^o^SST"}         The  Regulation  of  Degrees.  445 
New  Jersey  adopted  a  law  regulating  the  sale  and  manufacture 
of  insecticides  and  also  a  law  designed  to  restrict  the  sale  of  methyl 
alcohol. 
New  York  enacted  the  Walker  bill  to  restrict  the  sale  of  cocaine; 
also  adopted  an  amendment  to  the  pure  food  and  drug  law. 
North  Dakota  adopted  laws  to  prohibit  the  sale  and  the  use  of 
snuff  and  of  cigarettes. 
Ohio  enacted  a  law  placing  the  enforcement  of  food  and  drugs 
laws  in  the  hands  of  a  commission ;  also  provides  for  the  revocation 
of  certificates  to  practice  pharmacy  and  enacted  an  amendment  to 
the  laws  regulating  the  sale  and  use  of  narcotics  a  law  relating  to 
the  misbranding  of  drugs  and  a  law  designed  to  prevent  occupational 
intoxications. 
Oregon  enacted  a  revised  law  to  regulate  the  practice  of  phar- 
macy, sale  of  poisons  and  sale  and  use  of  narcotic  drugs,  also 
adopted  a  law  forbidding  the  advertisement  of  cures  for  venereal 
diseases  in  newspapers  and  making  the  editor  of  the  newspaper 
equally  liable  with  the  advertiser. 
Pennsylvania  enacted  a  law  designed  to  prevent  lead  poisoning. 
Rhode  Island  penalizes  the  promiscuous  distribution  or  giving 
away  of  medicine  or  other  article  which  contains  any  drug  or 
poison. 
Vermont  enacted  an  amendment  to  the  food  and  drugs  law ;  also 
adopted  a  regulation  making  venereal  diseases  reportable. 
Wisconsin  adopted  a  law  designed  to  restrict  the  sale  of  habit- 
forming  drugs ;  also  a  law  which  requires  the  reporting  of  venereal 
diseases. 
Wyoming  adopted  an  amendment  of  the  law  regulating  the 
sale  of  habit-forming  drugs;  also  an  amendment  to  the  pure  food 
law. 
THE  REGULATION  OF  DEGREES.1 
By  A.  B.  Stevens. 
Doubtless  the  question  of  regulating  degrees  given  by  colleges 
and  schools  of  pharmacy  will  be  considered  by  the  Pharmaceutical 
Conference  of  Teaching  Colleges.  It  ought  to  be  perfectly  feasible 
for  the  Conference  to  state  what  degrees  they  will  recognize  and 
1  Read  at  the  Nashville  meeting  of  the  American  Conference  of  Pharma- 
ceutical Faculties,  August,  1913. 
