Am. jour.^Pharm.j.    American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  525 
Chapt.  vi.,  Art.  viii.,  Sect.  2,  relating  to  the  proposition  of  members  was 
merely  changed  in  phraseology. 
Chapt.  viii.,  Art.  iv.  The  life  membership  fees  were  fixed  for  members  after 
25  years  at  |30,  after  30  years  at  $20,  and  after  35  years  at  $10. 
The  Section  on  Commercial  Interests  held  two  sessions  on  the  afternoon  and 
evening  of  Tuesday,  Sept.  4.  The  chairman,  A.  H.  Hollister,  and  Secretary,  J. 
W.  Colcord,  were  re-elected.  The  secretary's  report  suggested  that  the  State 
Associations  be  requested  to  send  to  this  section  any  suggestion  for  trade 
improvement. 
A  resolution  laid  over  from  last  year  was  adopted  as  follows  : 
Resolved,  That  the  Secretary  of  the  Section  on  Commercial  Interests  be  direc- 
ted to  correspond  with  manufacturers  and  dealers  requesting  them  to  label 
their  products  in  conformity  with  the  official  nomenclature,  and  to  designate 
strengths  by  the  specific  gravity  or  percentage  strength,  abolishing  arbitrary 
signs  and  obsolete  standards,  such  as  "F"  marks  and  Beaume,  and  that  the 
co-operation  of  the  National  Wholesale  Druggists  Association  towards  securing 
said  result  be  solicited. 
A  committee  consisting  of  Frederick  Wilcox,  Waterbury,  Conn.,  J.  F.  Patton, 
York,  Pa.,  and  A.  K.  Finlay,  New  Orleans,  was  appointed  to  examine  and  re- 
port upon  exhibits. 
A  resolution  offered  by  Mr.  Canning  requesting  manufacturers  not  to  sell  re- 
bate goods  to  firms  retailing  the  same  in  their  wholesale  stores,  was  referred  to 
a  committee  consisting  of  Messrs.  Canning,  Hallberg  and  Eccles.  The  report 
presented  by  that  committee  at  the  evening  session  was  fully  discussed  and  led 
to  the  indefinite  postponement  of  the  subject. 
There  was  some  discussion  about  the  substitution  of  preparations  by  different 
manufacturers,  but  no  action  was  taken. 
At  the  evening  session  the  Michigan  Pharmaceutical  Association,  whose  an- 
nual meeting  was  being  held  the  same  week,  was  present  in  a  body.  The 
chairman,  Mr.  Hollister,  read  his  annual  address  dwelling  upon  the  necessity 
of  pharmacists  employing  all  the  means  which  the  educational  advantages  of 
the  present  time  afford.  The  apprentice  should  be  of  unimpeachable  character, 
have  at  least  a  thorough  common-school  education,  and  should  be  afforded  op- 
portunity and  assistance  for  improvement.  The  relation  of  the  physician 
and  the  pharmacist  should  be  defined  in  a  straightforward  business-like  way. 
Drug  stores  being  classed  as  hazardous  and  extra-hazardous,  the  question  of 
fire  insurance  calls  for  concerted  action.  The  tariff  on  medicines  calls  for  care- 
ful consideration,  and  the  $25  United  States  revenue  tax  should  be  wiped  out. 
The  cultivation  of  medicinal  plants  is  of  economic  importance,  and  should  be  en- 
couraged by  Congress.  The  "  cutting  craze  "  was  alluded  to,  and  the  question 
was  asked  :  Why  should. wholesalers  injure  the  business  of  their  correspondents 
and  customers  by  retailing  goods  at  less  than  marked  rates,  and  even  at  rates 
as  contemptible  as  those  off'ered  by  the  scalper  ? 
Mr.  Frank  Wells  read  a  paper  on  the  liquor  question,  as  affecting  pharma- 
cists. 
The  different  recommendations  in  the  chairman's  address  were  discussed  and 
concurred  in.   A  motion  by  Mr.  Hallberg  in  favor  of  the  abolition  of  the  spec- 
ial internal  revenue  tax  on  the  sale  of  liquor  was  adopted.   A  similar  resolu- 
.  tion  had  been  passed  in  1887. 
