438  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {l4eptJeTh'er.hi™' 
3,171,  or  74  per  cent.,  passed  the  examination;  in  522  cases  (or  12 
per  cent.),  graduation  in  pharmacy  was  accepted  in  lieu  of  the  exam- 
ination ;  in  99  cases  (or  2.3  per  cent.)  graduation  in  medicine  was 
similarly  accepted ;  and  interchange  of  Board  certificates  accounts 
for  nearly  all  of  the  remaining  470  cases.  Concerning  assistant 
pharmacists,  1,143  were  registered  by  examination  and  70  without 
examination  during  the  year.  So  far  as  the  statistics  go,  they  indi- 
cate the  presence  of  but  722  women  among  nearly  one  hundred 
thousand  registered  pharmacists  in  the  country. 
F.  E.  Stewart,  who  was  appointed  as  a  committee  of  one  for  the 
purpose  of  transmitting  the  views  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  on  the  subject  of  patents  and  trademarks  to  the  Con- 
gress of  the  U.  S.  of  America,  presented  a  report  to  the  effect  that 
he  had  attended  the  meetings  of  the  Commission  appointed  by  Presi- 
dent McKinley  to  revise  the  U.  S.  patent  and  trademark  laws,  and  that 
the  Commission  ignored  the  wishes  of  this  Association  in  its  recom- 
mendations to  Congress.  The  wishes  of  the  Association  (as  ex- 
pressed in  Proc.  A.  Ph.  A.,  1897,  p.  90  ;  and  1899,  p.  344)  being  to 
the  effect  that  Congress  shall  so  revise  the  patent  law  as  to  ex- 
clude materia  medica  products  from  patent  protection,  and  so  revise 
the  trademark  law  that  the  currently  used  names  of  materia  medica 
products  shall  be  refused  registration. 
The  special  commmittee  on  "  The  Acquirement  of  Drug  Habits  " 
presented  a  report  through  the  chairman,  E.  G.  Eberle,  which  will 
be  printed  in  full  in  a  later  issue  of  this  Journal. 
J.  H.  Beal  presented  a  draft  of  a  law  to  provide  against  the  evils 
resulting  from  the  traffic  in  certain  narcotic  drugs  and  to  regulate 
the  sale  thereof.  The  sections  were  considered  seriatim  and  finally 
adopted. 
The  following  officers  were  elected:  Harry  B.  Mason,  chairman ; 
W.  L.  Cliffe,  secretary ;  Frederick  T.  Gordon,  D.  F.  Jones  and  E. 
J.  Kennedy,  associates. 
The  following  papers  were  presented  to  this  section  : 
A  Conference  of  Board  of  Pharmacy  Members. 
By  H.  M.  Whelpley. 
The  author  recommended  the  appointment  of  a  committee  to  call 
a  conference  of  the  various  Board  of  Pharmacy  members  present 
this  year  and  with  the  new  officers  of  this  section  arrange  for  a 
