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Kuhn,  local  secretary. 
New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Association. — The  sixteenth  annual  meeting  took 
place  at  Newark,  May  19.  Several  papers  were  read,  the  titles  of  which  have 
not  been  received.  Mr.  J.  B.  Kilmer,  of  New  Brunswick,  was  elected  presi- 
dent ;  the  treasurer,  recording  secretary  and  corresponding  secretary  were  re- 
elected.   Next  meeting  at  Paterson,  on  the  third  Wednesday  of  May,  1887. 
New  York  Pharmaceutical  Association. — President  Macmahan  presided  at  the 
eighth  meeting  held  at  Bochester,  June  8-10.  An  address  of  welcome  by  the 
Mayor,  the  president's  address,  and  reports  of  officers  and  committees,  occupied 
the  greater  part  of  three  sessions.  An  appropriation  not  exceeding  $50,  was 
made  with  the  view  of  reorganizing  the  National  Retail  Druggists'  Association  ; 
and  the  official  recognition  of  exhibits  at  the  time  of  the  meeting,  was  abol- 
ished. The  papers  read  were  of  interest  and  importance,  and  were  quite 
numerous.  The  officers  elected  are:  C  Z.  Otis,  Binghamton,  president ;  J.  H. 
Smith,  Au  Sable  Forks,  J.  Thomas,  Buffalo,  and  R.  E.  Phillips,  Fulton,  vice- 
presidents  ;  secretary  and  treasurer  were  re-elected.  The  next  meeting  will  be 
held  at  the  Thousand  Islands  Park,  the  date  to  be  announced  by  the  executive 
committee.    R.  E.  Phillips,  Fulton,  is  local  secretary. 
Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association. — The  ninth  arnual  meeting  convened 
in  the  court  house  at  Lebanon,  at  2  o'clock  p.m.,  on  Tuesday,  June  8th,  and  afttr 
holding  six  sessions,  adjourned  on  Thursday.  President  George  presided,  and 
Dr.  J.  A.  Miller,  the  secretary,  was  at  his  post.  The  various  officers  and  com- 
mittees presented  their  reports.  A  very  elaborate  report  on  unofficinal  formulas 
was  read  by  the  chairman,  C.  T.  George,  of  Harrisburg,  presenting  numerous 
formulas  more  or  less  in  use,  and  many  of  them  offered  in  the  place  of  defec- 
tive formulas  of  the  New  York  and  Brooklyn  Formulary.  The  report  was 
ordered  to  be  commuQicated  to  the  Committee  of  the  American  Pharmaceuti- 
cal Association,  also  to  be  published  in  advance  of  the  proceedings,  in  the 
"  Pharmaceutische  Rundschau  "  of  New  York.  The  report  on  adulterations  and 
sophistications  created  considerable  discussion,  mainly  on  the  sale  of  oil  ofbetula 
lenta  in  the  place  of  oil  of  gaultheria,  the  position  being  taken  that  the  former 
should  not  be  sold  for  the  latter,  although  the  two  were  in  the  main,  chem- 
ically identical;  the  relation  between  these  two  volatile  oils  being  similar  to 
those  of  staranise  and  anise,  and  of  Chinese  cinnamon  and  Ceylon  cinnamon- 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Apprentices,  made  by  the  chairman  Wm, 
B.  Thompson,  commented  favorably  on  the  action  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy,  which  had  adopted  a  plan  matured  by  Wallace  Procter,  involv- 
ing the  a  »pointment  of  a  special  committee  for  the  purpose  of  examining,  free 
of  charge,  young  men  contemplating  to  become  apprentices  of  pharmacy,  with 
the  view  of  determining  their  fitness  for  such  a  course  from  their  general  edu- 
cation and  knowledge. 
The  report  on  pharmaceutical  legislation  embraced  the  draft  of  a  State  phar- 
macy law,  which  had  been  communicated  to  all  druggists  in  the  State,  and  was 
now  considered,  somewhat  amended  and  referred  to  a  committee  for  presenta- 
tion to  the  legislature. 
A  circular  communication  from  the  National  Retail  Druggists'  Association  was 
read  and  ordered  to  be  placed  on  file. 
A  resolution  was  passed  declaring  the  distribution  in  the  meeting  room  of 
