260  Nezvs  Items  and  Personal  Notes.    { Am.  jour.  Pharm. 
«-        April,  1919. 
Dr.  Beal's  work  in  behalf  of  pharmacy  is  too  well  known  to  re- 
quire any  recounting  at  the  present  time.  As  general  secretary  of 
the  A.  Ph.  A.  and  as  the  first  editor  of  the  Journal  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  as  member  and  president  of  the  National 
Drug  Trade  Conference,  as  chairman  of  the  Commission  on  Pro- 
prietary Medicines,  as  chairman  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  U. 
S.  Pharmacopceial  Convention,  and  in  many  other  ways  has  he  shown 
his  exceptional  ability  and  his  earnest  efforts  in  behalf  of  the  pro- 
fession. The  honor  is  deserved  and  the  distinction  accorded  is  fully 
merited. 
