5oo 
Editorial. 
Am.  Tour.  Pharm 
Sept.,  1892. 
Professor  Caspari,  of  Baltimore,  read  a  paper  on  the  assay  of  alkaloidal  drugs 
and  galenical  preparations,  and  illustrated  the  processes  by  experiments.  He 
was  elected  an  honorary  member.  The  officers  for  the  present  year  are  :  H.  R. 
Chears,  Plymouth,  president  ;  A.  J.  Cook,  F^etteville,  treasurer  ;  F.  W. 
Hancock,  Oxford,  secretary ;  and  F.  A.  Bobbitt,  Winston,  local  secretary. 
Next  year  the  Association  will  meet  at  Winston,  August  16. 
The  Wisconsin  Pharmaceutical  Association  was  convened  August  8,  at  Osh- 
kosh,  in  the  thirteenth  annual  meeting,  and  finally  adjourned  to  meet  in 
August  next  year  at  Fond  du  Lac,  Jas.  T.  Dana  being  the  local  secretary. 
Henry  Rollman,  Chilton,  was  elected  president  ;  W.  P.  Clark,  Milton,  treas- 
urer, and  B.  B.  Heimstreet,  Janesville,  secretary. 
Proceedings  of  State  Pharmaceutical  Associations  for  1892  have  been 
received  as  follows  : 
Alabama.    Eleventh  meeting.    Pp.71.    (See  July  number,  p.  382.) 
Georgia.    Seventeenth  meeting.     Pp.120.    (See  July  number,  p.  383.) 
New  York.    Fourteenth  meeting.    Pp.268.    (See  above.) 
EDITORIAL. 
The  Fluckiger  Memorial,  to  which  attention  was  called  on  p.  172  of  this 
volume,  is  now  an  accomplished  fact.  Professor  Dr.  Tschirch,  under  date  of 
July  t,  reported  the  total  amount  collected  to  be  francs  12722.09,  exclusive  of 
frcs.  7127.45,  sent  by  several  American  gentlemen  as  a  personal  present  to 
Professor  Fluckiger.  In  accordance  with  the  plan  originally  published,  an 
address  was  presented  to  him,  July  9,  bearing  the  signatures  of  all  the  con- 
tributors, viz  :  27  societies  and  702  individuals.  A  medal  struck  in  gold,  silver 
and  bronze,  bears  on  one  side  the  relief  portrait  of  Professor  Fluckiger,  and 
the  reverse  side  the  inscription  :  Scientia  non  unius  populi  sed  orbis  terra- 
rum.  For  307  photographs  sent  an  album  was  specially  made  and  artistically 
embellished ;  and  a  supplementary  album  was  procured  for  the  photographs 
subsequently  received.  After  deducting  the  expenses  for  the  above  there 
remained  the  sum  of  francs  10,000,  available  for  a  foundation,  and  provisionally 
deposited  in  a  bank  in  Bern,  Switzerland,  the  present  place  of  residence  of 
Prof.  Fluckiger. 
Professor  Edward  Schaer,  for  a  number  of  years  Professor  of  Pharmacy,  and 
director  of  the  pharmaceutical  department  of  the  Polytechnikum  at  Zurich, 
we  learn  from  German  journals,  has  been  appointed  Fliickiger's  successor  at 
the  University  of  Strassburg. 
Professor  Emit  Fischer,  of  the  University  of  Wiirzburg,  has  been  called  to 
the  University  of  Berlin  as  the  successor  of  A.  W.  Hofmann,  deceased  in  May 
last ;  and  the  vacancy  made  .at  the  former  institution  was  filled  by  calling  Pro- 
fessor Th.  Curtius,  of  the  University  of  Kiel,  to  the  chair  of  chemistry. 
The  Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board  of  Pennsylvania,  at  its  meeting  in 
Williamsport,  July  12,  examined  47  candidates  for  registered  pharmacists  and 
27  for  qualified  assistants.  Twenty  of  the  former  and  fourteen  of  the  latter 
were  successful. 
