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Instruction  in  Pharmacy. 
Am.  Jour.  Pbarm. 
July,  1913. 
a  laboratory  where  careful  attention  could  be  given  to  the  various 
methods  of  drug  assay,  both  qualitative  and  quantitative,  and  com- 
parisons made  between  methods  now  official  and  proposed.  So 
only  will  we  be  successful  in  finding  the  best  and  simplest  methods 
and  bring  them  international  recognition.  And,  as  I  mentioned  at 
the  Brussels  Conference  in  1902,  it  is  not  sufficient  to  give  the 
alkaloidal  content  of  a  drug;  it  is  also  necessary  to  state  in  which 
manner  it  is  best  determined.  For  it  is  well  known  that  the 
methods  in  the  several  pharmacopoeias  lead  to  very  different  re- 
sults. Hence,  there  should  be  connected  with  this  International 
Pharmacopoeial  Bureau  a  laboratory  which  should  have,  under  the 
guidance  of  the  directors  of  the  Bureau,  the  services  of  an  active, 
well-trained  apothecary. 
As  the  seat  of  this  Bureau  I  would  suggest  the  city  of  Bern, 
where  so  many  international  bureaus  are  successfully  established, 
and  I  would  also  suggest  that  it  would  be  well  for  this  International 
Bureau  to  be  connected  with  the  Schweizeriche  Sanitary  Board — 
temporarily,  at  least — until  it  is  strong  enough  to  stand  on  its  own 
feet. 
To  bring  about  the  realization  of  this  plan  it  would,  to  my 
mind,  only  be  necessary  for  the  Schweizeriche  Apothekerverein, 
through  the  Swiss  Sanitary  Board's  highest  Council,  to  make 
the  proposal  and  invite  a  conference  of  pharmacopoeial  experts 
from  all  interested  countries  to  consider  the  plan  and  eventually 
form  some  program  for  action. 
Bern,  19x3. 
CONCERNING  INSTRUCTION  IN  PHARMACY  AND  THE 
CONFERRING  OF  DEGREES.1 
By  B.  E.  Pritchard. 
The  Druggists'  Circular  in  its  issue  for  May,  1913,  contains  an 
editorial  upon  "  Some  Common  Misconceptions,"  and  the  editor 
tells  his  readers  that  "  there  seems  to  be  a  great  deal  of  misunder- 
standing "  about  a  large  number  of  things  connected  with  phar- 
macy, as  well  as  several  other  matters,  and  reaches  the  very  sane 
1  Read  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  As- 
sociation, June,  1913. 
