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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Fharm. 
\  December,  1911. 
The  resolutions  adopted  cover  a  variety  of  subjects  but  are  con- 
servative and  will  go  far  to  reinforce  the  Association  in  the  place 
that  it  has  established  for  itself.  H.  C.  Shuptrine,  of  Savannah, 
Ga.,  was  elected  President,  and  Thomas  H.  Potts  re-elected  Sec- 
retary. 
N.  W.  D.  A. — The  meeting  of  the  National  Wholesale  Drug- 
gists' Association  held  in  New  York,  October  lo  to  13,  191 1,  ap- 
pears to  have  been  an  unusually  successful  one  both  as  to  attend- 
ance and  results.  The  address  of  President  SchiefTelin  contained 
a  powerful  arraignment  of  the  illegitimate  sale  of  habit  forming 
drugs  and  a  plea  for  a  national  law  to  regulate  interstate  traffic 
in  habit  forming  drugs. 
Other  features  of  the  proceedings  that  are  of  interest  to  phar- 
macists at  large  are  the  reports  of  the  several  standing  committees 
and  the  addresses  by  Dr.  True  and  Prof.  Remington.  Dr.  True 
reviewed  the  difficulties  that  have  been  met  with  in  drug  plant 
cultivation  particularly  of  indigenous  drugs,  and  called  attention 
to  some  of  the  drugs  that  are  being  successfully  cultivated  in  a 
larger  way. 
Prof.  Remington  presented  an  interesting  report  on  the  prog- 
ress of  the  revision  of  the  Pharmacopceia  of  the  United  States,  the 
probable  scope  of  the  U.  S.  P.  IX  and  the  interest  that  is  being 
evidenced  in  the  revision  generally. 
Hanbury  Gold  Medai,.. — The  adjudicators  of  the  Hanbury 
Fund  have  awarded  the  gold  medal  to  M.  Leger,  a  member  of  the 
Committee  of  Revision  of  the  French  Pharmacopoeia  whose  work 
in  connection  with  the  active  constituents  of  drugs  has  made  him 
well  known  to  chemists  all  over  the  world.  — Pharm.  J.  Lond., 
191 1,  v.  87,  p.  470. 
Dr.  Wiley. — An  editorial  (/.  Am.  M.  Ass.,  191 1,  v.  57,  p.  905) 
in  commenting  on  the  charges  against  Dr.  Wiley  says :  "When 
the  charge  against  Dr.  Wiley  was  first  made  public  even  his  friends 
supposed  that  it  could  be  at  least  sustained  on  a  technicality.  The 
investigation  has  brought  out  the  fact  that  Dr.  Wiley  was  not  even 
guilty  of  the  trivial  technical  violation  that  was  claimed.  The  edi- 
torial also  calls  attention  to  some  of  the  details  brought  out  in  the 
course  of  the  investigation  which  are  published  in  this  and  other 
issues  of  the  Journal  of  the  A.  M.  A." 
Another  editorial  (Ibid.,  p.  1061)  in  calling  attention  to  the 
decision  reached  by  President  Taft  in  the  "Wiley  case,"  says :  "Dr. 
