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Editorial. 
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final  adjournment.  The  Council  will  have  to  hold  a  session  on  the  evening 
preceding  Thursday  for  the  purpose  of  arranging  the  business  that  is  to  come 
before  the  Association. 
The  place  of  meeting  is  accessible  from  all  parts  of  the  country,  tickets  at 
summer  excursion  rates  being  sold  by  most  railroad  companies,  good  until 
October  next.  Arrangements  have  been  made  by  the  Committee  for  an  excur- 
sion from  Boston  to  the  White  Mountains,  visiting,  besides  the  Franconia 
Notch  where  the  Profile  House  is  situated,  also  Mount  Washington,  Crawford 
Notch  and  other  places  of  interest,  the  fare  for  the  round  trip  back  to  Boston 
being  $12.54  I  tickets  to  be  secured  through  the  Local  Secretary,  Mr.  H.  M. 
Whitney,  Lawrence,  Mass.  To  enable  the  members  to  join  this  excursion,  the 
usual  convention  rates  have  been  secured  by  the  Committee  on  transportation 
from  the  different  parts  of  the  country  to  Boston  and  return  ;  full  fare  to  be 
paid  to  Boston,  the  party  obtaining  at  the  same  time  from  the  ticket  agent 
a  convention  certificate,  which  is  to  be  signed  by  the  Committee,  when  a  return 
ticket  may  be  purchased  at  Boston  at  one-third  fare.  As  a  further  inducement 
to  members  to  join  that  excursion  party,  the  druggists  and  pharmacists  of 
Boston  and  vicinity  have  made  preparations  for  extending  courtesies  to  visitors 
arriving  at  Boston  several  days  previous  to  the  meeting.  The  Hotel  Vendome 
has  been  designated  as  the  headquarters  in  Boston  ;  the  rate  will  be  $4  per  day, 
and  accommodations  there  or  at  any  other  hotel  will  be  secured  by  addressing 
the  Local  Secretary.  The'  excursion  will  leave  Boston  on  Wednesday,  July 
13,  at  8.30  A.  M.,  cross  Lake  Winnipisaukee,  pass  through  the  Pemi- 
gewasset  Valley,  and  reach  the  Profile  House  early  in  the  evening,  where  a 
special  rate  of  $3  per  day  has  been  secured. 
The  meeting  promises  to  be  well  attended  from  the  different  sections  of 
North  America  ;  and  since  the  invitation,  extended  by  the  Association,  for  hold- 
ing the  Seventh  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress  next  year  in  Chicago 
has  been  well  received  abroad,  it  will  be  of  considerable  importance  that  at 
the  forthcoming  meeting  proper  steps  be  taken  towards  making  the  contem- 
plated international  meeting  as  successful  as  possible. 
Amendment  to  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmacy  Law. — It  is  well  known  that 
through  the  influence  of  some  members  of  a  former  legislature,  wTho  were 
graduates  in  medicine,  the  Pennsylvania  pharmacy  law  was  burdened  with  a 
section  known  as  section  11,  permitting — if  not  directing— the  registration  of 
medical  practitioners  as  apothecaries  ;  and  that  an  effort  made  to  have  this 
section  repealed,  failed  to  receive  the  legislative  approval  through  similar 
influences.  During  the  past  month  when  the  Medical  Society  of  the  State  of 
Pennsylvania  held  its  annual  meeting  at  Harrisburg,  Dr.  Roebuck,  of  Lititz, 
presented  resolutions,  expressing  the  sense  of  the  Medical  Society  in  favor  of 
the  repeal  of  the  above  clause,  as  follows  : 
Whereas,  It  is  the  desire  of  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association 
to  offer  ah  amendment  repealing  section  11  of  the  pharmacy  law,  which  per- 
mits physicians  to  carry  on  the  retail  drug  business  without  examination  in 
practical  pharmacy  ;  therefore,  be  it 
Resolved,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  the  Medical  Society  of  the  State  of  Pennsyl- 
vania that  no  physician  should  be  permitted  to  carry  on  the  retail  drug  busi- 
ness without  proper  qualifications,  as  determined  by  an  examination  in  practical 
pharmacy. 
