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Progress  in  PJiarrnacy. 
(Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
(  Septinilicr,  lilll. 
Science  and  Practice,  the  new  arranoement  evidently  meeting  with 
the  approval  of  the  members  present. 
The  papers  read  in  the  Science  Section  are  quite  up  to  the  usual 
high  standard  of  the  communications  presented  to  this  organization, 
and  many  of  them  are  on  subjects  of  immediate  practical  interest. 
The  papers  are,  as  usual,  reproduced  entire  in  the  current  numbers 
of  the  British  pharmaceutical  journals.  At  the  closing  session  on 
Thursday,  Sir  Edward  Evans  was  elected  president  for  the  ensuing- 
year.  \  ■ 
American  Pharniaecntical  Association. — The  fifty-ninth  annual 
meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  held  in  the 
City  of  Boston,  August  14  to  19,  191 1,  will  no  doubt  prove  to  have 
been  epoch-making  for  American  pharmacy,  as  the  changes  in 
policies  that  are  involved  must  necessarily  bring  about  a  more  or 
less  complete  modification  of  the  relations  existing  between  the 
Association  and  the  several  branches  of  the  drug  trade  represented 
in  its  membership. 
Just  what  the  future  has  in  store  for  the  Association  would 
be  difficult  indeed  to  prophesy,  but,  with  its  long  and  honorable 
history  as  an  incentive,  the  present  and  future  officers  must  and 
will  continue  along  the  lines  of  progress  so  thoroughly  well  defined 
by  the  founders  and  the  Association. 
Whatever  differences  of  opinion  may  be  evidenced  regarding 
the  immediate  success  of  the  new  enterprises,  there  can  be  no 
difference  of  opinion  regarding  the  abilities  of  Boston  pharmacists 
as  entertainers.  Members  of  the  Association  from  far  and  near 
were  pleased  with  the  completeness  of  the  preparations  for  the 
meeting,  and  it  was  generally  agreed  that  few  cities  can  equal  and 
none  can  excel  the  City  of  Boston  as  a  meeting  place  for  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
Dr.  H.  W.  Wiley  and  the  Food  mid  Drugs  Act.— Few  happen- 
ings during  recent  months  have  attracted  more  widespread  atten- 
tion than  the  controversy  that  has  grown  out  of  a  technical  infraction 
of  the  law  by  Dr.  PI.  W.  Wiley  and  some  of  his  associates  in 
securing  the  services  of  Dr.  H.  H.  Rusby  as  an  expert  in  con- 
nection with  the  examination  of  drugs  imported  at  the  port  of 
New  York.  The  House  Committee  on  expenditures  in  the  Agri- 
cultural Department  has  conducted  an  exhaustive  investigation 
regarding  the  origin  and  nature  of  the  controversy,  and  the  members 
