^oSr,SSm  }  The  T9^3  Meeting  of  Amer.  Phar.  Asso.  477 
sicians  dispensing  poisons  and  drugs  which  are  exempted  from 
the  regulations  placed  upon  drugs  dispensed  by  pharmacists ; 
That  an  effort  should  be  made  to  secure  the  enactment  of  state 
laws  doing  away  with  such  exemptions ; 
That  Section  7  of  the  Food  and  Drugs  Act,  June  30,  1906,  be 
amended  to  restrict  deviations  from  the  official  standards; 
That  the  several  revision  committees  be  requested  to  include 
synonyms  in  the  U.  S.  P.  and  N.  F. ; 
That  efforts  to  secure  greater  uniformity  in  pharmacopceial 
nomenclature  be  endorsed,  and  that  the  delegates  to  the  International 
Congress  of  Pharmacy  be  instructed  to  favor  the  appointment  of  a 
commission  to  secure  international  uniformity. 
The  Secretary  of  the  Association  was  on  motion  instructed  to 
forward  a  telegram  to  the  Committee  on  Finance  of  the  Senate 
of  the  United  States  and  to  Representative  Francis  B.  Harrison, 
advising  that  the  A.  Ph.  A.  had  endorsed  the  act  known  as  R.  H. 
6282  and  was  heartily  in  favor  of  its  passage  at  the  present  session 
of  Congress. 
The  Committee  on  the  Procter  Monument  Fund  reported  that 
the  necessary  funds  to  insure  the  erection  of  the  monument  in 
the  Smithsonian  grounds  at  Washington,  D.  C,  were  now  in  hand 
and  recommended  that  a  committee  of  seven  be  named  to  complete 
arrangements  for  the  erection  of  the  monument  and  to  pass  on  the 
models  of  the  sculptors  that  may  be  submitted.  After  some  dis- 
cussion it  was  on  motion  agreed  that  the  present  committee  be 
continued  with  instructions  to  select  an  executive  committee  of 
seven  members  to  have  immediate  charge  of  the  erection  of  the 
monument. 
The  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  in 
1914  is  to  be  held  in  the  City  of  Detroit.  Mr.  Leonard  A.  Seltzer, 
one  of  the  more  aggressive  pharmacists  of  that  City  and  a  member 
of  the  Michigan  Board  of  Pharmacy,  was  elected  to  serve  as  Local 
Secretary. 
Albert  B.  Lyons,  of  Detroit,  Michigan,  was  elected  Honorary 
President. 
In  concluding  this  brief  review  of  the  proceedings,  it  may  be 
pointed  out  that  the  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  As- 
sociation at  Nashville  has  once  more  demonstrated  the  impractica- 
bility of  holding  the  interest  of  members  by  the  presentation  of  a 
discontinuous  program  according  to  which  sessions  of  the  several 
