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branch  taught  in  the  academic  and  scientific  departments  of  the  University, 
for  which  they  are  prepared,  free  of  charge. 
School  of  Pharmacy  of  the  University  of  Michigan. — Alviso  B.  Stevens,  Ph. 
C,  has  been  appointed  for  the  lectures  on  pharmacy,  following  the  resigna-- 
tion  of  Assist.  Prof.  T.  J.  Wrampelmeier.  Mr.  Stevens  is  well  known  as  a 
pharmacist  at  33  Lafayette  Avenue,  Detroit;  graduated  in  pharmacy  at 
Ann  Arbor  in  1875 ;  was  President  of  the  Detroit  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion for  several  years  after  its  organization,  and  is  one  of  the  officers  of  the 
Michigan  State  Association. 
The  North  Carolina  Pharmaceutical  Association  held  its  seventh  annual 
meeting  August  11th  and  12th,  in  Library  Hall  in  Fayetteville.  The  address 
of  the  retiring  president,  H.  E.  Home,  and  the  reports  of  officers,  com- 
mittees and  of  the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy  were  presented  and  discussed. 
Resolutions  were  passed  favoring  the  election  of  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  by 
the  Association ;  in  favor  of  placing  the  financial  affairs  of  this  Board  into 
the  treasury  of  the  Association,  and  in  favor  of  a  rebate  by  the  government 
on  alcohol  used  in  medicine  or  the  arts,  and  of  the  abolition  of  the  special 
tax  as  liquor  dealers  on  druggists  who  sell  alcohol  only. 
In  a  paper  read  by  Mr.  Nadal,  a  formula  for  elixir  of  pyrophosphate  of 
iron,  quinine  and  strychnine  was  given ;  and  Mr.  Calloway  read  a  paper 
giving  the  results  of  the  assay  of  various  samples  of  Fowler's  solution,  showing 
deficiency  of  arsenical  strength  in  several  which  in  some  cases  appears  to 
be  due  to  the  presence  of  calcium  sulphate  as  an  impurity  in  commercial 
white  arsenic;  it  is  advised  that  this  preparation  should  always  be  made  by 
the  apothecary. 
Mr.  A.  W.  Rowland,  of  Wilson,  was  elected  president;  F.  W.  Hancock  of 
Newberne,  B.  E.  Sedberry  of  Fayetteville,  and  J.'  D.  Croom  of  Shoeheel, 
vice-presidents;  J.  C.  Munds  of  Statesville,  secretary;  and  A.  S.  Lee  of 
Raleigh,  treasurer.  The  next  meeting  will  be  held  in  Asheville  on  the  first 
Wednesday  of  August,  1887 ;  W.  C.  Carmichael,  local  secretary. 
The  Tennessee  Pharmaceutical  Association  was  organized  at  Nashville, 
August  10th,  adopted  a  constitution  and  by-laws  and  elected,  for  president, 
R.  H.  Gordon,  Nashville ;  vice  presidents,  F.  W.  Scruggs,  Memphis,  and 
J.  A.  McCampbell,  Knoxville ;  secretary  and  treasurer,  J.  T.  Lellyett, 
Nashville.  Various  committees  were  appointed,  and  steps  were  taken  for 
contesting  before  the  Supreme  Court  a  decision  of  Chancellor  Merritt,  requir- 
ing all  druggists  to  take  out  a  liquor  dealer's  license  of  $350  per  annum ; 
also,  for  having  the  "  special  merchants'  license  act "  of  1882  so  modified  by 
the  Legislature  as  to  relieve  those  druggists  who  confine  themselves  to  the 
sale  of  liquors  for  medicinal  purposes.  The  next  meeting  will  again  be 
held  in  Nashville. 
The  Wisconsin  Pharmaceutical  Association  met  at  its  seventh  annual  meet- 
ing in  Fond  du  Lac,  August  11th,  and  listened  to  an  address  by  the  mayor, 
the  annual  address  by  the  retiring  president  Prentice,  and  the  reports  of 
