396       Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association.    { An^2u£,%?m" 
work  in  every  respect,  and  which  will  prove  to  be  a  valuable  addi- 
tion to  the  literature  on  the  subject. 
A  committee  was  appointed  to  discuss  ways  and  means  of  obtain- 
ing funds  for  next  year's  entertainment,  and  consisted  of  Messrs. 
Cliffe,  Bransome  and  Lemberger. 
The  first  formal,  meeting  of  the  association  was  held  in  the  assem- 
bly room  of  the  hotel,  on  Tuesday  evening,  at  8  o'clock,  and  was 
opened  by  prayer  by  the  Rev.  H.  B.  Townsend.  The  local  secre- 
tary, Mr.  Marcy,  then  introduced  Burgess  Jordan,  of  Bedford,  who 
made  a  pleasant  speech  of  welcome,  which  was  responded  to  in  be- 
half of  the  members  by  W.  O.  Frailey  of  Lancaster,  and  especially 
in  behalf  of  the  ladies  by  Mrs.  W.  F.  Horn,  of  Carlisle. 
First  Vice-President  Wray  then  took  the  chair  while  President 
Koch  presented  his  annual  address.  In  his  address  President  Koch 
began  by  relerring  to  the  Prerequisite  Law,  which  had  been  recently 
passed,  and  stated  that  it  marked  a  new  era  in  the  history  of  phar- 
maceutical education,  inasmuch  as  it  now  enabled  the  colleges  of 
pharmacy  to  do  that  which  they  had  long  desired  but  were  never  able 
to  do — raise  the  preliminary  requirements.  He  said  that  in  an  im- 
portant matter  of  this  kind  the  Board  and  the  colleges  should  be  in 
perfect  harmony  to  achieve  the  best  results,  and  that  the  elevation 
of  the  standard  would  necessarily  have  to  be  gradual  and  not  revo- 
lutionary. He  also  referred  to  Section  6  of  the  present  Pharmacy 
Law,  which  allows  the  sale  of  medicines  by  grocery  and  department 
stores,  and  recommended  its  repeal.  The  registration  of  apprentices 
and  the  ownership  of  the  prescription,  which  latter  question  has 
recently  been  decided  in  North  Carolina  by  legislative  enactment, 
were  also  referred  to  the  Legislative  Committee  for  their  considera- 
tion, with  a  view  of  pbtaining  the  necessary  legal  enactment.  He 
commended  the  Legislative  Committee  particularly  upon  the  work 
which  had  been  done  during  the  past  year,  not  only  along  the  line 
of  obtaining  beneficial  legislation,  but  also  in  preventing  obnoxious 
legislation.  He  re-endorsed  the  Mann  Bill  and  recommended  that 
its  passage  be  secured  at  as  early  a  date  as  possible.  The  N.A.R.D. 
was  referred  to  in  commendatory  terms,  and  the  American  Pharma- 
tical  Association  was  also  endorsed  unhesitatingly,  and  attention 
was  called  to  the  September  meeting  of  that  body  in  Atlantic  City, 
and  the  fact  that  less  than  4  per  cent,  of  the  druggists  of  the  United 
States  were  members  of  the  body.    The  membership  of  the  State 
