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guishable  from  non-poisonous  tablets  of  similar  appearance  in 
common  use." 
The  second  bill,  known  as  H.  R.  91 13,  was  introduced  by  Mr. 
L'Engle,  of  Florida,  and  would  make  it  "  unlawful  for  any  person 
to  produce,  import,  manufacture,  compound,  deal .  in,  dispense,  sell, 
distribute  or  give  away  any  poisonous  tablet,  lozenge  or  troche  not 
cubical  in  shape"  or  "any  non-poisonous  tablet,  lozenge  or  troche 
not  in  spherical  or  disk  shape." 
A  third  bill,  introduced  by-  Mr.  Cary,  of  Wisconsin,  designated 
H.  R.  9237,  is  designed  to  amend  the  District  of  Columbia  pharmacy 
act  and  introduces  a  novel  feature  in  poison  legislation  in  that  it 
requires  that  all  orders,  slips  or  prescriptions  for  poisons,  particularly 
bichloride  of  mercury,  be  in. triplicate,  in  addition  to  a  poison  register,, 
and  that  one  of  the  orders  or  prescriptions  is  to  be  retained  as  refer- 
ence and  one  each  is  to  be  filed  daily  with  the  police  department  and 
the  health  department  of  the  District, 
Poisons. — Xrayser  II. — The  Poisons  Schedule  of  England  shows 
how  difficult  it  is  for  legislation  to  keep  pace  with  chemical 
research.  Drugs  having  distinctly  poisonous  action  are  constantly 
being  put  on  the  market,  and  it  has  been  pointed  out  recently  that 
"  there  are  more  poisons  not  on  the  schedule  than  there  are  on  it," 
and  all  these  may  be  sold  or  dispensed  by  anybody,  for  legally  the 
dispensing  of  poisons  means  only  those  that  are  scheduled. — Chem. 
Circ,  1913,  v.  57,  p.  703. 
The -A.  Ph.  A.  Election— -The  balloting  by  mail  for  officers  of 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  for  the  year  1914-15  has 
resulted- in  the  election  of  the  following:  President,  Caswell  A.  Mayo, 
of  New  York ;  Vice-Presidents,  L.  D.  Havenhill,  of  Lawrence,  Kan. ; 
C.  H,  Packard,  of  Boston ;  and  Charles  Gietner,  of  St.  Louis. — Drug. 
Circ.}  1913,  v.  57,  p.  703. 
Drug  -Trade  Exhibition  and  Conference. — The  exhibition  held  in 
the  new  Grand  Central  Palace,  New  York,  October  2-9,  is  not  re- 
garded as  having  been  much  as  a  drug  show,  but  was  accompanied 
by  a  series  ;  of  good  meetings  of  pharmacists  and  physicians,  and 
should  go  far  toward  awakening  an  interest  in  professional  phar- 
macy. The  meetings  were  developed  by  Mr.  Otto  Raubenheimer, 
wmo  deserves  credit  for  the  method  of  conducting  them,  and  for 
securing  the  several  speakers,  who  while  they  confined  themselves 
largely  to  the  discussion  of  matters  of  local  interest,  will  nevertheless 
have  considerable  influence  on  the  development  of  pharmacy  in  other 
