"'s^pteS^erf i9iT' }  -47iierican  Pharmaceutical  Association.  439 
York;  George  B.  Kauffman  of  Columbus,  Ohio;  C.  W.  Johnson 
of  Seattle,  Wash. ;  L.  E.  Sayre  of  Lawrence,  Kansas ;  E.  Berger 
of  Tampa,  Fla. ;  J.  C.  Wallace  of  New  Castle,  Pa, ;  F.  W.  Meissner, 
Jr.,  of  La  Porte,  Ind. 
The  sessions  of  the  several  sections  were,  in  many  instances 
at  least,  held  simultaneously  and  the  precedent  estabhshed  in 
previous  years  is  now  thoroughly  well  established  and  will  in 
time,  no  doubt,  lead  to  the  shortening  of  the  time  required  for 
the  annual  meeting  of  the  Association,  so  as  to  make  these  annual 
gatherings  of  greater  interest  and  value  to  the  really  busy  men  in 
our  calling. 
SECTION   ON   SCIENTIFIC  PAPERS. 
At  the  first  session  of  the  Section  on  Scientific  Papers  which 
was  held  on  Tuesday  afternoon  simultaneously  with  the  first 
session  of  the  Section  on  Commercial  Interests,  a  radical  modifica- 
tion in  the  By-laws  of  the  section  was  proposed  by  Chairman 
Clark  and  endorsed  by  the  members  present.  These  changes  were 
subsequently  endorsed  by  the  Council  of  the  Association  and  the 
necessary  changes  in  the  By-laws  of  the  Association  were  acceded 
to  at  the  concluding  general  session.  In  future  the  Section  on 
Scientific  Papers  will  be  in  position  to  conduct  its  business  independ- 
ently of  the  other  sections  and  will  therefore  have  sufficient  time 
to  discuss  all  of  the  communications  read  at  the  several  sessions. 
This  year  there  were  upwards  of  25  papers  to  be  presented 
at  two  sessions  of  the  section,  and  the  time,  as  usual,  was  wholly 
inadequate  to  present  and  discuss  more  than  half  of  this  number. 
Not  any  of  the  papers  were  printed  in  advance  of  the  meeting  and 
this  no  doubt  was  an  additional  reason  why  so  few  of  the  papers 
were  discussed  at  length.  As  an  additional  proof  of  this  statement 
it  is  but  necessary  to  point  out  that  the  Report  of  the  Committee 
on  Drug  Market,  August,  191 1,  which  was  available  in  printed 
form,  not  only  elicited  considerable  discussion,  but  also  gave  an 
opportunity  for  correcting  several  statements  objected  to  by  some 
of  the  members  present. 
Among  the  papers  presented  at  this  section  that  were  at  all 
discussed  are  the  following: 
The  Pharmacopccial  Standard  for  Desiccated  Thyroid  Glands, 
by  Hunt  and  Seidell. — The  authors  proposed  a  standard  iodine  con- 
tent, 0.2  per  cent.,  with  a  maximum  variation  of  0.03  per  cent, 
above  or  below  this  figure.    The  limit  for  moisture  is  placed  at 
