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Notes  and  News. 
<  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\      March,  1906. 
NOTES  AND  NEWS. 
BULLETIN    OF    THE    AMERICAN     PHARMACEUTICAL    ASSOCIATION. — The 
Council  of  this  Association  has  appropriated  $500  for  the  publication  of  a 
monthly  bulletin,  the  expenditure  of  the  same  to  be  under  the  direction  of  the 
editor,  Prof.  C.  S.  N.  Hallberg.  Two  numbers  of  the  Bulletin  have  thus  far 
appeared.  They  contain  the  transactions  of  the  last  annual  meeting  and  are 
printed  from  advance  sheets  of  the  annual  report.  In  the  editorial  comment 
of  the  February  issue  attention  is  called  to  the  first  local  branch  of  the  Associa- 
tion, which  was  organized  in  Chicago  on  January  16th.  The  meeting  was  con- 
vened by  Prof.  Oscar  Oldberg,  Professor  Hallberg  acting  as  chairman.  It  is  to 
be  hoped  that  other  local  branches  will  be  organized  and  that  thus  the  interest 
in  the  work  of  the  Association  will  be  augmented,  and  that  thereby  the  mem- 
bership will  be  much  increased.  There  is  no  reason  why  the  Association  should 
not  number  5,000  members  by  1910. 
J.  H.  Redsecker,  of  Lebanon,  Pa.,  read  an  interesting  paper  before  the 
Lebanon  County  Historical  Society  on  "  The  Women's  Aid  Society  of  Lebanon 
During  the  War  of  the  Rebellion,"  in  which  he  stated  that  this  society  fed  tens 
of  thousands  of  soldiers  on  their  way  to  the  war,  and  rendered  efficient  aid  to 
the  Sanitary  Commission  and  other  similar  organizations. 
Wild  Medicinal  Plants  oe  the  United  States.— The  Bureau  of  Plant 
Industry  of  the  U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture  has  recently  issued  a  bulletin 
on  this  subject  which  was  prepared  [by  Miss  Alice  Henkel,  Assistant  in  Drug 
Plant  Investigations.  The  common  and  scientific  names  of  the  plants  are  given 
and  also  the  localities  in  which  they  occur. 
William  McInTyre  was  recently  made  chairman  of  a  sub-committee  of  the 
Board  of  Public  Education  in  Philadelphia,  which  has  charge  of  the  Municipal 
School  Gardens.  Miss  Helen  C.  Bennett  is  the  Supervisor  of  the  Gardens, 
which  were  organized  May  12,  1904. 
Prof.  H.  H.  Rusby  has  been  recently  re-elected  president  of  the  Torrey 
Botanical  Club,  which  is  the  oldest  and  probably  the  most  influential  organi- 
zation of  botanists  in  this  country.  It  was  through  one  of  its  members,  Dr. 
Britton,  that  botany  as  a  distinct  department  at  Columbia  University  was 
developed,  and  later  through  him  and  other  members  of  the  club  that  the  New 
York  Botanical  Garden,  which  is  destined  to  become  the  "Kew  Gardens  of 
America,"  was  organized. 
Thomas  S.  Wiegand,  Librarian  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
has  just  completed  fifty  years  ot  active  service  in  the  college,  and  it  is  proposed 
to  commemorate  his  service  by  the  endowment  of  a  scholarship  to  be  known 
as  the  "  Thomas  S.  Wiegand  Scholarship."  For  this  purpose  it  is  proposed  to 
collect  a  fund  of  $3,000  from  the  graduates  of  the  college  and  friends  of  Mr. 
Wiegand.  The  trustees  of  this  fund  are  Prof.  Joseph  P.  Remington,  President 
Howard  B.  French  and  George  M.  Beringer,  the  latter  of  whom  is  the  treasurer 
of  the  committee  and  to  whom  subscriptions  should  be  sent. 
