Ato'ctober,Ii9a51!nj'}    American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  499 
"Women  in  Practical  Pharmacy."  By  Amanda  W.  Stahl  and 
Clara  M.  Malarkey. 
"  Benzine,  Naphtha  and  Gasoline,"  and  "  Permanent  Ointment  of 
Red  Mercuric  Oxide."    By  Otto  Raubenheimer. 
The  officers  elected  by  this  Section  for  the  coming  year  were 
Wm.  C.  Alpers,  chairman;  H.  A.  B.  Dunning,  secretary;  W.  C. 
Gross,  associate. 
FINAL  GENERAL  SESSIONS. 
The  newly  elected  officers  were  installed  at  a  special  session  on 
Friday  afternoon,  it  having  been  the  custom  heretofore  to  reserve 
this  ceremony  for  the  final  session  on  Saturday. 
Of  the  various  matters  acted  upon  by  Council  and  approved  by 
the  Association,  the  following  may  be  noted  :  The  appointment  of 
a  Committe  on  Publicity,  consisting  of  Lewis  C.  Hopp  and  E.  H. 
Gane ;  an  honorarium  to  C.  Lewis  Diehl,  as  part  compensation  for 
his  work  on  the  National  Formulary ;  authorization  of  the  Treasurer 
to  pay  to  the  four  drug  journals — American  Druggist,  Bulletin  of 
Pharmacy,  Druggists  Circular  and  Merck's  Report — the  $325  ad- 
vanced by  each  of  them  for  the  publication  of  the  semi-centennial 
index;  the  selection  of  C.  S.  N.  Hallberg  as  editor  of  the 
A.  Ph.  A.  Bulletin,  Francis  B.  Hays  as  Reporter  to  Public  Press, 
and  of  Frank  H.  Carter,  of  Indianapolis,  as  Local  Secretary.  The 
request  from  the  Scientific  Section  that  Council  arrange  so  as  to  hold 
simultaneous  sessions,  and  provide  for  three  sessions  of  the  Scientific 
Section,  was  referred  to  a  committee  consisting  of  Charles  Caspari, 
Jr.,  F.  H.  Carter  and  J.  L.  Lemberger.  The  Commercial  Section 
also  made  a  request  for  another  session. 
A  resolution  offered  by  S.  A.  D.  Sheppard,  expressing  apprecia- 
tion of  the  presence  of  representatives  of  the  Government  at  the 
meeting,  and  instructing  the  Secretary  to  express  to  the  Secretary 
of  Agriculture,  the  Surgeon-General  of  the  Public  Health  and 
Marine  Hospital  Service,  appreciation  of  the  work  done  at  Wash- 
ington, of  the  papers  presented  to  the  Scientific  Section  and  of  the 
exhibits  made  in  connection  therewith,  was  adopted. 
The  report  of  the  committee  appointed  to  consider  the  report  of 
the  delegates  to  the  Section  on  Pharmacology  of  the  American 
Medical  Association  recommended  that  the  A.  Ph.  A.  commend  all 
efforts  to  differentiate  between  the  various  so-called  proprietary 
remedies  with  a  view  of  correcting  the  abuses  at  present  existing  in 
