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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
(Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
(  Sciitomlier,  1911. 
national  interest.  The  work  of  the  association  is  to  consist  largely 
in  the  nomination  of  commissions  in  charge  of  studying  questions 
submitted  to  them. 
The  American  Chemical  Society,  at  the  recent  meeting  in 
Indianapolis,  signified  its  willingness  to  affiliate,  and  empowered  the 
president  of  the  society  to  enter  into  correspondence  with  the 
proper  officials  to  learn  the  details  regarding'  the  proposed 
organization. — /.  Ind.  and  Eng.  Chem.,  191 1,  v.  3,  p.  614. 
International  Pharmaceutical  Federation. — An  editorial  {Pharm. 
J.,  London,  191 1,  v.  87,  p.  32)  comments  on  the  organization  of 
the  International  Pharmaceutical  Federation,  recently  completed  at 
The  Hague,  and  points  out  that  in  addition  to  strictly  scientific 
subjects  it  is  proposed  to  exert  a  beneficial  influence  on  such  subjects 
as  the  international  arrangements  relating  to  patents  and  trade- 
marks and  commercial  treaties  affecting  matters  of  this  kind.  This 
organization  appears  to  have  attracted  considerable  attention  on  the 
continent  of  Europe,  despite  the  fact  that  in  English-speaking 
countries  the  objects  and  the  possibilities  of  cooperation  on  the  part 
of  pharmaceutical  organizations  have  received  little  or  no  con- 
sideration. 
American  Medical  Association. — The  Los  Angeles  meeting  of 
the  American  Medical  Association,  while  not  as  largely  attended 
as  some  immediately  preceding  it,  will  no  doubt  prove  to  have  been 
an  important  one  from  many  points  of  view.  Not  the  least  im- 
portant of  the  several  accomplishments  of  this  meeting  was  the 
election  of  the  nestor  of  American  medicine.  Dr.  Abraham  Jacobi, 
to  serve  as  president  of  the  Association.  An  editorial  (/.  Am.  M. 
Assoc.,  191 1,  V.  57,  p.  122),  commenting  on  his  election,  asserts 
that  "  few  if  any  men  in  the  American  medical  world  to-day  can 
look  back  on  as  active  a  life  as  that  of  Jacobi.  As  a  teacher, 
<practitioner,  and  worker  in  medical  organizations  he  has  been  a 
leader  for  half  a  century." 
An  editorial  {Pacific  Pharmacist,  July,  1910,  v.  5,  p.  83),  in 
commenting  on  the  meeting  of  the  American  Medical  Association, 
asserts  that  the  matter  of  dispensing  physicians,  counter-prescribing 
druggists,  prescription  percentage  evil,  selling  and  prescribing 
patent  and  fake  remedies,  and  the  U.  S.  P.  and  N.  F.  propaganda 
were  warmly  discussed.  Physicians  very  frankly  admitted  that 
they  knew  little  or  nothing  about  drugs  and  urged  better  courses 
of  instruction  in  materia  medica  for  the  medical  colleges. 
