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Chemical  Constitution . 
{Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
November,  1915. 
The  names  of  those  entitled  to  receive  the  degree  of  Pharmaceuti- 
cal Chemist  (P.C.)  were  then  presented,  balloted  for,  and  approved. 
The  committee  also  announced  the  names  of  those  to  whom  prizes 
were  to  be  awarded,  as  also  those  entitled  to  honorable  mention. 
The  Chairman  announced  the  names  of  those  members  of  the 
Board  and  others  who  would  present  the  prizes  on  the  evening 
of  the  Commencement.  The  Chairman  announced  that  Professor 
Sadtler  requested  permission  to  withdraw  from  the  Committee  on 
Announcement,  which  was  granted.  The  Chair  then  appointed  Mr. 
George  B.  Evans  to  fill  the  vacancy. 
July  20th,  1015. — Special  meeting.  Mr.  French,  chairman  of  the 
Committee  on  Finance,  made  a  report  for  the  committee  and  then 
moved  that  E.  Fullerton  Cooke  be  elected  to  an  Associate  Professor- 
ship and  his  title  be  Associate  Professor  of  Pharmacy.  It  was 
adopted.  The  question  of  Professor  Cooke  being  instructor  in  com- 
mercial training,  and  how  his  name  should  appear  in  the  Bulletin,  was 
discussed,  and  it  was  decided  that  his  name  should  appear  as  Asso- 
ciate Professor  in  Pharmacy,  and  also  as  Instructor  in  Commercial 
Training. 
CHEMICAL  CONSTITUTION  AND  PHYSIOLOGICAL 
ACTION. 
There  has  been  published  recently  by  D.  Van  Nostrand  Com- 
pany, New  York,  a  translation  of  Prof.  Leopold  Spiegel's  work 
on  the  "  Chemical  Constitution  and  Physiological  Action."  The 
action  of  chemical  agents  upon  animal  organism,  and  particularly 
upon  man,  is  of  the  greatest  importance  and  interest.  Far  too 
little  has  been  done  toward  systematizing  our  knowledge  of  this 
subject,  and  there  is  no  doubt  that  this  field  ofTers  an  enormous  op- 
portunity for  useful  research.  The  purpose  and  scope  of  the  pres- 
ent treatise  have  seemed  of  sufficient  importance  to  justify  its  trans- 
lation. The  translators,  Dr.  Leudeking  and  A.  C.  Boylston,  have 
brought  the  work  up  to  date.  The  relation  between  chemical  con- 
stitution and  physiological  action  is  of  such  fundamental  and  far- 
reaching  significance  that  this  work  should  be  of  very  great  in- 
terest not  only  to  physiological  chemists  and  physicians  but  to  manu- 
facturing pharmacists.  For  real,  rational  scientific  medicine  must 
be  founded  upon  a  knowledge  of  this  subject,  and  in  order  that  a 
steady  progress  shall  be  made,  a  systematic  knowledge  must  replace 
haphazard  and  empirical  information. 
