ADeimberf ^ig." }    Year  Book  or  Abstract  Journal.  785 
The  Association  first  favored  a  referendum  on  an  increase  in  dues. 
Later,  the  Council  first  decided  for  a  referendum  on  an  increase  in 
dues  with  reference  to  the  issuance  or  non-issuance  of  a  monthly 
Pharmaceutical  Abstract  Journal  or  the  Year  Book,  and  the  next 
day  it  reconsidered  its  action  and  referred  the  question  to  the  Execu- 
tive Committee  for  consideration  and  report  to  the  Council.  The 
minutes  of  this  meeting  of  the  Council  were  read  at  the  final  session 
of  the  Association  (August  30)  and  amended  by  the  Association  as 
follows : 
"  That  the  Association  reconsider  its  action  in  the  matter  of  a 
referendum  on  an  increase  in  dues,  and  that  the  question  in  all  its 
bearings  be  referred  to  the  newly  created  Executive  Committee  of 
the  Council  for  investigation,  and  report  to  the  Council  for  approval, 
and  later,  report  its  findings  at  the  first  general  session  of  the  Asso- 
ciation next  year."    (Journ.  A.  Ph.  A.,  Oct.,  i9i9,  848.) 
"  The  minutes  of  the  Council,  as  amended,  were  then  approved." 
(Journ,  A.  Ph.  A.,  Oct.,  19 19,  848.) 
Obviously,  the  Association  having  decided  against  a  referendum 
on  an  increase  in  dues  "  in  all  its  bearings,"  which  includes  the  issu- 
ance of  publications,  it  is  hardly  in  order,  now,  for  the  Council  or 
its  Executive  Committee, to  take  a  special  postcard  referendum  on 
the  subject  and  the  question  must  await  decision  until  the  next  an- 
nual meeting  of  the  Association  in  1920.  The  Council  cannot  super- 
sede the  Association. 
Hence,  it  is  not  necessary  to  discuss  the  question  of  taking  a 
referendum  vote,  but  it  is  entirely  in  order  to  discuss  the  future  of 
the  Year  Book  and  the  proposition  to  replace  it  with  a  monthly 
Abstract  Journal. 
Personally,  I  believe  that  Mr.  Gathercoal's  suggestion  of  a 
monthly  Abstract  Journal  has  much  to  commend  it.  The  pharma- 
ceutical research  workers  of  the  Association  are  entitled  to  the 
promptest  possible  information  of  all  developments  in  pharmaceu- 
tical research,  but  is  it  necessary  to  abandon  the  Year  Book  to  give 
this? 
R.  W.  Terry  has  suggested  that  the  Journal  give,  each  month,  a 
bibliography  or  list  of  titles  of  articles  of  current  pharmaceutical 
literature,  and  H.  V.  Arny  has  suggested  that  the  Journal  give  an 
"  Index  Pharmaceuticus,"  or  index  of  articles  of  current  pharma- 
ceutical literature ;  but  why  not  give  in  the  Journal,  monthly,  a  list 
of  the  titles  of  original  articles  of  pharmaceutical  periodicals,  for- 
