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PEPSIN  TESTING. 
By  George  H.  Berdrick  and  L.  E.  Sayre. 
This  paper,  in  the  absence  of  the  authors,  was  read  by  title  and  referred  to 
the  Committee  on  Publication. 
SECTION  ON  EDUCATION  AND  LEGISLATION. 
This  section  met  on  Friday  morning  with  the  Chairman,  A.  B.  Lyons,  in  the 
chair.  The  first  order  of  business  was  the  reading  of  the  annual  address  of  the 
Chairman,  which  dealt  with  a  number  of  important  questions.  In  it  it  was  pro- 
posed that  (1)  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  in  conjunction  with 
the  respective  State  pharmaceutical  and  medical  societies,  be  authorized  to  select 
the  names  of  those  who  are  desirable  to  serve  as  members  of  the  State  Board 
of  Pharmacy  of  the  respective  States.  (2)  The  requirement  of  the  proper  lab- 
elling of  crude  drugs  for  shipment  should  be  made  a  matter  of  legislation. 
(3)  The  Research  Committee  consider  methods  of  pharmacological  assay 
in  connection  with  their  other  work.  (4)  It  is  desirable  for  the  Asso- 
ciation to  secure  an  endowment  for  the  establishment  of  a  research  labora- 
tory and  an  organ  of  publication  independent  of  advertising  matter.  (5)  The 
present  method  of  nomenclature  followed  for  newer  medicinal  mixtures  be 
deplored.  The  address  of  the  Chairman  was  referred  to  a  committee  consisting 
of  Messrs.  Eccles,  Stevens  and  Reed.  The  Secretary  then  read  his  report,  which 
was  referred  to  the  Council  for  publication.  The  report  was  a  summary 
of  all  pharmaceutical  legislation  in  the  United  States,  and  statistics  relating  to 
pharmacy  in  the  United  States. 
The  Secretary  then  read  a  report  upon  pharmaceutical  statistics.  Thos.  F. 
Main  spoke  on  "The  Poison  Bottle  Bill,"  as  introduced  into  the  New  York 
Legislature,  the  efforts  made  to  pass  it  and  what  it  would  have  cost  the  pharma- 
cists if  it  had  passed. 
Two  resolutions  were  offered  independently  by  Messrs.  Oldberg  and  Sheppard 
to  the  effect  that  it  be  required  of  candidates  for  examination  by  boards 
of  pharmacy  that  they  have  received  a  college  education.  The  resolution 
as  proposed  by  Mr.  Sheppard  was  finally  accepted,  viz.:  11  Resolved  y  that 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  represented  by  the  Section  on  Edu- 
cation and  Legislation  hereby  expresses  its  approval  of  the  proposition  that 
none  but  graduates  of  recognized  colleges  of  pharmacy  be  received  by  boards 
of  pharmacy  for  examination."  Those  participating  in  the  discussion  were 
Messrs.  Remington,  Beal,  Hallberg,  Bartley,  Mayo  and  Prescott. 
It  was  proposed  that  J.  H.  Beal,  of  Scio,  Ohio,  be  requested  to  report  next  year 
on  a  "  model  pharmacy  law."  A  committee  of  three,  consisting  of  Messrs.  Eliel, 
Helfman  and  Ebert,  was  appointed  to  investigate  the  subject  as  to  whether 
crude  drugs  are  shipped  without  labels. 
F.  E.  Stewart,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  National  Legislation,  presented 
a  lengthy  report,  which  was  considered  to  be  judiciously  and  ably  prepared.  In 
it  it  was  considered  that :  "  The  rapid  growth  of  commercialism  during  the  past 
twenty  years  is  a  menace  to  the  educational  and  professional  interests  of  phar- 
macy and  to  the  Pharmacopoeia.  The  vocation  must  be  practised  on  a  basis  of 
reciprocity,  whereby  all  are  forced  to  comply  with  professional  and  scientific 
requirements  ;  for  justice  demands  that  every  pharmacist  should  have  an  equal 
chance  with  his  fellows  to  make  a  living,  and  he  who  gives  away  the  knowledge 
