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the  excellent  work  being  done  by  Mr.  Beadle,  director  of  the  Bilt- 
more  Herbarium  and  his  associates,  is  being  published  and  thus 
conserved  and  it  is  hoped  that  other  numbers  will  quickly  follow. 
ILLINOIS  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION.1 
The  twenty-second  annual  meeting  was  held  at  Rock  Island, 
June  1 1  — 1 3.    The  President,  Walter  H.  Gale,  in  his  address 
approved  of  the  action  of  the  Association  two  years  ago,  when  it  decided  to 
discontinue  committees  on  scientific  papers  and  other  similar  subjects,  leaving 
to  the  A. Ph. A.  scientific  and  educational  matters.  He  felt  that  the  I. Ph.  A. 
should  busy  itself  with  trade  and  legislative  matters. 
In  regard  to  the  Illinois  pharmacy  law,  he  stated  that  the  new  law  is  much 
more  satisfactory  than  the  old  one.  President  Gale  also  called  attention  to 
the  pure  food  law  now  in  force,  and  said  that  it  contained  but  little  of  interest 
to  pharmacists.  The  report  of  the  operation  of  the  law  for  twelve  months 
shows  that  the  only  line  of  goods  covered  by  the  law  in  which  pharmacists  are 
interested  (spices  and  flavoring  extracts)  generally  come  up  to  the  required 
standard,  the  only  exceptions  being  in  some  goods  found  in  grocery  stores. 
The  president  also  called  attention  to  the  Illinois  law  covering  the  sale  of 
cocaine  and  other  similar  narcotics.  He  said  that  300  ounces  of  cocaine  per 
month  are  sold  on  State  Street  within  quite  a  limited  district.  He  felt  the 
present  law  was  sufficient  to  meet  the  case  if  it  can  only  be  enforced. 
The  committee  in  reporting  on  this  address,  recommended  that 
the  Association  issue  a  volume  similar  to  the  Badger  Pharmacist  of 
Wisconsin,  and  include  the  history  now  being  prepared  by  A.  E. 
Ebert,  historian  of  the  Chicago  Veteran  Pharmacists'  Society. 
Trade  interests  was  the  subject  of  separate  papers  by  W.  F. 
Bodeman  and  John  Stucklich. 
Mr.  Bodeman  said  that  he  had  been  in  this  country  thirty-four 
years  and  during  all  that  time  druggists  cried  hard  times  and  com- 
pared trade  with  the  good  old  times  of  early  days.  He  urged  phar- 
macists to  write  for  journals  and  become  better  readers  of  pharma- 
ceutical periodicals.  He  insisted  upon  hiring  good  apprentices 
and  giving  them  the  proper  training,  stating  that  the  metric  system 
should  not  be  overlooked,  and  laid  stress  upon  the  importance  of 
arithmetic.  His  parting  advice  was,  let  the  druggists  of  this  land 
get  together  and  broaden  their  minds.  Mr.  Stucklich  advocated 
judicious  advertising  by  show  windows,  neat  circulars,  booklets, 
samples,  newspapers,  etc.    Cash  trade  was  approved  ;  personal  con- 
1  Meyer  Bros.  Druggist,  p.  206  ;  Nat.  Drug.,  p.  232  ;  West.  Drug.,  p.  324. 
