Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
October,  1906. 
}    American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
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member  of  council  for  the  unexpired  term  of  Mr.  Mittelbach. 
Thomas  P.  Cook,  New  York,  was  elected  Local  Secretary. 
The  first  meeting  of  the  Section  on  Education  and  Legislation 
was  called  to  order  by  the  chairman  on  Tuesday  afternoon.  The 
first  order  of  business  being  the  address  of  the  chairman  this  was 
immediately  proceeded  with.  This  address  constituted  a  rather 
exhaustive  review  of :  "  Our  relations  to  the  public,  the  attitude  of 
druggists  towards  better  education,  the  relations  between  physicians 
and  pharmacists,  our  pharmacy  laws,  the  powers  of  boards  of  phar- 
macy, the  requirements  for  license,  our  schools  of  pharmacy,  and, 
finally,  the  presentation  of  certain  general  principles  which  seem  to 
require  discussion  and  action." 
This  address  was  presented  to  what  was  probably  the  largest,  most 
attentive  and  most  directly  interested  audience  ever  present  at  the 
meeting  of  this,  or  any  other,  Section  of  the  American  Pharma- 
ceutical Association. 
The  report  of  the  secretary,  Mr.  Jos.  W.  England,  contained  a 
resume  of  the  replies  received  from  seventy  schools  of  pharmacy. 
Much  of  this  information  had  been  arranged  in  tabulated  form,  and 
will,  undoubtedly,  be  found  to  be  of  great  value  when  published  in 
a  form  to  be  carefully  studied. 
The  discussion  of  the  propositions  contained  in  the  printed  pro. 
gramme  was  then  proceeded  with.  The  first  of  these  is  :  "  All  laws 
and  regulations  governing  the  licensing  of  pharmacists  should  make 
due  distinction  between  apprentices,  clerks  and  principals,  and  should 
establish  definite  minimum  qualifications  and  indicate  the  rights  and 
duties  of  each  of  these  three  classes  of  pharmaceutical  workers." 
This  proposition  was,  on  motion,  approved.  The  second  proposi- 
tion elicited  considerable  discussion.    It  read  as  follows : 
"  The  age  of  seventeen  years  and  a  preliminary  general  education 
of  one  year's  satisfactorily  completed  high-school  work,  or  its  educa- 
tional equivalent,  should  be  the  minimum  prerequisites  to  the  prac- 
tical pharmaceutical  experience  or  apprenticeship  demanded  by  the 
laws,  and  no  drug-store  experience  acquired  at  an  earlier  age  or 
before  the  attainment  of  the  preliminary  education  prescribed  should 
be  accepted  as  sufficiently  effective  to  satisfy  the  intent  of  the  law." 
SECTION  ON  EDUCATION  AND  LEGISLATION. 
Oscar  Oudberg,  Chairman. 
Jos.  W.  Engund,  Secretary. 
