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Charles  W.  Johnson,  and  Prof.  Wm.  B.  Day;  Members  of  the 
Council:  Prof.  Oscar  Oldberg,  Prof.  Charles  E.  Caspari  of  St. 
Louis,  and  Mr.  George  M.  Beringer. 
The  Section  on  Scientific  Papers. 
The  chairman  of  the  section,  Prof.  Charles  E.  Vanderkleed,  was 
unable  to  be  present  and  owing  to  ill  health  was  compelled  to  give 
up  the  preparation  of  an  address.  It  will  be  recalled  that  Professor 
A^anderkleed  presided  creditably  over  this  section  at  the  last  two 
meetings  of  the  association  in  the  unavoidable  absence  of  the  chair- 
men-elect, viz.,  Dr.  Reid  Hunt  in  1907  and  Prof.  Virgil  Coblentz 
in  1908.  The  sessions  of  the  section  were  presided  over  by  the 
Secretary,  Mr.  M.  I.  Wilbert.  The  reports  of  the  several  com- 
mittees were  received  and  adopted,  including  that  of  the  Committee 
on  Drug  Market.  The  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  ensu- 
ing year:  Chairman,  Mr.  M.  I.  Wilbert;  Secretary,  Prof.  A.  H. 
Clark. 
The  following  are  abstracts  of  some  of  the  papers  which  were 
presented : 
Why  Tetanus  Antitoxin  Should  Be  in  the  U.S. P. 
By  John  F.  Anderson. 
As  a  result  of  the  adoption  of  an  American  standard  for  meas- 
uring the  strength  of  diphtheria  antitoxin  by  the  U.  S.  Public  Health 
and  Marine-Hospital  Service,  the  Eighth  Decennial  Revision  of  the 
Pharmacopoeia  included  antidiphtheric  serum,  and  made  the  Ameri- 
can unit  the  Pharmacopceial  standard  of  potency. 
On  October  25,  1907,  the  same  service  as  a  result  of  work  done 
in  the  Hygienic  Laboratory  promulgated  an  American  standard  unit 
for  tetanus  antitoxin.  All  tetanus  antitoxin  manufactured  and  sold 
in  interstate  commerce  in  the  United  States  is  required  to  be  stand- 
ardized in  accordance  with  this  unit.  The  unit  may  be  denned  as 
follows : 
"  The  immunity  unit  for  measuring  the  strength  of  tetanus  anti- 
toxin shall  be  ten  times  the  least  quantity  of  antitetanic  serum  neces- 
sary to  save  the  life  of  a  350-gramme  guinea  pig  for  ninety-six 
hours  against  the  official  test  dose  of  a  standard  toxin  furnished  by 
the  Hygienic  Laboratory  of  the  Public  Health  and  Marine-Hospital 
Service.,, 
