41 2  Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations.  { Am  Aug.r'iSarrn" 
PHARMACEUTICAL  COLLEGES  and  ASSOCIATIONS. 
The  Kansas  State  Pharmaceutical  Association  met  in  its  fourth  annual  meet- 
ing at  Wichita,  May  23.  A  large  number  of  papers  were  read,  among  them 
the  following :  Percentage  of  moisture  and  extractive  in  crude  drugs,  by  D.  C. 
Liemance  ;  estimation  of  colchicum  preparations,  by  E.  F.  Walleck  ;  drug  and 
plant  analysis,  and  insects  injurious  to  drugs,  by  L.  E.  Sayre  ;  aseptol,  by 
L.  H.  Bergman  ;  and  the  quality  and  coloring  power  of  commercial  pigments, 
by  M.  Noll.  The  officers  for  the  ensuing  year  are  :  F.  W.  Atkins,  Girard, 
president ;  Mrs.  M.  O.  Miner,  Hiawatha,  secretary  ;  H.  W.  Spangler,  Perry, 
treasurer.    The  next  annual  meeting  will  take  place  at  Salina. 
The  Kentucky  Pharmaceutical  Association  was  called  to  order  by  President 
Geier  on  May  23,  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  where  it  was  convened  in  its  sixteenth 
annual  meeting.  The  first  session  was  taken  up  with  addresses  of  welcome, 
president's  address,  and  committee  reports  ;  and  was  followed  by  the  reading 
of  papers  and  election  of  officers,  which  resulted  as  follows  :  President,  Robt. 
J.  Snyder,  Louisville;  secretary,  J.  W.  Gayle,  Frankfort;  treasurer,  Wm. 
Morris,  Paris.  The  Association  will  meet  again  in  May,  1894,  in  Paris  ;  the 
local  secretary  being  C.  J.  Clark. 
The  Louisiana  Pharmaceutical  Association  was  called  to  order  May  2, 
by  president  L.  F.  Chalin,  in  New  Orleans.  Besides  the  president's  address  and 
the  various  ,  committee  reports,  the  association  listened  to  an  interesting  paper 
on  "  Deterioration  of  Drugs  "  by  J.  H.  Storck.  The  newly  elected  officers 
are:  President,  P.  A.  Capdeau ;  corresponding  secretary,  J.  A.  Legendre  ; 
recording  secretary,  Mrs.  E.  Rudolph,  and  treasurer,  E.  Lalmant,  all  of  New 
Orleans. 
The  Minnesota  State  Pharmaceutical  Association  met  in  its  ninth  annual 
meeting  at  Hotel  St.  Louis,  Lake  Minnetonka,  June  13  and  14,  President 
C.  R.  J.  Kellam  in  the  chair,  who  in  his  annual  address  expressed  his  views  of 
pharmaceutical  legislation  in  the  State.  Various  reports  and  papers  were  sub- 
mitted, among  which  latter,  was  one  by  F.  J.  Wulling  on  the  pharmacal  pro- 
fession, and  two  by  L.  A.  Harding,  on  "  the  relation  of  chemistry  to  pharmacy" 
and  "glycerin  suppositories."  The  officers  for  the  ensuing  year  are  J.  E. 
Stiles,  president,  and  Chas.  T.  Heller,  secretary  and  treasurer.  The  next 
meeting  place  will  be  Lake  Minnetonka  and  the  date  June  12-13,  1894. 
The  Mississippi  Pharmaceutical  Association,  at  its  annual  convention  in 
Jackson,  May  9,  discussed  various  topics  bearing  on  Pharmaceutical  legislation, 
and  after  their  routine  business  was  disposed  of,  elected  the  following  officers  : 
H.  F.  West,  president ;  Carson  Lemly,  secretary,  and  O.  Lillybeck,  treasurer. 
The  next  meeting  will  take  place  in  Jackson,  in  May,  1894. 
The  New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Association  convened  in  Atlantic  City  on 
May  24,  and  listened  to  various  addresses,  in  addition  to  the  regular  routine. 
The  following  officers  were  elected  :  E.  B.  Jones,  Mount  Holly,  president  ; 
W.  C.  Alpers,  Bayonne,  secretary,  and  Wm.  M.  Townley,  Newark,  treasurer. 
The  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association  held  its  16th  annual  meet- 
nig,  June  13-15  at  Eureka  Springs,  Saegertown  (near  Meadville). 
The  place  chosen  was  a  delightful  one  upon  the  banks  of  French  creek,  and  the 
