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Announcements. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1919. 
A  GRANT  FOR  RESEARCH. 
The  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  has  available  a  sum 
amounting  to  about  $240.00  which  will  be  expended  during  1919- 
1920  for  the  encouragement  of  research.  This  amount  either  in  full 
or  in  fractions  will  be  awarded  in  such  manner  as  will  in  the  judg- 
ment of  the  A.  Ph.  A.  Research  Committee  produce  the  greatest 
good  to  American  pharmaceutical  research. 
Investigators  desiring  financial  aid  in  their  work  will  communi- 
cate before  August  first  with  H.  V.  Arny,  Chairman  A.  Ph.  A. 
Research  Committee,  115  W.  68th  St.,  New  York,  giving  their  past 
record  and  outlining  the  particular  line  of  work  for  which  the  grant 
is  desired. 
The  committee  will  give  each  application  its  careful  attention 
and  will  make  recommendations  to  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  at  its  meeting  in  New  York,  August  25-29,  1919,  when 
the  award  or  awards  will  be  made. 
PHILADELPHIA  DRUG  EXCHANGE  APPEALS  FOR 
REDUCTION  IN  THE  NUMBER  OF  NARCOTIC 
DRUG  FORMULAE. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Philadelphia  Drug 
Exchange  held  on  May  14,  191 9,  a  motion  was  passed  directing  the 
secretary  to  communicate  with  the  American  Drug  Manufacturers 
Association  and  other  drug  manufacturing  bodies,  calling  attention 
to  the  apparently  needless  multiplication  in  the  price  lists  of  manu- 
facturing pharmacists  of  narcotic  drug  formulas  of  many  unneces- 
sary strengths,  urging  that  the  number  be  minimized  to  the  fewest 
possible  units,  so  that  the  burden  of  making  out  the  federal  and 
state  narcotic  reports  be  reduced  to  the  lowest  possible  limit. 
Thus,  for  example,  in  the  price  list  of  a  prominent  manufacturer 
there  are  of  hypodermic  tablets  of  morphine,  plain  and  combined,  37 
strengths ;  of  heroin,  5  strengths ;  of  diacetylmorphine,  4  strengths ; 
of  codeine,  6  strengths  ;  of  cocaine,  8  strengths.  There  are  72  items 
in  the  list  of  hypodermic  tablets  subject  to  the  Harrison  law.  In 
the  same  list,  under  tablet  triturates  there  are  99  items ;  under  com- 
pressed tablets,  43  items ;  under  chocolate  coated  tablets,  54  items ; 
under  dispensary  tablets,  8  items ;  under  pills,  49  items ;  a  total  in 
