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The  following  members  were  elected  delegates  to  the  next  meeting  of  the  Ameri- 
can Pharmaceutical  Association  :  A.  L.  Calder,  Charles  Congdon,  W.  B.  Blanding 
and  W.  F.  Teston. 
After  the  transaction  of  some  routine  and  other  business,  the  members  with  their 
ladies  and  invited  guests  dined  at  the  Aquidneck  House. 
New  York  Alumm  Association  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy.— The  regular  quarterly  meeting  was  held  on  Tuesday,  June  27th,  in  Plimp- 
ton Hall,  and  the  attendance  of  members  being  small,  was  more  of  asocial  character. 
Some  discussion  was  indulged  in  regarding  Warburg's  tincture,  which  has,  of  late, 
attracted  much  attention  from  the  medical  profession  and  press.  A  specimen  of 
the  tincture  was  presented  made  according  to  the  original  formula  of  Dr.  Warburg,, 
containing  the  confectio  damocratis  (?)  which  alone  contains  48  different  ingredi- 
ents.   After  some  further  remarks,  the  meeting  adjourned. 
Edw.  Plummer,  Secretary. 
The  Pharmaceutical  Association  of  South  Carolina,  which  was  incorpo- 
rated by  act  of  the  Legislature,  approved  by  the  Governor  March  10th,  1876,  was 
organized  at  Charleston,  July  5th,  when'the  following  officers  were  elected  for  the 
ensuing  year:  President,  G.  J.  Luhn,  Charleston;  Vice  Presidents,  E.  H.  Heinitsh, 
Columbia;  W.  C.  McMillan,  Marion;  Secretary,  C.  G.  Erckman,  Charles- 
ton ;  Treasurer,  Dr.  H.  Baer,  Charleston  ;  Pharmaceutical  Examiners  for  Charleston 
—A.  W.  Eckel.  Dr.  E.  H.  Kellers,  A.  H.  Schwacke,  E.  S.  Burnham  ;  Pharmaceu- 
tical Examiners  for  Columbia — C.  H.  Miot,  E.  H.  Heinitsh,  L.  T.  Silliman,  W. 
C.  McGregor. 
The  association,  through  the  board  of  Examiners,  has  full  power  to  license  phar- 
maceutists, apothecaries  and  druggists  within  the  State.  Each  of  the  two  Boards, 
four  members  of  which  constitute  a  quorum,  is  constituted  besides  the  gentlemen 
named  above,  of  two  other  persons  to  be  appointed  respectively  by  the  Medical 
College  of  the  State  of  South  Carolina  (for  Charleston),  and  by  the  Medical  Faculty 
of  the  University  of  South  Carolina  (for  Columbia).  The  Boards  are  elected  to 
serve  for  one  year. 
EDITORIAL  DEPARTMENT. 
The  Twenty-fourth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical. 
Association  will  be  held  at  the  Hall  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
commencing  September  12th,  at  3  o'clock  P.  M.  The  notice  of  the  Permanent 
Secretary  will  be  issued  early  in  August,  and  give  information  in  regard  to  the  hotel 
accommodations  provided  for  the  visiting  members.  It  is  not  unlikely  that  the 
hotels  near  the  College  building  may  then  be  well  filled,  since  numerous  conven- 
tions and  society  meetings  will  be  held  in  Philadelphia  about  the  same  time.  Am- 
ple accomodations,  however,  can  be  had  within  a  convenient  distance  from  the  place 
