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Correspondence. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pnarn  , 
I  September.  1905. 
QUALIFICATIONS  FOR  ADMISSION  TO  AND  MEMBERSHIP  IN  THE  AMERI- 
CAN CONFERENCE  OF  PHARMACEUTICAL  FACULTIES.1 
At  the  meeting  of  the  American  Conference  of  Pharmaceutical 
Faculties,  held  on  Thursday  evening,  September  8, 1904,  the  report  of 
the  Executive  Committee  contained  a  series  of  articles  defining  the 
qualifications  for  membership  in  the  Conference.  Each  article  was 
considered  separately  and  all  were  subject  to  considerable  discus- 
sion, the  purport  of  which  was  to  so  word  each  article  as  to  make 
the  qualifications  definite  and  acceptable  to  all.  Each  article  was 
finally  adopted  without  dissent.   The  articles  in  detail  are  as  follows  : 
(1)  The  institution  shall  be  incorporated  as  a  college  or  school  of 
pharmacy,  or  be  a  department  of  a  regularly-incorporated  educa- 
tional institution,  or  a  department  of  a  State  university,  or  conducted 
by  an  incorporated  pharmaceutical  society. 
(2)  The  school  or  college  shall  have  been  in  continuous  operation 
in  America  for  at  least  five  years  prior  to  the  date  of  application  for 
membership  in  the  conference. 
(3)  The  institution  shall  include  in  its  courses  of  instruction  oral 
lectures,  personal  laboratory  work,  recitations  and  reviews.  This 
shall  exclude  work  in  absentia. 
(4)  The  institution  shall  require  of  each  candidate  for  graduation 
not  less  than  500  hours  given  to  lectures  and  recitations,  and  not 
less  that  600  hours  of  laboratory  work,  such  work  to  be  given  in  a 
period  of  not  less  that  forty  weeks. 
(5)  The  requirements  for  admission  of  students  to  the  school  or 
college  shall  be  (1)  a  minimum  age  of  seventeen  years,  unless  the 
candidate  is  a  high-school  graduate  or  possesses  an  equivalent  edu- 
cation. 
(6)  If  the  information  furnished  by  the  applicant  be  regarded  as 
sufficient  to  warrant,  the  chairman  of  the  executive  committee  shall 
appoint  a  Committee  of  Visitation,  consisting  of  three  representatives 
of  the  conference,  who  shall  visit  such  institution,  shall  inspect  the 
equipment  and  method  of  instruction,  and  report  their  findings  to 
the  chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee. 
Wilbur  L.  Scoville, 
Secretary. 
1  Abstract  of  Minutes. 
