AmdctJo°b^  8ff* }  The  191 3  Meeting  of  Amer.  Phar.  Asso.  473 
University  of  the  State  of  New  Jersey.  He  was  elected  to  member- 
ship in  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  in  1902,  and  has 
served  as  Secretary  and  as  chairman  of  the  Section  on  Historical 
Pharmacy  and  as  chairman  of  the  Section  on  Practical  Pharmacy 
and  dispensing.  William  C.  Anderson,  Professor  of  Pharmacy  in 
the  Brooklyn  College  of  Pharmacy,  is  well  known  to  the  retail 
druggists  of  the  country,  having  served  as  president  of  the  National 
Association  of  Retail  Druggists  and  as  chairman  of  the  National 
Committee  of  formulas  of  the  American  Druggists'  Syndicate.  He 
was  elected  to  membership  in  the  American  Pharmaceutical  As- 
sociation in  1900  and  has  served  as  Secretary  of  the  Section  on 
Commercial  Interests. 
The  Section  on  Scientific  Papers  presented  a  rather  compre- 
hensive programme  including  a  total  of  fifty-six  communications 
and  covering  practically  all  phases  of  scientific  pharmacy.  Among 
the  more  interesting  of  the  communications  was  one  by  H.  M. 
Gordin  and  Jay  Kaplan  on  the  comparative  adsorption  of  different 
substances  by  Lloyd's  reagent;  animal  charcoal  and  aluminum 
hydroxide.  This  paper  was  read  by  Prof.  John  Uri  Lloyd,  who 
also  presented  a  short  paper  of  his  own  and  exhibited  a  number 
of  samples  of  adsorbed  alkaloids  which  were  practically  tasteless. 
He  also  exhibited  a  number  of  samples  of  alkaloids  produced  by 
means  of  his  reagent.  In  the  course  of  the  discussion  on  this  sub- 
ject it  was  pointed  out  that  pharmacists  frequently  lose  sight  of  the 
possibilities  of  physical  phenomena  and  that  filtering  media  such  as 
kaolin  and  fuller's  earth  when  used  in  connection  with  liquid  pre- 
parations containing  alkaloids  would  serve  to  materially  reduce  the 
alkaloid  content  of  such  preparation. 
A  paper  by  L.  F.  Kebler  on  the  lack  of  uniformity  in  tablets, 
emphasized  the  need  for  greater  care  in  the  manufacture  of  this 
class  of  preparations.  The  discussion  on  a  paper  by  William 
Mansfield  on  papain  of  commerce  called  renewed  attention  to  the 
difficulties  encountered  in  any  attempt  to  standardize  little  used 
drugs  or  preparations  and  suggested  the  desirability  of  restricting 
work  of  this  kind  to  the  more  important  generally  recognized 
remedies  that  are  widely  used. 
The  Section  on  Practical  Pharmacy  and  Dispensing  presented 
a  programme  containing  a  total  of  thirty-one  communications,  and 
several,  at  least,  of  these  papers  contained  points  of  practical  value 
and  elicited  considerable  discussion.    A  paper  by  J.  Leon  Lascoff 
