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of  a  successor  to  Prof.  J.  M.  Maiscli.  who  has  resigned  the  permanent  sec- 
retaryship, will  be  one  of  the  most  important  acts  of  the  meeting,  and  one 
that  will  have  to  be  attended  to  promptly  and  wisely,  as  much  of  the 
usefulness  of  the  Association  depends  on  the  devotedness  of  that  official 
to  its  interests  in  the  interim.  The  financial  condition  of  the  Association 
is  another  highly  important  subject.  Without  money  it  is  certain  that 
the  present  scope  of  the  Association  cannot  be  continued.  The  demand 
from  each  member  is  not  much,  but  in  the  aggregate  it  is  sufficient  to 
carry  on  the  operations  of  the  body.  Let  that  little  then  be  promptly 
and  gracefully  paid  in  aid  of  the  objects  in  which  we  all  should  cooperate. 
Those  that  go  to  the  meetings  pay  a  much  heavier  contribution  than 
those  who  stay  ;  all  are  welcome,  yet  when  for  any  reason  a  member  can- 
not go,  let  him  cheerfully  remember  that  his  annual  contribution  is  an 
active  agent  in  pushing  onward  the  wheels  of  progress. 
Coincident  with  this  meeting  will  be  a  Congress  of  Delegates  from 
Colleges  of  Pharmacy  relative  to  pharmaceutical  education  in  the  United 
States,  and  more  especially  in  reference  to  the  attainment  of  a  uniform 
standard  of  qualification  for  graduates. 
Careless  Reporting  of  the  Pharmacopceial  Convention  by  the 
Medical  Journals. — If  anything  was  needed  to  prove  the  small  hold 
which  the  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United  States  has  on  the  medical  pro- 
fession, one  evidence  may  be  seen  in  the  manner  of  alluding  to  it  by  the 
medical  Journals.  The  Medical  Gazette,  N.York,  calls  it  the  "Ameri- 
can Pharmaceutical  Association,  and  says,  the  "sixth  decennial  conven- 
tion was  held,"  &c.  Other  journals  have  been  equally  careless,  and 
appear  to  overlook  the  fact  that,  until  the  Pharmacopoeia  becomes  tho- 
roughly authoritative  as  a  code  of  medical  recipes  and  pharmaceutical 
preparations,  equally  respected  in  practice  by  physicians  and  pharma- 
ceutists, it  is  useless  to  expect  a  cessation  of  complaints  and  disappoint- 
ments in  the  intercourse  between  physicians  and  apothecaries. 
The  Schools  of  Pharmacy. — From  what  we  have  learned  through 
regular  announcements  and  otherwise  their  will  be  six  schools  of  phar- 
macy in  operation  the  coming  season,  under  the  direction  of  Colleges  of 
Pharmacy,  besides  several  that  are  attached  to  other  institutions.  Com- 
petition is  having  a  good  effect,  and  a  generous  rivalry  in  the  direction  of 
a  better  system  of  instruction  will  raise  the  standard  value  of  the  diploma. 
There  is  a  serious  want  of  instruction  in  analytical  and  practical  pharma- 
ceutical chemistry  in  the  college  schools,  arising  from  a  difficulty  on  the 
part  of  those  engaged  in  pharmaceutical  pursuits  to  get  the  time  and 
means  ;  and  unless  made  obligatory,  as  a  condition  of  graduation  and 
consequently  of  apprenticeship,  there  seems  no  way  of  securing  these 
branches  a  place  in  the  curriculum.  We  have  been  informed  that  Mr* 
Henry  C.  Lea  is  about  to  publish  an  American  Edition  of  Attfield's 
