October  wis™'}  San  Francisco  Meeting  of  the  A.  P.  A.  485 
felt  that  slow  and  careful  action  was  desirable,  and  did  not  attempt 
to  suggest  any  detailed  policy,  -but  only  to  offer  a  basis  on  which 
future  actions  may  be  built. 
The  Committee  on  the  Function  of  the  House  of  Delegates 
recommended  that  no  radical  change  be  made  at  present.  The 
report  discussed  the  present  functions  of  this  body,  and  suggested 
changes  that  might  be  made  in  the  future.  Prof.  H.  P.  Hynson, 
who  has  labored  most  zealously  during  the  year  on  reform  in  the 
function  and  representation  in  the  House  of  Delegates,  was  honored 
by  election  to  the  chairmanship  of  the  House  of  Delegates  for  the 
coming  year. 
A  new  committee  of  fifteen  members  on  Recipe  Book  was  selected 
in  place  of  the  seven  former  members.  The  new  committee  will 
serve  in  sections  of  three  for  five  years  each,  which  will  provide  for 
a  definite  working  committee  and  will  doubtless  result  in  the  securing 
of  satisfactory  work. 
A  committee  of  five  to  submit  to  the  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation a  desire  and  plan  for  cooperation  in  mutual  interests  is  to 
to  be  appointed  by  the  incoming  president;  also  a  committee  of  five  is 
to  be  appointed  to  investigate  and  report  on  fair  and  reasonable 
prices  for  prescriptions. 
The  association  went  on  record  as  opposing  the  ruling  of  the 
Internal  Revenue  Commissioner  that  prescriptions  containing  the 
minimum  quantities  of  narcotics  under  the  Harrison  law  may  not 
be  refilled;  also  as  opposing  the  continuation  of  the  stamp  tax  on 
toilet  preparations. 
In  the  Scientific  Section  twenty-eight  papers  were  presented,  but 
only  about  one-third  of  the  authors  were  present.  Chairman  Eber- 
hardt's  address  was  an  exceedingly  able  one  and  dealt  with  the 
chemical  manufacturing  situation  in  America.  As  a  result^  a  com- 
mittee was  appointed  to  consider  our  patent  laws,  and  a  resolution 
was  passed  calling  upon  Congress  to  encourage  chemical  industry 
by  means  of  a  protective  tariff. 
Interesting  papers  were  presented  by  Wilbur  L.  Scoville,  in  which 
a  comparison  was  made  between  tinctures  made  direct  from  drugs 
and  those  made  by  diluting  the  fluidextracts ;  by  J.  U.  Lloyd,  on  a 
history  of  the  discovery  of  the  alkaloidal  affinities  of  hydrous 
aluminum  silicate,  and  by  H.  V.  Arny,  giving  a  demonstration  of  a 
method  for  standardizing  colors  by  means  of  mixtures  of  semi- 
normal  inorganic  solutions. 
