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(Am.  iour.  Pharm. 
X  December,  1905. 
on  Medical  Detail  to  provide  and  distribute  literature  pertaining  to 
U.S.P.  and  N.F.  preparations  among  the  members  of  the  medical 
profession.  The  line  of  work  outlined  in  the  second  resolution,  if 
properly  instituted  and  conscientiously  carried  out,  would  be  not 
alone  commendable  but  should  prove  of  inestimable  value  to  the 
members  of  the  medical  and  pharmaceutical  professions  and  would 
also  be  of  direct  benefit  to  that  greater  and  infinitely  more  impor- 
tant class,  the  individual  members  of  the  community  whose  health 
and  welfare  are  so  largely  dependent  on  the  knowledge,  honesty  of 
purpose  and  efficiency  of  medical  men. 
American  Pharmacologic  Society. — On  October  21,  1905,  there  was 
born  at  the  Hotel  Astor,  in  New  York  City,  a  society  that  has  for 
its  object  the  protection  and  advancement  of  the  science  of  materia 
medica  and  the  study  and  protection  of  proprietary  and  non-pro- 
prietary materia  medica  products,  the  manufacturers  of  which  are 
willing  to  co-operate  with  the  society  by  standardizing  and  main- 
taining the  standards  of  their  brands.  The  scope  of  the  association 
is  to  be  a  very  broad  one,  and  it  is  proposed  to  include  in  its  mem- 
bership physicians,  pharmacists,  manufacturers  and  others  who  may 
be  interested  in  the  study  and  advancement  of  the  science  of  phar- 
macology. The  term  pharmacology  in  this  connection  is  defined 
to  include  pharmacy,  pharmacodynamics,  pharmacognosis  and  drug 
therapeutics.  Dr.  Wilcox  was  chosen  as  the  first  president,  and  Dr. 
Stewart  was  chosen  as  secretary  of  the  society.  [Drug.  Circ.}  No- 
vember, 1905,  page  409.) 
The  Liege  Congress. — The  International  Congress  of  Chemisty  and 
Pharmacy  at  Liege,  Belgium,  July  26  to  29,  1905,  appears  to  have 
attracted  comparatively  little  attention  outside  of  Belgium.  Accord- 
ing to  the  Chemist  and  Druggist  (August,  1905,  page  253)  the  soli- 
tary congressist  of  English  or  American  origin  was  Dr.  F.  B.  Power, 
of  London.  The  University  of  Liege  was  the  meeting  place,  and 
the  work  itself  was  divided  among  nine  separate  sections. 
The  Seventy-seventh  Annual  Meeting  of  the  German  Naturalists  and 
Physicians  was  held  in  Meran  from  the  24th  to  the  28th  of  Septem- 
ber, 1905.  As  usual,  the  meeting  was  well  attended,  and  the  several 
sections  had  presented  to  them  a  large  number  of  interesting  and 
valuable  communications,  of  which  a  fair  proportion,  relating  more 
directly  to  pharmacy,  were  read  at  the  meetings  of  the  section  on 
pharmacy  and  pharmacognosy. 
Trade-marks  and  Patents. — Gnomon  (Phar.  Jour.,  September, 
