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Other  Papers. 
Other  papers  were  received  as  follows :  "  Uses  of  Carbon  Tetra- 
chloride;" *' Tests  for  Purity  of  Carbon  Tetrachloride;"  and  "  Tests 
for  the  Detection  of  Carbon  Tetrachloride,"  by  Otto  Raubenheimer  ; 
"  Iron  Peptonate,"  by  Leonard  A.  Johnson  ;  "  Preliminary  Report 
on  Assay  of  Sanguinaria,"  by  Walter  H.  Blome  ;  "  Chemical  and 
Physical  Constants  of  Oil  of  Datura  Stramonium,"  by  Julian  W. 
Baird  and  Flora  E.  Sleeper ;"  "  The  Early  History  and  Modern 
Commercial  Development  of  Mint,  "  by  Albert  M.  Todd  ;  "  The 
Structure  of  the  Stem,  Root  and  Leaves  of  Eschscholtzia  Califor- 
nia," by  R.  H.  Denniston;  "  The  Chemistry  of  Chelidonine,"  by 
J.  O.  Schlotterbeck  and  H.  C.  Watkins  ;  "  Microchemical  Differ- 
entiation  of  Atropine  and  Hyoscyamine,"  by  J.  O.  Schlotterbeck ; 
"  Contribution  to  the  Chemistry  of  Sanguinarine  and  Chelerythrine," 
by  R.  Fischer  and  A.  E.  Kundert ;  "  On  Glycerophosphoric  Acid 
and  Glycerophosphates,"  by  F.  Rabak  and  Ed.  Kremers ;  "  Sesqui- 
terpenes," by  O.  Schreiner ;  "  On  the  Alkaloids  of  Corydalis  cana- 
densis and  C.  bicocolla,"  by  R.  Fischer  and  C.  Lehman. 
Section  on  Education  and  Legislation. 
The  section  on  education  and  legislation  convened  on  Friday 
morning  with  J.  W.  T.  Knox,  chairman,  in  the  chair.  The  address 
of  the  chairman  was  devoted  to  the  consideration  of  the  more  im- 
portant problems  of  education  and  legislation.  He  stated  among 
other  things  that  there  were  some  80  schools  and  colleges  of  phar- 
macy in  this  country  at  the  present  time  and  that  there  had  been  an 
increase  of  about  35  per  cent,  in  the  past  three  years.  He  said 
pharmacy,  however,  suffers  not  so  much  from  the  number  of  its 
students  as  from  their  deficiency  in  preliminary  education,  and  this 
is  more  or  less  directly  traceable  to  the  surplus  of  colleges  with 
which  we  are  afflicted.  The  attempt  is  being  made,  in  all  good 
faith,  to  adopt  a  uniform  entrance  requirement  so  that  the  young 
man  who  presents  himself  for  admission  to  a  pharmacy  school  must 
show  a  high-school  diploma  or  its  equivalent  before  he  can  become  a 
student. 
The  report  of  the  secretary,  Harry  B.  Mason,  showed  that  there 
are  now  about  92,459  registered  pharmacists  in  the  United  States, 
and  8,799  assistant  pharmacists.  During  the  year  4,262  persons 
were  granted  certificates  of  registration  as  pharmacists ;  of  these 
