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applicants  for  registration  in  hospital  dispensary  work,  and  was 
requested  to  classify  hospital  dispensaries  under  the  State  Pharmacy 
Law.  The  preliminary  report  of  the  Voluntary  Conference  for  the 
drafting  of  modern  laws  on  pharmacy,  being  conducted  by  the  Sec- 
tion on  Education  and  Legislation  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  was  endorsed  with  one  exception,  so  far  as  the  principles 
involved  were  concerned.  Unqualified  endorsement  of  the  Stevens 
bill  was  also  given. 
According  to  the  Committee  on  Drug  Market,  the  standard  of 
the  drugs  coming  into  the  American  market  from  abroad  this  year 
is  equal  to  that  of  last  year.  The  Committee  on  Trade  Interests 
announced  that  something-for-nothing  schemes  had  been  one  of  the 
stumbling-blocks  in  the  path  to  success  of  the  retail  drug  trade  in 
Pennsylvania  during  the  past  year,  and  that  such  schemes  were 
largely  responsible  for  the  high  cost  of  living. 
Professor  Joseph  P.  Remington  announced  that  the  Ninth  Re- 
vision of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  was  one-third  in  print. 
Statistics  showed-  that  the  legitimate  use  of  narcotic  drugs  by 
physicians  in  their  practice  was  about  the  same  since  the  Harrison 
law  became  effective,  but  that  the  illegitimate  use  and  their  use  in 
patent  medicines  had  largely  fallen  off. 
The  report  of  Secretary  D.  J.  Reese  showed  that  220  new  mem- 
bers had  been  elected  during  the  year  and  that  the  association  mem- 
bership is  now  1200.  The  excellent  work  of  the  Travelling  Men's 
Auxiliary,  which  secured  191  of  these  members,  was  acknowledged. 
Departing  from  its  rule  of  twenty  years'  standing,  of  holding 
the  annual  meetings  at  a  summer  resort,  the  convention  decided  to 
accept  the  invitation  of  the  Reading  Board  of  Trade  and  go  to  that 
city,  June  20,  21,  and  22,  191 6. 
Officers  were  elected  as  follows :  President,  Theodore  Campbell, 
Philadelphia;  first  vice-president,  Adolph  Schmidt,  McKeesport; 
second  vice-president,  Adam  B.  Heckerman,  Port  Royal ;  secretary, 
David  J.  Reese,  Philadelphia;  assistant  secretary,  Lewis  H.  Davis, 
Philadelphia ;  treasurer,  F.  H.  Gleim,  Lebanon ;  member  of  the 
Executive  Committee  for  three  years,  Crull  Keller,  Harrisburg; 
local  secretary,  M.  W.  Bamford,  Reading. 
The  Travelling  Men's  Auxiliary,  whose  members  provided  an 
excellent  entertainment  program,  selected  the  following  officers : 
President,  A.  J.  Staudt;  vice-president,  J.  Q.  Reinhart;  secretary, 
A.  L.  Wolcott ;  treasurer,  J.  D.  McFerren,  all  of  Philadelphia. 
