5 1 8         Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations.  {^0™%*^"* 
At  the  evening  session,  the  constitution  was  signed  and  the  initiation  fee  of  $2.00 
paid  by  those  present,  after  which  the  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  ensuing 
year:  President,  J.  F.  Judge,  Cincinnati;  Vice  Presidents,  J.  N.  McCoy,  Kenton j 
M.  S.  Mooney,  Cardington;  Secretary,  Lewis  C.  Hopp,  Cleveland ;  Treasurer,, 
Charles  Huston,  Columbus.  Executive  Committee — S.  S.  West,  Cleveland;  Thos. 
J  Casper,  Springfield;  Charles  W.  Tobey,  Troy. 
Delegates  were  also  elected  to  the  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation, and  committees  on  trade  interests,  on  papers  and  queries,  and  on  pharmacy 
laws  were  appointed.  The  Executive  Committee  was  empowered  to  take  the  proper 
steps  for  the  incorporation  of  the  association. 
The  next  meeting  will  be  held  at  Dayton  on  the  third  Wednesday  in  May  next. 
After  passing  sundry  votes  of  thanks  the  Association  adjourned,  to  participate  in  a 
banquet  tendered  to  the  members  at  Ruhl,  Corbett  &  Co's  by  the  Columbus  druggists. 
British  Pharmaceutical  Conference. — After  an  interval  of  six  years  the  British 
Pharmaceutical  Conference  has  again  visited  the  county  of  the  ridings  and  for  the 
second  time  experienced  the  hospitality  of  their  Yorkshire  confreres.  In  point  of 
numbers  the  meeting  has  been  a  most  successful  one,  one  hundred  and  forty-five 
names  having  been  signed  in  the  visitor's  book.  The  company  included  many  of 
the  best  known  pharmacists  in  the  three  Kingdoms  as  well  as  delegates  from  several 
kindred  associations,  amongst  them,  notably,  the  Pharmaceutical  Societies  of  Great 
Britain  and  Ireland,  which  were  represented  by  their  respective  Presidents  and 
several  members  of  their  Councils.  Nor  do  we  think  that  the  general  verdict  upon 
the  papers  read  and  the  discussions,  as  compared  with  those  of  former  years,  will  be 
an  unfavorable  one.  Early  in  the  meeting,  however,  one  most  unwelcome  fact  was- 
revealed  in  the  reading  of  the  report,  namely,  that  the  Senior  General  Secretary, 
Professor  Attfield,  to  whose  energy  and  enthusiasm  the  present  position  of  the  Con- 
ference may  be  in  a  large  measure  attributed,  had  unexpectedly  intimated  his  inten- 
tion of  resigning  his  present  office,  although  at  the  request  of  the  committee  he  had 
consented  to  hold  it  during  one  more  year.  The  appreciation  of  his  services  by  the 
Executive  Committee  was  evinced  by  the  prompt  formation  of  a  provisional  com- 
mittee, to  which  many  other  members  present  added  their  names.  The  Honorary 
Secretary  is  Mr.  M.  Carteighe,  and  the  business  of  the  committee  will  be  to  consider 
the  best  method  of  testifying  to  Professor  Attfield  the  sense  of  the  Conference  as  to 
its  indebtedness  to  him. 
The  Presidential  Address  was  chiefly  devoted  to  carrying  out  the  contrast 
between  the  ideal  and  actual  position  of  the  pharmacist  in  Great  Britain  which  Mr. 
Schacht  had  presented  to  the  Conference  last  year. 
Once  more  Dr.  Wright  has  provided  a  report  on  the  aconite  alkaloids,  the  present 
one  being  devoted  to  the  alkaloids  from  Japanese  aconite,  atis  root  and  the  leaves, 
flower  and  stalks  of  English  grown  aconite.  From  Japanese  aconite  Dr.  Wright 
reports  that  he  has  obtained  a  crystallizable  alkaloid,  agreeing  in  composition  with 
the  formula  C66H88N2Ou,  which  is  itself  in  some  respects  more  stable  than  aconitin 
and  pseudaconitin,  in  not  yielding  "apo"  derivatives,  and  he  appears  to  think  it 
may  be  a  dehydrated  derivative  of  a  hypothetical  parent  base.     As  an  incident  of 
