532  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference,     {'^^  octiyim*'"™' 
The  following  Committees  were  appointed  by  the  President : 
Committee  on  National  Formulary :  C.  L.  Diehl,  C.  S.  N.  Hallberg,  L.  Eliel, 
C.  T.  P.  Fennel  and  A.  Conrath. 
Committee  on  Revision  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  :  L.  C.  Hopp  in  place  of  A.  B. 
Lyons,  removed  to  Honolulu. 
Committee  on  Arrangements  :  E.  Painter,  K.  Simmons,  T.  N.  Jamieson,  R. 
J.  Brown  and  E.  Sander. 
Committee  to  visit  the  American  Medical  Association  :  Prof.  Remington,  K. 
Simmons,  C  A.  Heinitsh  (two  more  members  to  be  appointed). 
The  Section  on  Commercial  Interests  presented  the  report  of  the  Committee 
on  Exhibits,  recommending  that  the  prize  for  "the  best  general  exhibit"'  be 
awarded  to  Hance  Bros.  &  White,  of  Philadelphia,  and  the  prize  for  the  "  best 
exhibit  of  pharmaceuticals  made  by  a  pharmacist  in  his  own  shop"  to  Feldkamp 
&  Hallberg,  of  Chicago.    The  recommendations  were  adopted. 
After  passing  the  customary  votes  of  thanks  the  Association  adjourned  to 
meet  next  year  in  San  Francisco  at  a  time  to  be  designated  by  the  Committee 
on  Arrangements. 
THE  BRITISH  PHARMACEUTICAL  CONFERENCE. 
After  an  interval  of  twenty-four  years  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference 
has  revisited  Bath.  Although  this  city  was  not,  strictly  speaking,  the  birth- 
place of  the  association,  for  that  name  applies  more  correctly  to  Newcastle-on- 
Tyne,  which  is  to  be  visited  next  year,  Bath  is  the  place  in  which  the  Confer- 
ence first  met  as  an  organization,  in  1864,  since  which  time  its  roll  of  member- 
ship has  increased  from  one  hundred  to  nearly  two  thousand  names.  Such  a 
result,  besides  being  evidence  of  the  fitness  of  the  association  for  survival,  bears 
unmistakable  testimony  to  the  wisdom  and  energy  with  which  its  business  has 
been  conducted  during  the  interval,  no  small  portion  of  the  credit  for  which 
is  due  to  Mr.  F.  Baden  Benger,  who  for  so  many  years  performed  the  duties  of 
one  of  its  Honorary  Secretaries.  It  was  therefore  only  natural  that  on  the  occa- 
sion of  Mr.  Benger  assuming  the  presidential  chair  the  members  should  have 
rallied  heartily  to  his  support  and  secured  the  success  of  the  meeting.  Follow- 
ing the  practice  of  the  two  previous  years,  the  initial  gathering  of  the  members 
of  the  Conference  took  the  form  of  a  Conversazione,  which  was  held  at  the 
Grand  Hotel  on  Monday  evening,  September  3d.  This  gathering  was  marked 
by  the  attendance  of  representative  pharmacists  from  all  parts  of  the  country,, 
including  several  of  the  President's  former  colleagues  on  the  Board  of  Exami- 
ners. 
On  Tuesday  morning,  at  ten  o'clock,  the  Conference  met  for  business  in  the 
large  room  at  the  Grand  Hotel.  As  a  preliminary  the  members  had  the  pleas- 
ure of  listening  to  some  hearty  words  of  welcome  from  the  Mayor  of  the  city,, 
who  expressed  his  regret  that  his  duties  would  prevent  him  from  attending  the 
meetings  of  the  Conference  or  accompanying  the  members  on  their  excursion 
to  Tintern  Abbey.  The  President  gracefully  acknowledged  this  "  official  "  re- 
cognition of  the  Conference,  and  after  the  receipt  of  several  letters  of  regret  at 
inability  to  attend  from  a  number  of  old  friends  of  the  body  had  been  an- 
nounced, and  a  list  of  delegates  appointed  to  attend  the  Conference  by  various 
