Ase/tember?i9on3.'}    American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  421 
over,  advertising  matter  will  likewise  be  examined  by  the  Bureau's 
censor,  and  will,  if  it  conforms  to  the  established  requirements,  be 
given  the  official  'O.  K.'  mark. 
"  In  order  to  have  the  proper  legal  and  business  standing,  the  work 
should  be  done  by  a  corporation.  As  it  is  not  intended  that  profit 
shall  be  made  from  the  undertaking,  the  corporation  should  be  a 
membership  and  not  a  joint  stock  corporation.  It  is  proposed  to 
incorporate  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  New  York,  a  membership 
corporation  to  be  known  as  the  National  Bureau  of  Medicines  and 
Foods. 
"  The  membership  of  this  bureau  should  be  of  two  or  more  classes. 
All  members  of  the  American  Medical  Association  and  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association  should  be  scientific  members  of  the 
bureau.  The  organization  should  be  so  effected  as  to  fully  protect 
the  American  Medical  Association  and  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  their  agents  and  all  their  members  who  become  mem- 
bers of  the  proposed  bureau,  from  all  possibility  of  being  involved 
in  legal  or  other  complications  that  might  assail  the  proposed 
bureau.  Those  manufacturers  whose  goods  it  might  be  requested 
to  vouch  for  should  be  admitted  to  associate  membership,  but  should 
have  no  voice  in  the  control  of  the  bureau." 
The  legal  aspects  of  the  question  had  been  investigated  by  Dr. 
Philip  Mills  Jones,  of  San  Francisco,  who  said  that  the  corporation 
as  proposed  had  been  pronounced  by  one  of  the  leading  law  firms 
in  New  York  City  to  be  one  of  the  strongest  that  could  be  organized. 
After  some  discussion  Professor  Diehl  moved  the  adoption  of  the 
preamble  and  first  resolution  and  referring  the  remaining  resolutions 
to  council.    This  motion  was  unanimously  adopted. 
The  report  of  the  financial  accounts  in  the  care  of  the  General 
Secietary  was  read  by  Professor  Caspari  and  adopted. 
The  Committee  on  General  Prizes,  Dr.  Rusby,  chairman,  recom. 
mended  that  the  John  M.  Maisch  prize  be  awarded  to  Pierre  Felix 
Perredes  for  his  paper  on  "  The  Anatomy  of  the  Stem  of  Denis 
Uliginosa  Benth."  (an  Eastern  Fish  Poison);  the  Hager  prize  to  L. 
W.  Famulener  and  A.  B.  Lyons  for  their  paper  on  "  The  Relative 
Strengths  of  Various  Preparations  of  Digitalis  and  Kindred  Drugs 
as  Shown  by  Experiments  with  Frogs"  ;  first  general  prize  to  H.  M. 
Gordin  for  his  paper  on  "The  Quantitative  Estimation  of  Strychnine 
in  Mixtures  of  Strychnine  and  Brucine  "  ;  second  general  prize  to 
