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Mr.  Alexander  Turner  gave  some  interesting  data  concerning  prescriptions 
compounded  at  his  store  ;  one  thousand  were  looked  over  containing  2764 
specifications,  of  these  2388  were  for  U.  S.  P.  articles,  264  non-officinal  drugs 
neither  patented  nor  proprietary  in  character,  and  only  112  patented  or  pro- 
prietary drugs,  making  only  about  four  per  cent,  of  the  last  class. 
Mr.  Mclntyre  recently  found  about  nine  per  cent,  of  this  class  prescribed  in 
one  thousand  prescriptions.  This  justifies  the  expression  made  after  the  state- 
ment that  it  speaks  well  for  the  Philadelphia  physicians. 
Mr.  Thompson  showed  the  meeting  some  specimens  of  cucumber  juice,  which 
had  been  preserved  by  addition  of  salicylic  and  boric  acids,  also  by  an  addition 
of  alcohol. 
Before  adjourning  for  the  summer  the  members  all  agreed  to  assist  the  Com- 
mittee in  charge,  to  their  utmost,  and  make  the  next  series  even  more 
successful  than  the  present  one. 
Frank  X.  Moerk. 
AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
For  the  second  time  since  its  organization  in  1852,  the  American  Pharmaceu- 
tical Association  has  held  its  meeting  far  in  the  South.  In  addition  thereto 
three  meetings  have  been  held  in  the  northern  section  of  the  Southern  States, 
namely,  two  in  Virginia,  and  one  in  Kentucky.  The  first  meeting  in  the  heart 
of  the  Southern  States  was  held  in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  in  1878,  and  though  called  in 
September,  had  to  be  postponed  until  late  in  November,  on  account  of  the 
yellow  fever  having  become  epidemic  in  some  portions  of  the  South,  mainly  in 
the  Mississippi  Valley  ;  it  was  the  only  meeting  held  that  late  in  the  year.  On 
the  other  hand,  the  New  Orleans  meeting  has  taken  place  two  months  earlier 
than  the  San  Francisco  meeting,  and  thus  the  two  southernmost  meetings 
mark  the  earliest  and  latest  dates  at  which  the  Association  has  convened  at  its 
annual  gatherings,  the  large  majority  of  which  were  in  the  month  of 
September. 
The  large  drill  hall  of  the  Washington  Artillery,  of  New  Orleans,  located  on 
St.  Charles  Street,  was  festively  decorated  with  flags  and  bunting  for  the  39th 
annual  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  which  was  called 
to  order  by  President  A.  B.  Taylor,  on  Monday  afternoon,  April  27.  After 
prayer  had  been  offered  by  Rev.  Dr.  W.  A.  Snively,  Mayor  Jos.  A.  Shakspeare 
spoke  words  of  welcome  to  the  visitors,  to  which  Vice-President  Stevens  replied. 
President  Taylor  then  delivered  the  anniversary  address,  'in  which  he  referred 
to  the  increase  in  the  Schools  of  Pharmacy,  and  to  the  fact  that  in  forty  of  the 
States  of  the  Union  State  Pharmaceutical  Associations  had  been  organized  since 
the  year  1867.  He  briefly  reviewed  the  decennial  revisions  of  the  U.  S.  Pharma- 
copoeia since  1840,  when  for  the  first  time  pharmacists  participated,  officially,  in 
this  labor,  until  in  recent  years  a  much  more  active  interest  had  been  taken  in 
the  work  of  perfecting  the  national  pharmacopoeia  by  pharmacists  than  by  physi- 
cians. Referring  to  the  complementary  branches  of  the  healing  art,  note  was 
made  of  the  growing  sentiment  of  harmony  between  the  professions  of  medicine 
and  pharmacy,  as  an  evidence  of  which  was  cited  the  formation  of  a  Section  of 
Materia  Medica  and  Pharmacy  by  the  American  Medical  Association,  at  which 
