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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
I  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
(     October,  1913. 
remembered  as  being-  epoch-making  in  that  the  associations  have 
undertaken  to  develop  activities  heretofore  generally  ignored. 
The  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  its  meeting  in  the 
City  of  Nashville  during  the  week  of  August  18th  established  a  com- 
mission to  study  and  to  report  on  the  uses  and  limitations  of 
proprietary  remedies. 
The  National  Association  of  Retail  Druggists  at  its  meeting  in 
the  City  of  Cincinnati  the  following  week  devoted  considerable  time 
to  the  discussion  of  the  proposed  Federal  antinarcotic  legislation, 
and  while  in  a  general  way,  the  Association  endorsed  the  work  of 
the  National  Drug  Trade  Conference,  a  number  of  exceptions  to 
the  so-called  Harrison  Bill,  H.  R.  6282,  now  pending  in  Congress, 
were  taken,  and  the  Committee  on  National  legislation  was  in- 
structed to  bring  these  exceptions  to  the  attention  of  persons  in- 
terested. 
Many  of  the  State  Pharmaceutical  Associations  have  already 
held  their  annual  sessions  and  from  the  published  reports  in  drug 
and  other  journals  the  meetings  this  year  have  been  more  than 
usually  successful.  Several  of  the  state  associations  report  material 
accessions  to  their  membership  and  at  all  of  the  meetings  this  year 
the  interest  in  organization  work  appears  to  have  been  well  main- 
tained. 
Drug  Plant  Exhibition. — The  annual  meeting  of  the  American 
Medical  Association  was  referred  to  at  some  length  in  a  previous 
number  of  this  Journal  (August,  p.  380)  but  the  account  failed 
to  call  attention  to  the  unusually  interesting1  exhibits  of  a  scientific 
nature.  From  a  pharmaceutical  point  of  view  the  collection  of 
drugs,  growing  as  well  as  dried,  made  by  the  Department  of 
Pharmacy  of  the  University  of  Minnesota  was  of  greatest  interest. 
It  was  particularly  unfortunate  that  this  really  excellent  collection 
of  material  was  not  shown  in  connection  with  other  exhibits  in  the 
main  building  so  as  to  have  been  available  for  study  by  a  greater 
number  of  visiting  members  of  the  A.  M.  A. 
The  Association  of  Food,  Dairy  and  Drug  Officials  held  its  an- 
nual meeting  at  Mobile,  Alabama,  June  16  to  20,  1913.  To  the 
pharmacists  of  the  country  the  annual  meetings  of  this  Association 
should  be  of  immediate  interest  though  the  proceedings  are  but 
seldom  reported  in  drug  journals  and  very  infrequently  indeed 
commented  on  by  pharmacists  themselves.  From  a  report  of  the 
proceedings  for  this  year  (The  American  Food  Journal,  July,  1913), 
