions  and  the  Association  adjourned,  to  meet 
again  at  Anniston,  on  the  second  Tuesday  in  May,  1894.  The  newly  elected 
officers  are:  President,  E.  P.  Gait,  Selma  ;  secretary,  P.  C.  Candidus,  and 
treasurer,  E.  B.  Norton. 
The  Arkansas  Association  of  Pharmacists  held  its  eleventh  annual  conven- 
tion in  Little  Rock,  May  16,  President  Morton  in  the  chair.  The  sessions  were 
taken  up  by  the  usual  routine  business,  addresses,  reports  and  papers.  The 
officers  elected  for  the  ensuing  year  are  :  G.  N.  Hart,  Pine  Bluff,  president  ; 
J.  W.  Beidelman,  Little  Rock,  secretary,  and  J.  A.  Jungkind,  treasurer.  The 
next  annual  meeting  will  take  place  in  Little  Rock,  the  date  to  be  announced 
hereafter. 
The  Delaware  Pharmaceutical  Association  met  in  seventh  annual  conven- 
tion at  Wilmington,  May  4,  president  N.  B.  Danforth  in  the  chair.  The  usual 
routine  business  was  transacted,  and  president  N.  B.  Danforth,  secretary  John 
M.  Harvey  and  treasurer  J.  J.  Gallagher  were  all  re-elected  to  serve  another 
year.    The  association  will  again  meet  at  Wilmington  next  year. 
The  Florida  State  Pharmaceutical  Association  met  in  its  seventh  annual 
meeting  at  the  Placide  Hotel,  Pensacola,  president  N.  Wooldridge  in  the 
chair,  and  was  welcomed  by  the  Mayor,  Dr.  H.  Robinson.  A  large  share  of  the 
proceedings  was  taken  up  with  discussions  on  the  cutting  of  prices,  and  the 
Association  approved  the  platform  of  the  Interstate  Retail  Druggists'  League. 
The  officers  elected  are  :  President,  T.  S.  Chalker,  Lake  City  ;  secretary,  W.  H. 
Lightstone,  Jacksonville;  treasurer,  Ed.  Delouest,  Ocala.  Next  year  the 
Association  will  meet  in  Tampa,  on  the  third  Wednesday  in  May  ;  S.  B. 
Leonardi  is  the  local  secretary. 
EDITORIAL. 
Legislation  against  adulteration  — A  bill  introduced  by  Mr.  Hewit  was 
finally  passed  by  the  Legislature  of  Pennsylvania,  having  for  its  object  the  pre- 
vention of  "the  adulteration  of  drugs,  food  and  spirituous,  fermented  or  malt 
liquors  in  the  State  of  Pennsylvania."  The  definitions  of  the  terms  food, 
drugs  and  adulteration  are  practically  identical  with  those  contained  in  the 
national  adulteration  bill,  proposed  in  1890  (see  Amer.  Jour.  Phar.,  1890,  p. 
312).  Provision  has  been  made  for  the  appointment  of  public  analysts,  rnicro- 
scopistsand  chemists,  and  for  the  procuring  of  samples  from  manufacturers  or 
dealers,  under  the  supervision  of  the  State  Board  of  Health,  who  were  also 
empowered  to  declare  certain  articles  or  preparations  to  be  exempt  from  the 
provisions  of  this  act.  The  sale  of  arsenic,  strychnine,  corrosive  sublimate 
and  prussic  acid,  without  the  written  prescription  of  a  regular  physician,  was 
prohibited,  and  24  articles  or  groups  of  articles  are  especially  enumerated, 
together  with  their  admixtures  or  adulterations,  as  embraced  within  the  pro- 
visions of  the  penalty  of  Section  I,  viz :  not  exceeding  $500  for  the  first 
offence,  and  $1,000  or  imprisonment  for  one  y<tz.x  or  both  for  each  subsequent 
offence,  and  in  addition  a  penalty  of  $100  for  each  offence  on  complaint  of  a 
citizen,  one-half  to  go  to  the  prosecutor  and  the  balance  to  the  county. 
