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PROCEEDINGS  OF  STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSO- 
CIATIONS. 
The  Dakota  (Northern  District)  Pharmaceutical  Association  held  its  annual 
meeting  in  Jamestown  August  7th  and  8th.  Vice-president  Siegfried  presided. 
Mr.  Allen  welcomed  the  Association  in  an  appropriate  speech.  Reports 
were  received  from  the  secretary,  treasurer,  and  the  several  committees. 
Among  the  work  inaugurated  at  this  meeting  is  the  revision  of  the  territo- 
rial pharmacy  law,  for  which  purpose  a  committee  was  appointed  charged 
with  consulting  with  a  similar  committee  of  the  South  Dakota  Association 
and  with  the  Pharmacy  Board,  and  with  presenting  to  the  next  legislature 
suitable  amendments  to  the  law.  The  following  officers  were  elected  for 
the  ensuing  year :  C.  N.  Valentine,  La  Moure,  president ;  D.  F.  Siegfried, 
Sanborn,  and  C.  P.  Trepanier,  Grand  Forks,  vice-presidents  ;  H.  L.  Haus- 
samen,  Grafton,  secretary,  and  E.  C.  Maxey,  Fargo,  treasurer.  The  next 
meeting  will  be  held  at  Fargo,  at  a  time  to  be  named  by  the  Executive 
Committee. 
The  South  Dakota  Pharmaceutical  Association  met  in  Huron,  August  25th, 
President  Branch  in  the  chair,  and  was  welcomed  by  Mayor  Rice.  Besides 
the  president's  address  and  the  reports  of  other  officers  and  committees, 
several  papers  claimed  the  attention  of  the  meeting,  the  subjects  being  the 
use  of  powdered  opium  in  the  preparation  of  the  tincture ;  the  preparation 
of  tinctures  and  wines  from  fluid  extracts ;  the  keeping  of  poisons  ;  physi- 
cians dispensing  vs.  pharmacists  prescribing ;  and  the  renewal  of  prescrip- 
tions. Amendments  to  the  pharmacy  law  were  discussed,  and  a  committee 
was  appointed  to  act  in  conjunction  with  a  similar  committee  from  the 
North  Dakota  Association.  The  officers  elected  are :  W.  S.  Branch,  Par- 
ker, president;  C.  Burch,  Huron,  and  JST.  G.  S.  Marie,  Frankfort,  vice-presi- 
dents; I.  A.  Keith,  Lake  Preston,  secretary ;  D.  T.  Dunning,  Sioux  Falls, 
treasurer,  and  B.  F.  Stearns,  local  secretary,  for  the  next  annual  meeting,  to 
be  held  at  Aberdeen,  on  the  third  Tuesday  of  August,  1889. 
The  Illinois  Pharmaceutical  Association  assembled  in  Peoria  at  its  ninth 
annual  meeting,  August  21st  to  23d ;  President  H.  Smith  in  the  chair.  Mayor 
Warner  extended  the  hospitalities  of  the  city.  The  president  presented  his 
annual  address,  and  the  secretary  and  treasurer  their  annual  reports.  Re- 
ports were  also  received  and  properly  disposed  of  from  the  Board  of  Phar- 
macy and  from  the  various  committees.  Regarding  the  report  on  the  re- 
vision of  the  Pharmacopoeia  it  was  referred  to  a  committee  with  the  view  of 
ascertaining,  by  means  of  a  series  of  questions,  the  wishes  of  the  pharmacists 
of  the  State.  A  resolution  was  passed  requesting  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  to 
rescind  the  rule  requiring  two  years  practical  experience  in  the  State  before 
a  person  could  become  a  candidate  for  examination  ;  also  another  resolution 
in  favor  of  examinations  in  practical  dispensing. 
A  lengthy  report  on  reorganization  with  the  view  of  making  every  regis- 
tered pharmacist  of  the  State  a  member,  and  enlisting  his  personal  participa- 
tion in  carrying  out  the  objects  of  the  Association  and  of  the  pharmacy  law, 
