Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Sept.,  1891. 
Editorial. 
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tion  was  decided  by  two-thirds  of  the  members  present  at  a  meeting,  or  in  the 
interim  by  the  unanimous  action  of  the  committee.  In  1865,  the  membership 
of  the  Association  having  extended  over  most  of  the  States,  an  endorsement  of 
the  applicant  by  two  members  was  required,  and  election  in  the  recess  between 
the  annual  meetings  was  abolished.  Since  1880  the  applications  had  to  be 
examined  by  the  Council  before  being  reported  to  the  Association  ;  and  since 
1887  suitable  candidates  for  membership  need  not  formally  make  application, 
but  may  be  proposed  by  two  members  in  good  standing. 
No  change  has  been  made  in  the  admission  of  delegates  if  present  at  the 
meeting ;  they  may  become  members  by  signing  the  constitution  and  by-laws, 
and,  therefore,  are  virtually  elected  members  of  the  national  association  by  the 
local  associations  appointing  them  ;  the  only  restriction  being  with  regard  to 
such  who  may  have  been  expelled  or  dropped  from  the  roll  for  non-payment  of 
dues.  At  the  organization  of  the  Association  in  1852  only  six  pharmaceutical 
colleges  and  associations  were  known  and  had  appointed  delegates,  namely, 
Boston,  New  York,  Philadelphia,  Baltimore,  Richmond,  Va.,  and  Cincinnati; 
at  the  present  time  there  are  but  very  few  States  without  a  pharmaceutical 
association,  and  in  view  of  the  fact  that  the  delegates  from  each  may  become 
members  of  the  national  body  without  formal  election  by  the  latter,  it  would 
seem  but  logical  that  any  member  in  good,  standing  in  one  of  the  former  should 
be  entitled  to  join  the  national  association  under  similar  conditions/  without 
being  appointed  a  delegate.  Others  might  still  be  elected  upon  application  or 
by  proposition  and  invitation. 
The  State  Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board  of  Pennsylvania  held  an 
examination  in  the  High  School  at  Williamsport  on  Tuesday,  July  14,  1891. 
Fifty-one  candidates  appeared  for  examination,  thirty-three  applying  for  Regis- 
tered Pharmacist's  certificates,  and  eighteen  for  Qualified  Assistant's  certifi- 
cates.   Eleven  of  the  former  and  ten  of  the  latter  class  were  successful. 
Two  new  members  of  the  board  were  present  at  this  examination,  Charles  T. 
George,  of  Harrisburg,  in  place  of  H.  B.  Cochran,  resigned,  and  L,ouis  Eman- 
uel, of  Pittsburg,  in  place  of  F.  H.  Eggers,  whose  term  had  expired. 
A  Convention  of  Retail  Druggists'  Associations  has  been  called  by  the  St. 
Louis  Apothecaries'  Association,  to  convene  at  the  Southern  Hotel,  St.  Louis, 
September  3,  at  10  o'clock,  A.  M..  The  call  was  issued  under  date  of  August 
17th  and  25th,  for  the  purpose  of  considering  trade  subjects,  and  to  confer  on 
ways  and  means  to  cut  the  cutter  on  patent  and  proprietary  articles,  likewise  to 
adopt  measures  which  will  take  the  traffic  in  these  goods  out  of  the  trade  bazaars 
and  department  stores. 
The  meetings  of  the  Congress  of 'American  Physicians  and  Surgeons  will  be 
held  in  Washington  from  3  to  6  P.  M.,  September  22d,  23d,  24th  and  25th, 
1891.    William  Pepper  is  chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee. 
The  American  Public  Health  Association  will  hold  its  nineteenth  annual 
meeting  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.  and  Kan.,  October  20  to  23  next.  Among  the 
topics  for  consideration  are  :  (1)  Sanitary  construction  in  house  architecture  ' 
(2)  railroad  sanitation  ;  (3)  meat  supplies  ;  (4)  milk  supplies  of  cities  ;  (5) 
arsenical  papers  and  fabrics,  and  (6)  isolation  hospitals  for  infectious  diseases 
in  cities.  Dr.  Irving  A.  Watson,  Concord,  N.  H.,  is  Secretary  of  this  Asso- 
ciation. 
