Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
July.  1906. 
Notes  and  News. 
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NOTES  AND  NEWS. 
The  Proceedings  oe  the  A.  Ph.  A.  at  the  fifty-third  annual  meeting,  held 
at  Atlantic  City,  N.  J.,  September,  1905,  has  just  been  issued.  The  frontispiece  is 
an  excellent  portrait  of  the  late  Prof.  Albert  B.  Prescott,  who  was  the  President 
of  the  Association  in  1899-1900.  When  one  looks  over  the  proceedings  and  sees 
the  amount  of  original  and  useful  information  as  embodied  in  the  papers,  dis- 
cussions, reports  (including  the  one  on  "  Progress  in  Pharmacy  "),  it  is  difficult 
to  understand  why  more  retail  pharmacists  are  not  members  of  the  Association. 
It  would  seem  as  though  with  the  efforts  which  are  being  made  to  raise  the 
status  of  the  colleges  of  pharmacy  in  the  United  States,  the  graduates  of  the 
various  schools  would  furnish  the  recruits  of  the  Association.  Either  the 
Association  should  reach  these  men  or  they  should  be  taught  the  value  of 
membership  in  the  Association  as  illustrated  in  the  proceedings. 
The  National  Formulary  of  Unofficial  Preparations  (third  edition)  will 
shortly  be  ready  for  delivery.  A  considerable  number  of  new  formulas  have 
been  introduced  into  the  new  edition  and  all  formulas  of  the  previous  edition 
have  been  carefully  revised  and  corrected  in  accordance  with  satisfactory  results 
obtained  after  due  investigation,  and  it  is  confidently  believed  that  as  now  given 
they  will  prove  entirely  satisfactory.  All  formulas  dismissed  from  the  1900 
Pharmacopoeia,  about  eighty-four  in  number,  together  with  thirty  obsolete 
U.S. P.  formulas  carried  in  the  general  text  of  the  Formulary  heretofore,  have 
been  transferred  to  the  "Appendix." 
The  National  Formulary  will  be  issued  at  the  following  prices  : 
Cloth,  plain,  $1.00  per  copy;  cloth,  interleaved,  $1.25  per  copy;  sheep,  plain, 
$1.35  per  copy;  sheep,  interleaved,  $1.50  per  copy.  Special  discounts  will  be 
allowed  to  dealers  and  others  buying  in  similar  quantities.  Delivery  of  all 
orders  will  be  prepaid  by  the  Association  and  will  be  made  strictly  in  the 
sequence  in  which  the  orders  are  received.  All  orders  for  the  National  Formu- 
lary should  be  addressed  to  the  General  Secretary  of  the  American  Pharma- 
ceutical Association,  Charles  Caspari,  Jr.,  Department  of  Pharmacy,  University 
of  Maryland,  Baltimore,  Md.  Remittances  should  be  made  in  cash  by  regis- 
tered mail,  or  by  P.  O.  Money  Order  or  New  York  Exchange.  Local  checks 
require  collection  fee,  and  should  not  be  sent. 
Dr.  Edward  Kremers  delivered  an  address  entitled  "The  College  of  Phar- 
macy "  at  the  commencement  exercises  of  the  University  of  Illinois  School  of 
Pharmacy.  The  address  has  appeared  in  a  number  of  pharmaceutical  journals 
and  is  of  considerable  historical  interest  as  showing  the  evolution  of  the  col- 
leges of  pharmacy,  while  at  the  same  time  pointing  out  their  trend  at  the 
present  time. 
Prof.  John  Uri  Lloyd,  who  is  now  travelling  in  the  Orient,  was  in 
Smyrna  early  in  May.  Professor  Lloyd  is  communicating  a  series  of  interest- 
ing letters  on  his  travels  to  the  Electic  Medical  Journal,  the  first  appearing  in 
the  May  issue  and  giving  an  account  of  his  trip  to  the  Azores. 
The  Missouri  Pharmaceutical  Association  held  its  twenty-eighth  annual 
meeting  at  Pertle  Springs,  June  12-15.  Ninety  members,  fifty  salesmen  and 
about  one  hundred  and  fifty  visitors  were  present.    President  J.  F.  Llewellyn's 
