256  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.     { Am"  May"'i9oh9arm' 
the  committee  was  co-operating  with  the  Committee  on  Legislation 
of  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association  and  had  intro- 
duced into  the  State  Legislature  two  bills, — first,  a  bill  still  further 
to  regulate  and  restrict  the  sale  of  cocaine,  amending  the  law  of 
1903  so  that  a  strict  account  of  all  transactions  by  wholesalers 
should  be  made,  and  a  quarterly  report  made  to  the  State  Pharma- 
ceutical Board,  also  imposing  a  penalty  upon  all  who  had  cocaine 
or  any  of  its  preparations  in  their  possession  unless  procured  upon 
the  prescription  of  a  physician,  dentist,  or  veterinarian.  Also,  a  bill 
regulating  the  sale  of  drugs  and  medicines,  conforming  largely  to 
the  provisions  of  the  Federal  Act  except  that  U.S. P.  and  N.F.  prepa- 
rations do  not  require  statements  on  the  label  as  to  contents  of 
alcohol  and  narcotics  provided  for  in  the  Federal  Law,  and  also 
provided  that  the  official  preparations  of  opium,  iodine,  peppermint, 
camphor,  ginger,  and  ethyl  nitrite  shall  not  be  permitted  to  be 
sold  of  any  different  standard,  or  strength,  quality,  or  purity  than 
that  given  in  the  U.  S.  P.  This  bill  has  passed  the  House,  and  is 
now  in  the  Senate.  Both  of  these  bills  have  been  held  back  because 
of  the  disposition  not  to  grant  an  appropriation  to  the  Pharmacy 
Board  in  order  to  carry  out  the  provision  of  the  law.  A  bill  had 
been  introduced  through  a  member  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Examining 
Board  providing  for  a  fifteen  hundred  dollar  per  annum  salary  for 
each  member  of  the  Examining  Board,  and  providing  for  a  license 
fee  of  two  dollars  per  annum  for  each  drug  store  in  the  State,  and 
providing  for  a  revocation  of  that  license  upon  conviction  of  a 
druggist  by  the  Court  of  the  violation  of  any  pharmacy  law  now  in 
existence  or  to  be  passed  in  the  future.  This  bill  is  so  sweeping 
in  its  provisions,  and  introduced  at  so  late  a  day  in  the  session,  that 
it  is  not  likely  to  be  passed,  and  some  of  its  provisions  will  cer- 
tainly be  strongly  objected  to  by  druggists  of  this  State  when  it 
becomes  known. 
Donations  were  received  from  the  following:  Paul  B. 
Anspach,  of  Easton,  Pa.,  gave  twenty-eight  bound  volumes  of  the 
American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  and  twenty-two  volumes  of 
the  Proceedings  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association; 
J.  C.  De  LaCour,  of  Camden,  N.  J.,  gave  sixty  volumes  consisting 
mainly  of  books  on  chemical  and  pharmaceutical  subjects;  William 
M.  Morrison,  of  Roxborough,  gave  a  copy  of  an  old  English  work 
published  in  London  in  1693,  called  Salmon's  English  Physician  or 
the  Druggist's  Open  Shop,  a  copy  of  Parrish's  Practical  Pharmacy 
