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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
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The  report  of  the  reference  committee  on  sections  endorsed  a 
resolution,  regarding  trade-marks  and  patents,  referred  by  the 
Section  on  Pharmacology  and  Therapeutics,  and  also  presented  a 
number  of  recommendations  submitted  in  the  address  of  the  chair- 
man of  the  delegation  from  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation. Not  the  least  important  of  the  several  recommendations 
is  the  one  relating  to  the  education  of  pharmacists,  embodying  the 
suggestion  that  "  Such  education  should  include  ethical  instruction 
as  well  as  instruction  in  the  branches  usually  included  in  the  courses 
given  by  colleges  of  pharmacy." 
The  report  of  the  reference  committee  on  medical  education, 
in  commenting  on  the  work  done  by  the  Council  on  Pharmacy 
and  Chemistry  with  reference  to  simplifying  the  requirements  of 
instruction  about  drugs  in  the  Pharmacopoeia,  says :  "  Everybody 
admits  that  valuable  time  is  wasted  in  giving  instruction  about 
useless  drugs  because  they  appear  in  the  Pharmacopoeia  and  be- 
cause state  licensing  boards  are  liable  to  ask  about  them." — /.  Am. 
M.  Assoc.,  191 1,  V.  57,  p.  132. 
Medical  Education. — A  recent  number  of  the  Journal  of  the 
American  Medical  Association  (Aug.  19,  191 1,  v.  57,  pp.  630  ff.) 
presents  a  description  of  the  medical  colleges  in  the  United  States 
and  Canada.  Accompanying  editorials  (pp.  654  and  658)  discuss 
the  progress  that  has  been  made,  under  the  auspices  of  the  Council 
on  Medical  Education  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  during 
the  past  seven  years.  During  this  period  the  number  of  medical 
colleges  has  been  reduced  from  166  in  1904  tO'  120  at  the  present 
time.  The  number  of  graduates  during  the  same  period  of  time 
has  been  reduced  from  5747  in  1904  to  4273  in  191 1.  The  amount 
of  money  given  for  medical  education  has  increased  from  a  few 
thousands  of  dollars  during  1904  to  several  millions  of  dollars  dur- 
ing the  last  year. 
British  Pharmaceutical  Conference. — ^The  forty-eighth  annual 
meeting  of  the  British  Conference  was  held  at  Portsmouth,  the 
opening  session  being  called  to  order  by  the  president,  Mr.  W.  F. 
Wells,  of  Dublin,  on  the  morning  of  July  25,  191 1. 
The  presidential  acfdress  dealt  mainly  with  the  pharmacy  laws 
of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland,  with  some  references  as  to  how  they 
differed  from  similar  laws  in  Germany  and  France.  The  proceed- 
ings of  the  Conference  were  this  year  divided  into  two  sections, 
