Am,  Jour.  Pharm.  ) 
Oct.,  1875.  ; 
Editorial, 
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Mr.  Piper  called  attention  to  the  propriety  of  providing  solutions  of  atropia  (and 
incidentally  medicines  containing  poisons)  with  a  poison  or  otherwise  cautionary 
label.    Referred  to  conference  with  the  Board  of  Health. 
Swiss  Apothecaries'  Society. — The  thirty- first  annual  meeting  was  held  in  the 
city  of  Berne,  August  nth  and  12th,  President  Professor  Buttin,  of  Lausanne,  in 
the  chair,  Mr.  W.  Mueller,  of  Zurich,  Secretary.  After  the  opening  address  by  the 
President,  Vice-president  Schaer  welcomed  the  delegates  present  from  the  German 
Apothecaries'  Society,  Dr.  Schacht,  of  Beilin,  and  Dr.  Leube,  ot  Ulm,  who,  in  re- 
sponding, extended  an  invitation  to  visit  the  meeting  of  the  German  Association!- 
Professor  Perrenoud  subsequently  being  elected  delegate  for  this  purpose. 
Milk  assays  formed  the  subject  of  a  discourse  by  Dr.  Mueller  5  volatile  oils  and 
some  of  their  derivatives,  by  Professor  Perrenoud  5  apparatus  for  the  dispensing  of 
powders  in  wafer  capsules,  by  Mr.  W.  Mueller  5  and  the  stability  of  chloral-chloro- 
form, by  Dr.  Schacht ;  the  latter  pointing  out  the  danger  attending  the  use  of  this 
compound  for  anaesthetic  purposes.  A  printed  report  of  the  council  embracing  prop- 
ositions relating  to  the  examination,  the  rights  and  duties  of  apothecaries  under  the 
new  Federal  Constitution  of  Switzerland,  was  then  discussed  j  also  the  supplement 
to  the  Swiss  Pharmacopoeia,  the  German  text  of  which  was  completed,  the  Latin 
translation  being  expected  to  be  finished  in  a  few  months.  The  letter  from  che 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  (see  page  375  of  our  August  Number)  was  read, 
accepted  with  thanks,  and  a  German  and  French  translation  of  it  ordered  to  be  pub- 
lished in  the  "  Swiss  Pharmaceutical  Weekly." 
Seventeen  new  members  were  balloted  for  j  Neufchatel  was  selected  for  holding 
the  next  annual  meeting,  and  the  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  ensuing  year  t 
President,  Professor  E.  Schaer,  of  Zurich  j  Vice-president,  Professor  L.  Buttin,  of 
Lausanne  j  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Mr.  B.  Studer,  Jr.,  of  Berne. 
EDITORIAL  DEPARTMENT. 
The  Twenty-third  Annual  Meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  is  over,  and  its  records  will  soon  be  open  for  the  inspection  of  alL 
To  say  that  it  was  a  success  is  hardly  sufficient  to  do  justice  to  the  admirable 
arrangements  made  by  the  Local  Committee  in  conjunction  with  the  Local  Secre- 
tary, Mr,  S.  A.  D.  Sheppard,  all  of  whom  have  done  their  utmost  by  incessant  labor 
both  before  and  during  the  progress  of  the  meeting,  to  make  it  a  memorable  one  in 
the  history  of  the  Association,  not  merely  through  the  lavlshness  with  which  money 
was  expended,  but  for  the  almost  perfection  with  which  even  the  details  of  the  various 
arrangements  had  been  previously  considered,  leaving  little  to  be  desired  except  in 
point  of  time. 
The  visiting  members  commenced  to  arrive  Sunday,  September  4th,  when  the 
steamer  William  Crane  landed  a  party  from  Baltimore  and  Virginia.  The  steamer 
Norman,  which  reached  her  wharf  at  Boston  on  Monday  forenoon,  brought  a  large 
