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facts  and  data  relating  to  shortcomings  and  impracticable  require- 
ments in  this  book  and  to  report  to  the  chairman  of  the  Pharma- 
copceial  Revision  Committee  requesting  that  the  necessary  changes 
be  made  at  the  earliest  possible  date. 
Public  Health  Defence  League. — This  is  the  name  that  was  tenta- 
tively adopted  by  the  delegates  who  were  present  at  a  conference, 
to  devise  ways  and  means  to  protect  the  public  health  and  morals, 
held  in  the  Hudson  Theatre,  New  York,  on  November  15,  1906. 
The  Conference  was  held  under  the  auspices  of  the  Medical  Society 
of  the  County  of  New  York  and  was  attended  by  upwards  of  three 
hundred  delegates  and  persons  otherwise  interested. 
The  immediate  object  of  the  Conference  was  the  formation  of  a 
national  organization  to  obtain  and  to  disseminate  accurate  informa- 
tion concerning  practices  and  conditions  that  are  dangerous  to  public 
health  and  morals  and  to  combat  these  practices  and  abuses  by  the 
education  and  enlightenment  of  the  public,  the  enactment  of  needed 
laws  and  by  the  temperate  enforcement  of  existing  laws  and  statutes. 
The  delegates  present  adopted  a  set  of  resolutions  adopting  or 
endorsing  a  proposed  charter  and  continuing  the  Conference  com- 
mittee to  effect  a  permanent  organization. 
German  Naturalists  and  Physicians. — The  seventy-eighth  annual 
meeting  of  this  organization  was  held  this  year  in  Stuttgart,  from 
the  1 6th  to  the  22d  of  September.  The  Section  for  Pharmacy  and 
Pharmacognosy  of  this  association  bears  to  pharmacy  in  Germany 
relatively  the  same  position  that  the  Section  on  Scientific  Papers  of 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  does  to  pharmacy  in  our 
own  country.  The  papers  presented  to  this  section  this  year  were 
numerous  but  dealt  largely  with  subjects  of  but  secondary  import- 
ance to  the  active  pharmacist.  In  commenting  on  the  nature  of  the 
communications  that  were  presented  this  year  the  German  pharma- 
ceutical journals  generally  have  deplored  the  ultrascientific  character 
of  these  communications  and  the  general  lack  of  practical  informa- 
tion more  directly  useful  to  the  busy  pharmacist  in  his  every-day 
work. 
Perkin  Jubilee  in  America. — The  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anni- 
versary of  the  discovery  of  the  first  aniline  color,  by  Sir  William 
Henry  Perkin,  which  was  held  in  London,  in  July,  has  been  supple- 
mented by  a  corresponding  celebration  in  New  York  City,  at  which 
Sir  William  Henry  Perkin  was  the  guest  of  honor.   One  of  the  chief 
