47  8  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {Asepfe0mber,hS'' 
should  appear  in  advertisements  equally  prominent  with  its  brand-name,  so  that  the  latter 
may  be  used  by  the  public  for  the  purpose  of  specifying  a  particular  brand  when  desired,  and 
the  former  employed  to  designate  the  article  itself  as  such,  irrespective  of  who  is  the  maker. 
In  describing  trees  as  to  natural  order,  genera  and  species,  so  is  it  in  describing  medicines  : 
every  kind  of  tincture,  fluid  extract  and  pill  must  have  a  specific  name  by  which  it  may  be 
described,  and  if  the  introducer  does  not  supply  it  he  has  no  reasonable  cause  of  complaint  if 
the  name  claimed  by  him  as  a  trade-mark  ceases  to  perform  its  function  as  a  brand-mark  and 
falls  into  the  public  domain  as  a  descriptive  word  or  appellative.  The  trade-mark  law  should 
be  so  revised  that  its  ambiguous  wording  will  not  protect  those  who  desire  to  create  perpetual 
monopolies  of  secret  medicines  by  claiming  that  their  commonly  accepted  names  are  trade- 
marks. 
Your  committee  has  been  informed  that  the  preamble  and  resolutions  on  the  subject  of 
patents  and  trade-marks,  which  was  presented  by  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association 
to  the  American  Medical  Association,  and  which  was  referred  back  to  the  American  Pharma- 
ceutical Association  for  final  action  and  returned  after  debate  at  the  last  annual  meeting  of 
the  latter  Association,  was  referred  by  the  American  Medical  Association  to  its  Section  on 
Materia  Medica,  Pharmacy  and  Therapeutics.  Said  Section  appointed  a  committee  consisting 
of  Prof.  Wai  ren  B.  Hill,  of  Milwaukee,  and  Dr.  Robt.  G.  Kecles,  of  New  York,  for  further  con- 
sideration of  the  document  referred  to.  Your  committee  is  now  informed  that  these  gentle- 
men will  doubtless  suggest  the  formation  of  a  committee  on  the  nomenclature  of  Materia 
Medica  titles,  and  your  committee,  therefore,  suggests  that  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  should  also  appoint  a  committee  on  nomenclature  to  co-operate  in  this  important 
work. 
SCIENTIFIC  SECTION. 
The  report  of  the  Special  Committee  on  the  Status  of  the  Pharmacists  in  the 
Army,  Navy  and  Marine  Hospital  Service  of  the  United  States  was  given  in 
abstract  by  the  chairman,  Geo.  F.  Payne. 
The  Scientific  Section  met  for  its  first  session  on  Thursday  morning,  at  10  a.m. 
The  first  thing  being  the  Chairman's  address.  This  was  a  scholarly  effort  on 
the  part  of  Dr.  Ed.  Kremers,  and  devoted  to  the  consideration  of  the  constitu- 
ents of  the  many  volatile  oils.  After  the  reading  it  was  referred  to  a  committee 
consisting  of  Messrs.  Rusby,  Sayre  and  Stevens.  Reports  of  the  various  Com- 
mittees were  submitted.  The  Committee  of  the  Association  of  the  U.S. P., 
through  its  Chairman,  Mr.  Eliel,  submitted  the  following  :  that  Linimentum 
Saponis  be  made  from  the  dried  soap  and  not  the  powder  ;  the  per  cent,  of 
chlorine  in  chlorinated  lime  is  too  high,  and  should  not  be  more  than  30  per 
cent.;  that  no  crude  carbolic  acid  of  the  strength  required,  is  upon  the  market ; 
a  large  number  of  vegetable  drugs  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  are  described  as  being 
inodorous,  when  they  really  do  possess  odor  ;  an  additional  identity  test  should 
be  added  to  potassium  sulphate  ;  the  Research  Committee  examine  into  the 
relative  value  of  the  various  constituents  of  digitalis  ;  the  aloin  standard  should 
be  made  for  aloes  ;  to  change  the  name  of  Resina  Podophylli  to  Podophyllin  ; 
Tr.  Ferri  Chlor.  should  be  kept  at  least  twelve  months  after  making  before 
being  used  ;  the  establishment  of  a  class  of  50  per  cent,  tinctures  and  a  Re- 
search Laboratory.  This  Report  was  referred  to  a  Committee  consisting  of 
Messrs.  Remington,  Coblentz  and  Kraemer.  Considerable  discussion  followed 
by  the  various  members. 
The  Reporter  on  Progress  of  Pharmacy  read  the  preliminary  part  of  his 
Report.    The  first  paper  read  was  on 
vSTANDARDS  FOR  BLACK   \ND  WHITE  MUSTARD. 
By  J.  U.  Lloyd. 
This  is  reprinted  in  this  Journal  on  p.  433.  Accompanying  this  paper  was 
a  letter  containing  the  recommendations  of  C.  T.  P.  Fennel  to  Prof.  Prescott, 
