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last  year,  which  provides  that  "  Any  person  desiring  to  submit  a 
paper  to  the  Association  shall  present  to  the  chairman  of  the  par- 
ticular section  to  which  it  refers  at  least  ten  days  prior  to  the 
meeting  an  abstract  of  said  paper,  indicative  of  its  contents,  and 
consisting  of  not  less  than  fifty  nor  more  than  200  words.  This 
abstract  shall  be  printed  as  a  part  of  the  programme.  The  paper 
itself  must  be  submitted  to  the  officers  of  the  section  previous  to  the 
first  session." 
The  committee  take  pleasure  in  announcing  that  Dr.  Charles 
Baskerville,  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  the  College  of  the  City  of 
New  York,  has  consented  to  deliver  a  popular  lecture  on  "  Radium 
and  Radio-activity,"  on  the  evening  of  Friday,  September  8th.  The 
lecture  will  be  experimentally  illustrated. 
Contributors  are  requested  to  send  their  papers  to  the  chairman 
by  July  20th.  Eustace  H.  Gane,  chairman,  91  Fulton  Street,  New 
York ;  Daniel  Base,  associate  ;  Charles  E.  Caspari,  Secretary. 
June,  1903. 
THE  HISTORY  OF  THE  PHARMACY  OF  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 
The  Committee  on  Historical  Pharmacy  of  the  American  Pharma- 
ceutical Association  has  undertaken  to  collate  data  bearing  on  the 
military  and  naval  pharmacy  of  the  Civil  War,  and  has  issued  an 
appeal  for  aid  from  all  who  have  any  knowledge  of  the  subject. 
The  men  who  participated  in  that  struggle  are  fast  passing  away, 
and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  committee  will  be  successful  in  its 
effort.  The  committee  requests  all  who  are  in  a  position  to  furnish 
information  on  the  subject,  or  who  can  suggest  possible  sources  of 
information,  to  communicate  with  any  of  the  officers  of  the  section 
as  follows:  Albert  E.  Ebert,  chairman,  426  State  Street,  Chicago, 
111 ;  Prof.  Edward  Kremers,  historian,  University  of  Wisconsin, 
Madison,  Wis. ;  Caswell  A.  Mayo,  secretary,  66  West  Broadway, 
New  York 
DELAWARE  PHARMACEUTICAL  SOCIETY. 
The  nineteenth  annual  meeting  of  the  Delaware  Pharmaceutical 
Society  was  held  in  Wilmington  on  Thursday,  June  8,  1905.  The 
business  session  opened  at  1 1  a.m.  and  lasted  three  hours.  John  F. 
Hancock,  of  Baltimore,  made  an  address  eulogizing  the  late  Prof. 
William  Procter,  Jr.,  recounting  what  had  been  done  in  the  way  of 
