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committee  reports  and  several  papers  claimed  the  attention  of  the  meeting. 
A.  S.  Wetherell,  Exeter,  was  elected  president  ;  F.  L.  Way,  Manchester,  sec- 
retary, and  A.  D.  Smith,  Manchester,  treasurer.  The  twentieth  annual  meet- 
ing will  be  held  on  the  Isle  of  Shoals,  September  5,  1893. 
The  North  Dakota  Pharmaceutical  Association  met  in  Fargo,  August  2,  and 
discussed  mainly  matters  of  trade  interest.  A.  I.  Widlund,  Grand  Forks,  was 
chosen  president  ;  L.  Christianson,  Fargo,  Secretary,  and  G.  A.  Day,  Fargo, 
treasurer.  It  was  contemplated  to  hold  a  special  meeting  at  the  World's 
Columbian  Exposition  next  year. 
The  South  Dakota  Pharmaceutical  Association  convened  at  Sioux  Falls, 
August  17,  Vice-President  Poppe  presiding.  Higher  education  in  pharmacy  was 
discussed  by  Prof.  Shepherd  of  the  State  Agricultural  College.  R.  M.  Colton, 
Tyndall,  was  elected  president  ;  I.  A.  Keith,  Lake  Preston,  secretary,  and  G. 
W.  IyOwry,  Sioux  Falls,  treasurer.  Yankton  was  selected  for  holding  next 
year's  meeting,  August  16.    J.  M.  King,  local  secretary. 
The  Pharmaceutical  Association  of  the  Province  of  Quebec  held  its  twenty- 
second  annual  meeting  in  the  Laval  University,  Quebec,  June  14.  President 
Gray,  in  his  annual  address,  gave  a  brief  historical  sketch  of  the  Montreal 
Chemists'  Association,  organized  in  1864,  reorganized  in  1867,  and  extended  in 
1870,  when  the  present  Provincial  Association  was  incorporated  by  the  legisla- 
ture. The  pharmacy  act  of  1875  made  examinations  obligatory  for  carrying  on 
the  drug  business.  The  printed  Proceedings  of  24  pages  contain  the  address, 
the  report  of  the  Council,  and  the  minutes  of  the  meeting.  The  executive 
officers  of  the  preceding  year  were  re-elected,  viz  :  Henry  R.  Gray,  president ; 
A.  Manson,  treasurer,  and  E.  Muir,  secretary,  registrar  and  assistant  treasurer  ; 
all  residing  in  Montreal.  \ 
Printed  reports  of  meetings  of  State  Pharmaceutical  Associations  have  been 
received  as  follows  : 
Kentucky.    Fifteenth  meeting.    Pp.  116.    See  July  number,  p.  383. 
Pennsylvania.    Fifteenth  meeting.  m  Pp.  198.    See  July  number,  p.  385. 
EDITORIAL. 
New  College  Building. — In  the  May  number,  p.  281,  we  have  given  a 
brief  account  of  the  new  building,  and  the  alterations  in  the  older  buildings 
that  had  been  contemplated  for  the  past  summer.  On  Monday,  October  3,  the 
lectures  will  begin,  and  we  are  much  pleased  to  inform  our  readers  that,  at  this 
writing,  the  lecture  rooms  and  laboratories  are  practically  ready  for  occupancy, 
and  that  both  the  didactic  and  laboratory  instructions  will  not  in  the  least  be 
interfered  with.  As  might  be  expected  where  such  extensive  building  opera- 
tions had  to  be  completed  in  the  course  of  a  few  months,  some  of  the  details, 
as  for  instance  the  arrangement  of  the  collections,  have  not  yet  reached  that 
state  of  perfection,  which  they  had  attained  during  an  undisturbed  occupancy 
of  the  quarters  for  eleven,  and  in  some  cases  for  over  twenty  years.  But  these 
are  inconveniences  which  do  not  affect  the  students,  whose  needs  and  comforts 
have  been  amply  provided  for  in  every  direction. 
