Aroctober,^905!m" }     American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  483 
should  be  one  ot  the  greatest  of  applied  sciences,  and  the  pharma- 
cist should  occupy  as  high  a  position  as  the  physician  or  the  chem- 
ist ..  .  Side  by  side  with  investigations  in  pure  science,  we 
need  to  give  more  attention  to  the  problems  confronting  the  practi- 
cal pharmacist  which  require  for  their  solution  the  aid  of  our  scien- 
tific investigators.  What  hope  is  there  of  securing  due  recognition 
of  the  applied  science  of  pharmacy  when  the  perhaps  more  fascinat- 
ing field  of  pure  science  attracts  most  of  our  most  capable  workers  ?  " 
The  address,  which  should  be  read  in  full  and  which  we  hope  to 
publish  in  a  later  issue  of  this  Journal,  was  referred  to  a  committee 
composed  as  follows :  W.  A.  Puckner,  E.  H.  Bartley  and  Samuel  P. 
Sadtler. 
The  Committee  on  Ebert  Prize  announced  through  its  chairman, 
H.  H.  Rusby,  that  the  prize  had  been  awarded  to  Prof.  Ernst 
Schmidt,  University  of  Marburg,  for  his  paper  entitled  "  Concerning 
Choline,  Neurine,  and  Allied  Compounds." 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Drug  Market  was  presented 
in  the  absence  of  the  chairman,  E.  L.  Patch,  by  Lyman  F.  Kebler. 
The  report  was  adopted,  as  was  also  the  following  resolution,  which 
was  referred  to  the  General  Session : 
Resolved,  That  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  earnestly  condemns 
the  use  of  any  form  of  wood  alcohol  in  any  pharmaceutical  or  proprietary 
preparation,  whether  designed  for  internal  or  external  medical  use,  or  to  be 
applied  as  a  toilet  lotion. 
The  following  papers  were  presented : 
Scopoline.  By  Ernest  Schmidt.  Presented  by  Edward  Kremers. 
This  paper  presented  a  continuation  of  the  report  made  by  the 
author  to  the  Association  in  1892.  The  study  of  the  constitution  ot 
scopoline  was  conducted  along  parallel  lines  to  those  which  had 
proved  successful  in  revealing  the  structure  of  tropine,  tropidine, 
tropinone  and  related  compounds.  The  author,  however,  arrived  at 
the  conclusion  that  the  analogy,  assumed  for  the  purpose  of  rational 
investigation,  was  not  upheld  by  the  facts  revealed  by  the  experi- 
ments reported.  Three  lines  of  investigation  were  presented:  (1) 
Attempts  to  remove  the  oxygen,  [a)  dehydration,  and  {&)  indirect 
reduction ;  (2)  the  distillation  of  scopoligenine,  with  zinc  dust  in  an 
atmosphere  of  hydrogen  resulting  in  the  formation  of  pyridine,  and 
(3)  oxidation  with  (a)  bromine  (yielding  scopoligenine),  (b)  with 
hydrogen  dioxide  (yielding  an  unstable  oxidation  product),  and  (c) 
