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a  clearing  house.  The  applicant  for  reciprocity  secures  the  official 
reciprocal  application  .blank  from  this  office  on  payment  of  the  re- 
quired fee  of  $15  (which  fee  goes  for  the  up-keep  of  the  National 
Association  of  Boards  of  Pharmacy  and  the  bringing-about  of  uni- 
formity in  examination  methods,  etc.-;  in  the  various  States).  Cer- 
tification as  to  registration  and  grades  must  be  made  on  this  blank 
by  the  Secretary  of  the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy  in  the  State  where 
he  is  registered  by  examination.  The  application  then  goes  to  the 
Secretary  of  the  State  where  registration  is  desired,  with  the  required 
amount  of  State  registration  fee. 
"By  agreement  between  the  various  Boards  of  Pharmacy  certain 
minimum  requirements  were  adopted  at  the  time  of  the  organization 
of  the  National  Association  of  Boards  of  Pharmacy  with  reference 
to  standards,  etc.,  which  a  State  Board  of  Pharmacy  must  come  up 
to  in  order  to  have  their  licentiate  recognized  in  other  States.  Since 
these  minimum  requirements  were  adopted,  the  Association  has  en- 
deavored to  consistently  advance  the  standards  in  the  various  States 
from  time  to  time,  and  an  applicant  for  reciprocity  must  meet  these 
higher  standards,  providing  he  was  registered  since  they  went  into 
effect.  This  plan  of  reciprocity  is  working  out  very  satisfactorily, 
both  with  reference  to  accommodating  those  who  wish  to  go  from 
one  State  to  another,  and  also  tends  to  raise  the  standards  of  all 
States,  since  those  States  lagging  behind  lose  the  benefits  of  recip- 
rocity for  their  recent  licentiates." 
In  this  connection,  Lucius  L.  Walton,  Secretary  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania State  Board  of  Pharmacy,  writes  me  (May  2,  1921)  as  fol- 
lows : 
"In  the  list  of  active  member  States  between  which  reciprocity 
is  in  force,  the  reciprocity  exists  between  them  in  so  far  as  the  laws 
of  the  respective  States  will  permit.  In  addition  to  this  list  is  New 
York  as  an  associate  member,  approving  and  supporting  the  organ- 
ization, but  holding?  aloof  from  participating  in  the  reciprocal  meth- 
ods of  the  Association. 
"The  affiliated  active  list  gives  evidence  of  the  general  approval 
of  the  organization  by  the  Boards  of  Pharmacy  of  nearly  all  of  the 
States.  The  attendance  upon  the  annual  meetings  of  the  National 
Association  of  the  Boards  of  Pharmacy  gives  evidence  of  the  interest 
and  desire  upon  the  part  of  at  least  60  per  cent,  of  the  boards  to  per- 
fect the  organization  and  bring  about  uniform  requirements  and 
methods  for  determining  the  same. 
"At  the  meeting  of  the  Second  District  of  the  Boards  held  in 
Atlantic  City  last  November,  the  New  York  delegation  agreed  to 
propose  that  reciprocity  be  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Regents  of  the 
State  of  New  York,  based  upon  the  qualifications  of  the  individual 
