542  Laws  and  Pharmaceutical  Licensure.       { A  Aug°uSrt  ^Y™' 
applicants.2  This  is  really  what  we  do  in  Pennsylvania.  Originally 
the  prerequisite  provision  of  State  laws  were  so  drawn  that  there 
could  be  no  reciprocity  unless  the  participating  States  had  the  same 
legal  requirements  for  registration. 
"The  National  Association  of  Boards  of  Pharmacy  represents 
the  State  Boards  of  forty-three  States  and  the  District  of  Columbia ; 
it  does  not  represent  California,  New  Jersey,  Rhode  Island  and 
Wyoming,  while  New  York  has  only  associate  membership. 
"Our  national  organization  cannot  compel  any  State  Board  to 
make  a  reciprocal  registration  if  it  does  not  want  to  make  it.  It  rep- 
resents the  consensus  of  opinions  of  its  constituent  members  on  all 
questions  relating  to  requirements  and  examination  methods  through 
its  constitution  and  by-laws,  which  the  members  are  expected  to  co- 
operate in  making  effective,  except  when  the  law  of  some  State  pre- 
vents." 
The  National  Association  of  Boards  of  Pharmacy  was  organized 
in  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  in  September,  1904,  in  accordance  with  a 
resolution  passed  by  the  Mackinac  meeting  of  the  American  Pharma- 
ceutical Association  in  1903. 
By  these  facts,  it  will  be  seen  that  the  National  Association  of 
Boards  of  Pharmacy  has  contributed  more  probably  to  the  advance- 
ment of  the  legal  standards  of  pharmacy  than  any  other  single 
agency.  In  later  years  it  has  had  the  co-operation  of  the  American 
Conference  of  Pharmaceutical  Faculties  (organized  in  1900),  which 
has  done  much  to  aid  the  organization  in  its  work  for  the  legal  bet- 
terment of  the  practice  of  pharmacy. 
Pharmaceutical  education  and  legislation  should  go  hand  in 
hand,  to  the  end  that  the  interests  of  pharmaceutical  education  may 
be  promoted,  pharmaceutical  legislation  made  more  effective,  and 
public  service  improved. 
2  Warren  L.  Bradt,  Secretary  of  the  New  York  State  Board  of  Pharm- 
acy, writes  me  as  follows  :  "Replying  to  your  letter  of  May  25,  I  am  advis- 
ing you  that  no  action  has  been  taken  by  this  Board  recommending  to  the 
Board  of  Regents  reciprocity  of  licenses  with  any  other  State  Board." — » 
J.  W.  E. 
