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Editor — George  M.  Beringer. 
Librarian — Katharine  H.  Nagle. 
Trustees  Elected  for  Three  Years. — Samuel  P.  Sadtler,  Wm.  L. 
ClirTe,  H.  K.  Mulford. 
Publication  Committee. — Joseph  W.  England,  Chas.  H.  LaWall, 
Geo.  M.  Beringer,  John  K.  Thum,  J.  W.  Sturmer,  R.  P.  Fischelis, 
E.  F.  Cook. 
Committee  of  Pharmaceutical  Meetings. — C.  B.  Lowe,  M.D., 
Geo.  M.  Beringer,  Chas.  H.  LaWall,  E.  Fullerton  Cook,  John  K. 
Thum. 
The  following  appointments  were  made  by  the  president : 
Committee  on  By-Laws. — George  M.  Beringer,  Joseph  W.  Eng- 
land, C.  A.  Weidemann,  M.D. 
Delegates  to  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association. — 
Charles  H.  LaWall,  chairman,  Freeman  P.  Stroup,  F.  X.  Moerk, 
E.  Fullerton  Cook,  J.  W.  Sturmer,  O.  W.  Osterland,  John  K.  Thum. 
Delegates  to  the  New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Association.—- 
George  M.  Beringer,  chairman,  C.  B.  Lowe,  Charles  H.  LaWall,  J. 
W.  Sturmer,  H.  W.  Youngken. 
Delegates  to  the  Delaware  Pharmaceutical  Association. — A.  W. 
Miller,  chairman,  C.  B.  Lowe,  H.  J.  Watson,  S.  L.  Foster. 
C.  A.  Weidemann,  M.D., 
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BOOK  REVIEWS. 
Chemistry  in  Old  Philadelphia.  By  Edgar  F.  Smith,  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania.  Printed  by  the  J.  B.  Lippincott  Com- 
pany, Philadelphia,  Pa.,  1919. 
In  this  small  book  of  106  pages  the  facile  pen  of  Provost  Smith 
has  presented  a  very  interesting  and  instructive  story.  The  author, 
one  of  America's  leading  chemists  and  educators,  demonstrates  anew 
that  the  true  scientist  and  student  loves  to  delve  into  the  historical 
mines  of  science  and  learns  much  from  studying  the  characters,  life 
works  and  services  of  those  who,  in  the  past,  were  devotees  of  the 
sciences  in  which  he  is  now  working. 
The  book  presents  in  a  most  inviting  manner  the  status  of  the 
knowledge  of  chemistry  and  physics  and  of  some  of  the  theories 
prevailing,  in  the  colonial  days  and  in  the  early  period  of  the  exist- 
