^™ptJember,hia898?'}    American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  483 
Beal's)  address,  which  was  devoted  to  the  consideration  of  the  status  of  phar- 
macy laws  and  prospective  reforms  in  pharmacy  by  means  of  proposed  legisla- 
tive action.  Stress  was'laid  upon  the  necessity  of  a  college  education  as  a  pre- 
requisite for  registration,  and  the  fact  that  there  are  more  important  factors 
for  improving  the  present  evils  in  pharmacy  than  in  the  passage  of  laws.  He 
further  did  not  believe  in  making  two  classes  of  pharmacists,  but  that  the 
registered  pharmacist  and  qualified  assistant  alone  should  be  recognized  and 
that  some  time  should  elapse  before  the  latter  can  become  a  registered  phar- 
macist. The  address  was  accepted  and  referred  to  a  committee  for  action.  In 
the  discussion  which  followed,  it  was  apparent  that  the  mercantile  side  of  phar- 
macy was  drifting  into  the  hands  of  department  stores,  and  that  the  best  part 
of  pharmacy — requiring  the  educated  pharmacist — remains  with  him. 
The  Secretary's  (H.  B.  Webster's)  report  showed  the  progress  of  legislation 
in  the  different  States.  The  following  papers  were  presented  in  this  and  the 
remaining  two  sessions  of  the  Section  : 
THE  METRIC  SYSTEM  IN  MEDICAL  COLLEGES. 
By  H.  M.  Whelpley. 
The  author  sent  letters  containing  certain  queries  for  answers  to  154  medical 
colleges,  asking  among  other  things  the  extent  i,o  which  the  metric  system  was 
taught  in  the  medical  colleges.  The  answers  of  fifty-one  out  of  sixty-seven 
indicated  that  they  were  employing  the  metric  system  wherever  practicable. 
In  the  discussion  which  followed,  F.  G.  Ryan  called  attention  to  some  statistics 
which  he  had  received  from  the  Erie  Pharmaceutical  Association  on  the  em- 
ployment of  the  metric  system  by  physicians. 
COLLEGES  OF  PHARMACY  AND  THE  NEW  PHARMACOLOGY. 
By  R.  G.  Kccles. 
The  author,  in  a  previous  paper  read  at  this  meeting,  on  "  The  New  Pharma- 
cology," defined  pharmacology  as  the  science,  not  art  of  pharmacy.  The  laws 
underlying  pharmaceutical  operations  he  said  are  an  extension  of  the  laws  of 
chemistry. 
NOMENCLATURE  OF  THE  MODERN  SYNTHETICS. 
By  Virgil  Coblentz. 
The  object  of  this  paper  was  to  find  a  method  of  naming  the  various  syn- 
thetic compounds  of  modern  medicine  from  their  chemical  composition.  The 
paper  dealt  with  the  known  and  suggested  origin  of  the  various  organo- 
bismuth  combinations  and  derivatives  of  phenetidin,  pyrazolon,  quinolin  and 
phenol.  Coblentz  claims  that  it  is  not  practicable  at  the  present  time  to  give 
a  system  for  naming  the  modern  synthetics  and  that  the  present  method  is  as 
good  as  we  have. 
PHARMACOLOGY  AND  PHARMACY. 
By  a.  r.  dohme. 
Pharmacology  was  defined  from  the  medical  point  of  view,  and  the  author 
claimed  that  as  it  pertains  to  drugs  it  is  properly  a  part  of  the  study  of  them. 
It  broadens  and  completes  the  knowledge  of  drugs  and  brings  the  pharmacist 
