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Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
April,  1901. 
successful  direction.  The  excellent  work  that  has  been  done  during 
the  last  five  years  in  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  has 
been  crystallized  out  largely  under  the  direction  of  Prof.  J.  H, 
Beal,  Scio,  O.  Beginning  with  his  paper  (Proc,  1896,  p.  319)  on 
"  A  Comparative  Exhibit  of  Pharmacy  Laws  in  the  United  States," 
and  extending  to  his  "  Draft  of  a  Model  Pharmacy  Law  "  (Proc, 
1900,  p.  284),  Professor  Beal  has  shown  a  remajkable  grasp  of  the 
situation  and  has  come  as  one  whose  influence  is  universally  conceded 
to  be  beneficent  to  the  cause  of  pharmacy  legislation.  Professor 
Beal  has  had  an  experience  as  a  retail  pharmacist,  a  training  in 
law,  a  familiarity  with  the  different  methods  of  education,  and  a 
wide  personal  experience  in  securing  legislative  enactments,  all  of 
which  qualify  him  to  do  just  such  work  as  is  needed  at  this  time  to 
benefit  the  public,  the  State,  the  physician  and  the  pharmacist. 
It  is  with  pleasure  that  we  announce  that  Professor  Beal  has  con- 
sented to  present  from  time  to  time,  as  may  seem  necessary,  to  our 
readers  a  critical  survey  ot  the  present  status  of  pharmaceutical  laws 
4  and  legislation.  It  is  particularly  desirable  that  the  secretaries  of 
the  various  State  Boards,  the  chairmen  of  the  various  committees 
appointed  by  local,  State  or  national  associations  to  consider  new 
pharmacy  laws  or  amendments  to  old  pharmacy  laws  and  that  others 
who  can  in  any  way  contribute  in  correspondence  or  in  any  other  way? 
address  Professor  Beal  or  the  editor  of  this  Journal,  in  order  that 
nothing  of  importance  shall  fail  to  be  recorded  and  that  the  pharma- 
cists of  the  different  States  may  profit  by  the  actions  of  the  others. 
As  Professor  Beal .  said  (Proc,  1896,  p.  345)  on  another  occasion, 
4t  The  existence  in  forty  States  of  as  many  different  laws  of  the 
same  subject  will  yield  approximately  the  same  volume  of  experience 
in  one  year  that  could  be  gained  in  forty  years  with  one  legislative 
body.  Moreover,  it  enables  us  to  compare  the  merits  of  different 
enactments  working  side  by  side,  under  nearly  the  same  conditions." 
PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  sixth  of  the  series  of  pharmaceutical  meetings  of  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy  for  1900-1901  was  held  on  Tuesday, 
March  19,  1901.  Prof.  Samuel  P.  Sadtler  presided.  The  meet_ 
ing  was  one  of  the  most  successful  of  the  year  in  attendance  and  in- 
terest manifested  in  the  various  matters  presented. 
