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lively  discussion  was  caused  by  this  announcement.  The  subject  of  pharma- 
copceial  revision  received  much  attention,  and  efforts  will  be  made  to  present 
the  views  of  the  Missouri  pharmacists  to  the  Committee  on  Revision  recently 
appointed  at  Washington.  Pertaining  to  the  same  subject  is  the  metric  system 
of  weights  and  measures,  which  was  discoursed  by  Professors  Curtman,  Whelp- 
ley  and  Good,  many  members  participating  approvingly  in  the  discussion, 
which  followed  these  addresses. 
An  interesting  affair  was  the  exhibition  of  about  200  preparations  made  in 
accordance  with  the  National  Formulary  by  students  of  the  St.  Louis  College  of 
Pharmacy  under  the  supervision  of  Prof.  Hemm.  For  several  years  past,  Mr. 
R.  J.  Brown  and  others  have  interested  themselves  in  Inter-State  Pharmaceuti- 
cal Meetings,  and  the  time  seems  to  be  near  when  such  a  meeting  will  be  held 
as  a  "  Conference  of  the  Western  Inter-State  Associated  Pharmacists,"  the 
initial  meeting  to  be  constituted  of  ten  delegates  each  from  the  states  of 
Arkansas,  Illinois,  Indiana,  Iowa,  Kansas,  Missouri  and  Nebraska. 
The  executive  officers  for  the  current  year  are  :  W.  B.  Bard,  Sedalia,  Presi- 
dent ;  G.  H.  C.  Klie,  St.  Louis,  Secretary,  and  G.  J.  Meyer,  Treasurer.  The 
Association  will  meet  again  at  Bxcelsior  Springs,  on  the  second  Tuesday  of 
June,  1891  ;  M.  Cravens  is  local  Secretary. 
The  Nebraska  State  Pharmaceutical  Association  convened  at  its  ninth 
annual  meeting  in  Washington  Hall,  Omaha,  May  13,  President  Goodman 
in  the  chair.  The  Association  was  welcomed  to  the  city  by  Mayor  Cushing. 
The  President's  address  referred  to  the  desirability  of  having  more  papers  read 
at  the  annual  meetings  ;  to  the  inroads  made  by  patent  medicines  ;  to  shorter 
business  hours  and  closing  on  Sundays  ;  to  the  selling  of  liquors  by  apothe- 
caries, etc.  Reports  were  read  from  the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy,  from  the 
Secretary,  the  Treasurer  and  the  various  committees  and  delegations  to  other 
societies.  In  view  of  the  fact  that  prohibitory  laws  had  resulted  in  transferring 
the  traffic  in  liquors  to  the  drug  stores,  thus  degrading  the  aims  of  pharmacy, 
the  association  declared  itself  as  being  not  in  sympathy  with  the  proposed 
prohibition  amendment  to  the  Constitution  of  Nebraska.  The  recommenda- 
tion of  the  Committee  on  Legislation,  that  no  amendments  to  the  pharmacy 
law  were  desirable  at  present,  and  that  the  inauguration  of  the  School  of 
Pharmacy  be  deferred  for  further  consideration,  met  with  the  approval  of  the 
meeting.  Mr.  C.  J.  Daubach,  Lincoln,  was  elected  President ;  J.  Forsyth, 
Omaha,  Treasurer,  and  Mrs.  Julia  M.  Crissey,  Omaha,  Secretary.  The  next 
annual  meeting  will  be  held  in  Beatrice,  May  26,  1891,  the  local  Secretary 
being  J.  D.  Rainey. 
The  Tennessee  State  Druggists'  Association  met  at  its  fifth  annual  meeting 
in  Nashville,  May  21.  The  proceedings  commenced  with  an  address  by  Pro- 
fessor Dudley,  of  Vanderbilt University,  the  annual  address  by  President  Dowdy, 
and  the  reports  of  officers  and  committees.  The  report  011  trade  interests 
was  followed  by  a  discussion  resulting  in  the  appointment  of  a  committee 
charged  with  the  drafting  of  an  address  in  relation  to  the  prescribing  by  physi- 
cians of  proprietary  and  secret  preparations.  After  the  adoption  of  this 
address,  the  committee  presented  the  same  to  the  American  Medical  Associa- 
tion, then  in  session  in  Nashville.  The  draft  of  a  pharmacy  law  for  the  state 
was  presented  by  a  committee,  and  after  discussion  referred  to  a  committee  to 
present  the  same  to  the  Legislature. 
