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Pharmaceutical  Research. 
5  *  *  Tnur.  Pharm. 
I  February,  1921. 
those  associations  or  societies  that  have  as  a  basis  for  membership 
research.  Consequently,  if  pharmacy  would  seek  a  part  in  the 
scheme  of  this  co-operative  national  movement,  it  must  organize  its 
research  committee,  association  or  section  composed  of  research 
workers  and  those  interests  in  pharmacy  that  are  concerned  in  re- 
search, so  that  scientific  pharmaceutic  investigation  will  be  stimu- 
lated and  properly  directed. 
It  would  appear  that  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association 
is  the  proper  body  to  organize  pharmaceutical  research  that  it  may 
be  assigned  to  its  proper  field  of  usefulness  and  correlated  in  the 
scheme  of  the  National  Research  Council,  and  its  Committee  on 
Research  is  charged  with  this  duty.  The  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  is  acknowledged  to  be  the  scientific  support  of  the  drug 
industries  and  the  organization  of  research  must  now  become 
another  means  of  exhibiting  its  leadership  and  useful  activity  in 
behalf  of  pharmacy.  It  must  hold  aloft  the  torch  of  learning  and 
transmit  the  knowledge  acquired  from  the  contributions  of  the  past 
with  increased  brightness  and  added  store  and  energy  to  the  future 
generations. 
Upon  the  Colleges  of  Pharmacy  we  must  rely  for  support.  Not 
only  should  their  faculties  be  composed  of  enthusiastic  research 
workers  capable  of  carrying  on  scientific  investigation,  but  every 
student  in  the  higher  or  post-graduate  courses  should  be  given 
training  in  the  original  investigations  of  problems  pharmaceutic. 
This  is  a  feasible  plan  by  which  the  work  of  the  past  can  be  perpetu- 
ated and  the  needed  army  of  research  workers  in  pharmacy  may  be 
gradually  built  up  of  the  proper  material. 
In  closing  permit  me  to  refer  to  the  Biological  Exploration  of 
the  Amazon  Basin  under  Dr.  H.  H.  Rusby.  While  the  newspapers 
have  very  commonly  spoken  of  this  as  an  expedition  of  chemists,  it 
is  organized,  controlled  and  financed  by  pharmacists,  and  to  a  very 
large  degree  it  is  a  pharmaceutical  research  expedition,  and  is  typical 
of  many  more  extensive  pieces  of  research  that  would  become  feas- 
ible under  an  organized  pharmaceutical  research  endowment. 
