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der  Nahrungs-  und  Genussmittel,  as  well  as  associate  editor  for  the 
Jahresberichte  fuer  Agrikulturchemie  and  Jahresbcrichte  der  Pharmacie . 
Among  the  many  honors  conferred  upon  Professor  Hilger  were  the 
Rectorate  ot  the  University  of  Erlangen,  the  titles  of  Koeniglicher 
Hofrat  and  Obermedizinalrat,  Doctor  honoris  causa  of  the  University 
of  Bologna,  the  Bavarian  Order  of  St.  Michael,  and  the  Prussian 
Order  of  the  Red  Eagle,  as  well  as  active  and  honorary  memberships 
in  many  scientific  societies.  Professor  Hilger's  genial  and  democratic 
character  endeared  him  to  his  students,  assistants  and  colleagues. 
He  was  regular  in  his  visits  to  his  laboratories  and  untiring  in  his 
attention  to  all  classes  of  students.  His  memory  will  ever  remain 
dear  in  the  hearts  of  all  his  students  and  friends. 
CHAIRMAN'S  ADDRESS  BEFORE  THE  SECTION  ON 
EDUCATION  AND  LEGISLATION.1 
By  Harry  B.  Mason. 
In  my  address  as  Chairman  of  this  Section  at  Kansas  City  last 
September  the  statement  was  hazarded  that  the  association  year 
then  closing  had  ushered  in  what  would  prove  to  be  a  new  era  in 
the  evolutionary  development  of  the  calling.  It  was  pointed  out 
that  the  movement  for  State  legislation  in  pharmacy,  entered  upon 
thirty  years  before,  and  compelling  druggists  to  undergo  State  board 
examinations  before  they  could  practise  their  calling,  had  been 
brought  to  its  culmination  during  the  year  by  the  action  of  Congress 
in  providing  Indian  Territory  with  a  statute ;  that  the  next  stage  in 
the  legislative  process  had  been  immediately  approached  by  the  en- 
actment in  New  York  State  of  a  "  prerequisite  "  law  making  gradu- 
ation from  a  reputable  college  of  pharmacy  compulsory  on  the  part 
of  licensed  proprietors ;  that  this  new  movement  would  proceed 
slowly  but  nevertheless  surely  towards  its  completion  as  the  previous 
one  had  done ;  and  that  from  these  and  other  phenomena  it  was 
evident  that  we  were  clearly  and  definitely  entering  upon  an  epoch 
of  more  severe  educational  standards  in  pharmacy,  and  an  epoch 
consequently  of  greater  commercial  and  professional  betterment. 
That  this  prediction  was  justified  is  abundantly  apparent  from  the 
1  Delivered  at  the  Atlantic  City  Meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  held  September  4  to  9,  1905. 
