Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  \ 
Becemher,  1899.  J 
Notes  and  News. 
XXXV 
NOTES  AND  NEWS. 
American  Pharm aceuTical  Association. — General  Secretary  Professor 
Charles  Caspari,  Jr.,  announces  that  "The  Council,  having  been  charged  with 
fixing  the  date  for  the  next  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  to  be  held  at  Richmond,  Va.,  in  1900,  has  decided  to  name  May  7 
to  12,  inclusive,  as  the  time  for  holding  the  meeting." 
The  Pennsylvania  State  Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board  will 
hold  its  next  meeting  in  the  Central  High  School  Building,  corner  Broad  and 
Green  Streets,  Philadelphia,  on  Saturday,  January  20,  1900,  between  the  hours 
of  12  and  5  p.m.  Application  blanks  and  all  other  information  will  be  furnished 
by  the  Secretary,  Charles  T.  George,  Harrisburg,  Pa. 
National  Association  of  Retail  Druggists. — The  office  of  the  national 
secretary,  Thos.  V.  Wooten,  has  been  removed  to  the  Association  Building, 
I53-I55  La  Salle  Street,  Chicago.  The  secretary's  office  is  the  property  of  the 
national  association  and  is  at  the  command  of  its  members  whenever  its  services 
can  be  used.  A  cordial  invitation  is  extended  to  the  membership  to  visit  the 
office  when  in  Chicago.  Each  member  of  the  N.  A.  R.  D.  should  fetl  that  he 
has  a  personal  interest  in  the  national  headquarters  and  the  work  being  done 
there  for  the  advancement  of  the  association's  welfare. 
Philadelphia  Association  ofReta.il  Druggists. — At  the  regular  meet- 
ing, on  November  3d,  J.  C.  Perry,  Chairman  Executive  Committee,  reported 
eight  new  members,  and  also  that  a  Committee  of  Three,  as  follows  :  Wm. 
Mclntyre,  Jas.  C.  Perry  and  W.  A.  Rumsey,  had  been  appointed  to  wait  on 
the  wholesale  houses  who  conducted  a  retail  counter  and  sold  goods  at  retail. 
The  Committee  hope  to  have  their  report  ready  by  the  next  meeting.  Presi- 
dent Mclntyre,  Chairman,  gave  a  report  of  the  delegates'  trip  to  Cincinnati. 
The  next  meeting  will  be  held  Friday,  December  1st,  at  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy,  at  3  p.m.  This  will  be  the  first  annual  meeting,  and 
officers  will  be  elected  to  serve  for  the  ensuing  year. 
Prof.  John  Uri  Uloyd  has  arranged  with  Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.  for  the  pub- 
lication of  his  book  "Stringtown  on  the  Pike."  This  work  promises  to  be 
even  more  original  and  unique  than  "  Etidorhpa,"  and  will  be  welcome  news, 
particularly  to  the  members  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
who  heard  some  selections  from  it  at  the  meeting  at  Put-in-Bay. 
A  Legal  Decision  on  Substitution. — A  decision  of  considerable  import- 
ance was  made  by  Judge  Kohlsaat  in  the  United  States  Circuit  Court  at  Chicago, 
on  October  13,  1899.  In  a  bill  for  an  injunction,  Fairchild  Brothers  &  Foster, 
of  New  York,  had  charged  a  Chicago  druggist  with  substituting  a  spurious  and 
inferior  preparation  for  "  Fairchild's  Essence  of  Pepsine, "  in  several  cases  where 
the  latter  was  expressly  called  for  in  physicians'  prescriptions.  Judge  Kohl- 
saat's  decree  sustains  the  charges  made,  perpetually  enjoins  the  druggist  from 
ever  repeating  the  offense  and  taxes  him  with  the  costs,  amounting  to  about 
$500.  "This  is  said  to  be  the  first  contested  case  in  the  United  States  in  which 
the  principle  of  protection  to  trade-marks  and  trade  names  was  extended  so  as 
to  apply  to  what  is  technically  known  in  the  drug  business  as  'substitution.' 
Judge  Kohlsaat's  decision  will  probably  protect  manufacturing  chemists,  physi- 
