abstracts the elements of water and leaves carbon." The book can be heartily commended to beginners in pharmacy. By A TREATISE ON PHARMACY FOR STUDENTS AND PHARMACISTS. A large part of the text of Caspari's Pharmacy has been rewritten to bring the book in accord with the new Pharmacopoeia and the advance of scientific pharmacy in general. The plan of the work is the same as has characterized preceding editions, and while the book has been considerably enlarged by Professor added matter, it yet remains of convenient size. Caspari has been eminently successful in his efforts to answer the many questions of why and wherefore with which students and practicing pharmacists are almost daily confronted, and this faculty of making difficult subjects plain and understandable to the student is seen at its best in the chapter on the Assay of Alkaloidal Drugs and in that on Mixtures, pages 325339, which latter gives the student in concise form an admirable review of the different forms of incompatibility of medicinal substances. We confess to a fondness for Caspari's work which has grown with the successive issues. There is no superfluous matter in it, and the student who pursues his studies along the lines laid down by the author will acquire a solid foundation for the prosecution of more advanced work. POTTER'S CYCLOPAEDIA OF BOTANICAL DRUGS AND PREPARATIONS. R. C. Wren. London: Potter & Clarke, 1906. Pp. iv-208. 2s. 6d.) By (Price, This book is at once a book of plant synonyms, a guide to the therapeutic action of botanical drugs and a complete herbalist. The drugs are described under their common names, the botanical title being printed alongside. The order is to give the synonyms, part used, therapeutic action and preparations employed. In addition to this, a brief formulary of medical compounds favored by herbalists is given. In this section is found what we must suppose to be the original formula for "Thompson's No. 6; or, Rheumatic Drops." It calls for African pepper, 1 oz.; myrrh (powdered), 1 lb.; brandy (fourth proof), 1 gal. The directions for preparing the drops are: "Put these into a stone jug and boil it for half an hour in a kettle of water, the jug to be uncorked." The volume closes with a selection of formulas for household remedies, a therapeutical index and an index of medical, botanical and eclectic works. It is doubtful if a work of this kind would be popular among pharmacists in this country, except such as cultivate a herbal practice. A SYSTEMATIC COURSE OF QUALITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF INORGANIC AND ORGANIC SUBSTANCES, WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES. By Henry W. Schimpf, Ph.G., M.D., Professor of Analytical Chemistry in the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1906. Pp. vii-156. (Price, $1.25.) In the preface of this book the author states that it has been prepared for students in pharmacy, and that it is based mainly on the lectures on analytical chemistry and on the "hectographed notes" on the laboratory exercises which have been delivered to the students of the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy during the past few years. This statement fully explains the limitations of the work. It doubtless will serve the author's purpose in connection with his teaching work, but we cannot conceive of the book being generally useful to teachers of chemistry or to students in institutions where chemistry is taught as a science and not as a branch of practical pharmacy. ELEMENTS OF VEGETABLE HISTOLOGY. For the Use of Students of Pharmacy, Preparatory to the Study of Pharmacognosy. With 62 illustrations. By Daniel Base, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry and Vegetable Histology in the Maryland College of Pharmacy. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Baltimore: The author, 1905. Pp. 112. This little book is another of that class of works published by teachers primarily for the use of their own classes, but, unlike many of its type, is a really excellent compilation because the author has taken pains to treat his subject in a scientific manner. Commencing with a few general physical principles and a description of the action of a compound microscope the author takes the student by graduated steps from the simplest type of vegetable cell, as found, for instance, in the yeasts and bacteria, up to the more highly differentiated structures of the flowering plants, carefully instructing the reader how to pre pare his specimens and examine them under the microscope with the aid of the usual microscopical reagents and stains. In the selection of his specimens the author has shown a wise discretion, and has avoided the use of too many technical terms and hair-splitting distinctions, treating the subject in a broad but yet strictly scientific manner. We commend the book to the study of those teachers who may be inclined to the production of textbooks for a similar purpose. The present volume is the second edition, the first having been published by the author in 1897. It deserves a wide recognition among teachers of pharmacognosy. METHODS OF ORGANIC ANALYSIS. By Henry C. Sherman, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Analytical Chemistry in Columbia University. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. Pp. 245. (Price, $1.75.) The greater portion of this work is devoted to qualitative methods for food materials and similar substances; processes for the determination of alcohols, carbohydrates, fatty acids. oils and fats, soaps and lubricants, proteids and cereals and milk being given at length. The book is well and concisely written, and is increased in volume by numerous references to other textbooks and to recent literature in the various publications dealing with organic analysis. As a work of reference and as a guide to analysts in carrying out special processes the work will prove of undoubted value, but we should hesitate to recommend it as a textbook for the students who purpose to take up analytical chemistry as a means of livelihood, for the reason that the author does not appear to be any too familiar with what we may term the commercial side of organic analysis. In other words, he appears to us to treat his subject too much from the point of view of the pure chemist, and, in his description of processes for determining the purity or otherwise of commercial natural products not to devote sufficient attention to the limitations of these processes when applied to such products. Familiarity with the commercial side is to our mind one of the requisites of the analytical chemist. Manufacturers and dealers have suffered too long from the ipse dixit of analysts whose commercial knowledge was not commensurate with their technical training. We do not wish to be construed as condemning this work, for the author's position and published papers are sufficient guarantee of the sufficiency of his knowledge as a chemist. As a work of reference, particularly for recent improvements in methods of organic analysis, we consider it excellent. The book is well printed and strongly bound in cloth. A MANUAL OF PHARMACOLOGY. By Walter E. Dixon, M.A., Cantab., M.D., B.S., B.Sc. Lond., D.P.H. Camb., etc., assistant to the Downing Professor of Medicine in the University of Cambridge, Examiner in Pharmacology in the Universities of Cambridge and Glasgow. London Edward Arnold, 1906. Pp. vii-451. (Price, $4.) It may be said without any fear of contradiction that this work is not one for the student of pharmacy. This is not because of any deficiencies that it may possess, but by reason of its chief interests lying in a field that is not so extensively cultivated by our students of pharmacy. The pharmacology that Dr. Dixon presents is an experimental pharmacology, rich in the details of recorded facts of animal experimentation-classified in the typical pharmacological method of Schmiedeberg-and adapted to the needs of second or third year medical students, working in a laboratory. For this latter class of students it is to be highly recommended, although be it said throughout that it regards the science from its own point of view rather than that of its applicability in the treatment of disease. The Manual should be particularly helpful and informing to the pharmacist who would know the most plausible detailed technical action of a drug, particularly of a special drug's effect on the heart's action. In FORMULAIRE DES MEDICAMENTS NOUVEAUX POUR 1906, par H. Bocquillon-Limousin, docteur en pharmacie de l'Université de Paris. troduction par le Dr. Huchard, médecin des hôpitaux. 1 vol. in 18 de 322 pages, cartonné. Paris: Librairie J.-B. Baillière et Fils, 19 rue Hautefeuille. Price, 3 francs.) This valuable compendium of new remedies has been brought well up to date by the inclusion of descriptions of the numerous medicaments introduced during 1905. A distinguishing feature of Bocquillon-Limousin's formulary is the exact information which it supplies regarding the therapeutic action of the remedies enumerated. SAN FRANCISCO DESTROYED. Every Wholesale Drug House Wiped Out-Large Quantities of Crude Drugs Destroyed-'Frisco Offices of Eastern Firms Burned-Cascara, Grindelia and Damiana Likely to Advance on Account of Destruction of Stock. With the arrival in this city of more definite reports concerning the devastation and damage worked by the terrific earthquake and fire in the city of San Francisco, many of the leading manufacturing and wholesale drug houses in New York are learning of the total destruction of their warehouses, home and branch offices in that fated city on the Pacific Coast. Seven large drug concerns in this city have already received private despatches from their officers and managers in 'Frisco, announcing that their properties have been utterly ruined, and other large establishments are expecting similar news within the next few days. Practically the entire wholesale drug district in the metropolis has been wiped out, but the full extent of the damage will not be realized for several days. The seismic disturbance alone hurled down almost all of the drug house buildings on Market and Mission streets, while those on Third, Montgomery, Second, First and Freemont streets which escaped the earthquake were destroyed by the flames. Redington & Co.'s warehouse and store and offices at 25 Second street are known to have been completely destroyed. This concern has local offices at 30 Cliff street, where the firm is known as Coffin, Redington & Co., wholesale druggists and agents for the California Fig Syrup Company and its product "Syrup of Figs." The Pacific Coast Borax Company's warehouse and offices, at 101 Sansome street, and its factory at Alameda, have been obliterated, according to a private wire received at the local offices of that company at 100 William street. The despatch received at the local offices was sent by C. B. Zabriskie, the eastern manager, who happened to be in the doomed city when the calamity occurred. Mr. Zabriskie in his message, which he sent from Oakland, across the bay from Frisco, announced that President F. M. Smith and all the officers and employees of the company had escaped unharmed from the city with their families. The Celluloid Company, of 30 Washington place, this city, has received word that its stores and offices in 'Frisco are totally destroyed. Johnson & Johnson has been notified that their warehouse and offices are also in ruins. Seabury & Johnson has also received similar intelligence concerning their stock depot, salesrooms and offices, at 513 Market street, between First and Second streets. Mack & Co.'s properties have also been reduced to a mass of charred ruins, and although Langley, Michaels & Co., have not been heard from directly by their local agents, Samuel G. McCotter & Co., at 16 Platt street, this city, reports on the general destruction of property include the 'Frisco offices of that concern as among those wholly or in part consumed in the conflagration. While it is understood that the loss of the properties of the Pacific Coast Borax Company will not affect in any way the cost of this merchandise there is no doubt that the destruction of the warehouses containing large stocks of cascara, grindelia robusta and damiana will cause a decided upward movement in the prices of these drugs, as it will be 30 to 60 days before the merchants engaged in this business can hope to resume shipments and re-establish communication with their eastern agents. Registered in Florida. At the semiannual meeting of the Florida Board of Pharmacy, held in Ocala, Fla., on January 17, 13 applicants were present for examination. The following were successful: H. H. Bearce, Ormond; G. B. Young, St. Augustine; W. Y. Hunter, Madison; J. C. Moore, Welborne, and H. P. Bitting, Ocala. The next meeting of the board will be in Orlando, June 13, during the meeting of the Florida State Pharmaceutical Association. THE PURE FOOD AND DRUG BILL. Bill Satisfactory to Drug Interests if Proposed Amendment Is Adopted. The National Wholesale Druggists' Association is taking special interest in the pure food and drug bill that is now before the House of Representatives at Washington. M. N. Kline, chairman of the Committee on Legislation, is keeping a careful watch on all matters pertaining to pure food and drugs, and recently he sent the following letter to the members of the National Wholesale Drug Association: Following my circular letter of recent date asking your influence to secure some modification in the Pure Food and Drug bill now pending in the House of Representatives, S. 88, I am informed that the inclosed amendment is to be inserted by the committee having it in charge when it comes up for consideration in the House. This amendment meets all the objections we can reasonably urge against the misbranding portion of this bill, and I hope now that you will address your member of Congress upon the subject expressing your approval of the proposed amendment and expressing the hope that the Pure Food bill will now be passed, provided this amendment is made a part of it, because this protects our interests as far as we can reasonably hope that any bill that may be considered will protect them, and it will be a decided advantage to get this national legislation enacted so as to secure a settlement of this question, which has been before us for about fifteen years in various forms, some of which threatened great annoyance to the wholesale and retail drug interests of this country. I sincerely hope, therefore, that for the above reasons you will use your influence to secure the insertion of this amendment, and the passage of the bill when it has been made a part of it. The following is the proposed amendment to the Pure Food bill: Second. If the contents of the original package shall have been removed, in whole or in part, and other contents shall have been placed in such package; or if when the article contained be not described in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary and be not the prescription of a regularly licensed physician, in the District of Columbia and the Territories, the package fails to bear a statement on the label of the quantity or proportion of any alcohol, morphine, opium, cocaine, heroin, alpha or beta eucaine, or chloral hydrate, or any preparation of any of such substances contained therein; provided, that the quantity or proportion of alcohol need not be stated when not more than the quantity or proportion prescribed by the United States Pharmacopoeia or the National Formulary as a solvent or preservative of the active constituents of the medicine or preparation in such package is used. And further provided, that the quantity or proportion of opium or morphine need not be stated unless the proportion in such package contain more than 2 grains of opium of 4 grain of morphine to a fluid ounce, or if a solid preparation to an avoidupois ounce. ANTI-COCAINE LAW FOR MARYLAND. Baltimore, April 19.-Of all the various measures designed to regulate the practice of pharmacy or to abolish abuses in the business, offered at the last meeting of the Maryland General Assembly, only one became a law, this being the bill introduced by Delegate Blank, of the city delegation, and named after him. This bill aims to stop the promiscuous sale of cocaine, the vending of which drug as well as opium it prohibits outright, while the sale of other habit-forming substances is surrounded with restrictions. They cannot be dispensed except on the prescription of a regular practicing physician, and prescriptions cannot be renewed except on the written order of the physician. The bill was based on the Beal model, and had the indorsement of the druggists throughout the State. The radical Godwin bill, which provided that manufacturers of proprietary medicines must print the formulas on the label or wrapper, and the measure drawn by Attorney General Bryan, regulating the sale of poisons and narcotics, failed because of their drastic provisions, which made them objectionable to many pharmacists. The former would have virtually destroyed all property values in medicinal compounds. THE PATENT MEDICINE AGITATION IN CANADA. Thirty Samples of Headache Powders Examined-Fifteen Patent Medicines Analyzed by the Canadian Government-A Formula Bill to Be Introduced. (From our Regular Correspondent.) Toronto, April 19.-The question of regulating the sale of patent and proprietary medicines is receiving much attention at present. The Canadian Department of Inland Revenue has just isued a bulletin containing the report of Thomas Macfarlane, Chief Government Analyst, and giving analyses of 30 samples of headache powders and similar preparations and 15 patent medicines. The report commented on the large percentage of alcohol found in some of the proprietary medicines, and in this connection referred to the order issued by the Revenue Department of the United States requiring dealers in certain specified remedies to pay a revenue tax as liquor dealers. The report also called attention to the large proportion of acetanilide in some of the headache powders as likely to be injurious to those using them. Another drastic measure for the regulation of the sale of patent medicines has been presented in the Ontario Legislature by A. C. Pratt. It provides that where any patent medicine shall contain more than 6 per cent. of alcohol or more than 1-20 of 1 per cent. of morphine heroin, cocaine or of the salts or equivalents or derivatives of the same the package or bottle shall be labeled with the ingredients and their percentages in red ink. Where poisons are ingredients the word "poison" must be printed upon the label in red ink letters 4 inch deep. Every firm manufacturing patent medicines is required to file samples with the Provincial Board of Health before November 1, 1906, with affidavits that the article offered for sale is the same as the sample. Other proprietary preparations must be filed with the board before February 1. The Board of Health is authorized to make periodical analyses of samples and goods offered for sale. Firms violating these provisions may be fined $50 for the first and $100 for the second offense. The filing of false samples or making false affidavits entails a penalty of $1,000. A schedule to the bill contains a long list of drugs considered dangerous, the presence of which in the proportion indicated will make it necessary to label the package or the bottle with the ingredients. There appears to be some uncertainty as to whether legislation dealing with this subject falls constitutionally within the scope of the Federal or the Provincial Government. As it is clearly within the jurisdiction of the Province to deal with the sale of liquor, it is contended that the regulation of all medicines containing alcohol falls within the scope of the Provincial Government. Registered in South Dakota. As a result of the examination of the State Board of Pharmacy at its recent meeting in Canton the following candidates were registered: As Licentiates.-O. C. Koelle, Sioux City; G. C. McCullen, Canton; T. D. Kriebs. Beresford; G. J. Brushler, Beresford; Mrs. Bena Mitchell, Artesian; J. W. Brackett, Sturgis; F. L. Mitchell, Artesian; H. D. Jehu, Geddes; T. W. Lalley, Montrose; W. L. Sackett, Corsica; G. Tillman Thompson, Dell Rapids; J. B. Dickey, Iroquois. Assistants.-C. A. Hubbard, Des Moines; Hubert Faust, Parkston; Clyde Kellar, Viborg; Adolph Barke, Wagner. The next meeting of the board will be held at Aberdeen, in April. E. C. Bent, of Dell Rapids, the secretary of the board, will furnish blanks for intending applicants. The Prescott Memorial Scholarship. The committee of the Michigan Pharmaceutical Association appointed to secure funds for the establishment of a scholarship in memoriam of Dr. A. B. Prescott has issued an appeal for subscriptions and would be pleased to receive any amount from $5 upward. The members of the committee are Charles F. Mann, Frederick W. R. Perry and Arthur F. Parker. BOSTON DRUGGISTS MEET. Sale of Alcoholic Tonics Discussed-Organizers Report-Mineral Water on Serial Numbering Plan. (From our Regular Correspondent.) Boston, April 19.-The Boston Association of Retail Druggists held its regular monthly meeting at the Massachusett College of Pharmacy building on the evening of April 11, with Professor La Pierre in the chair. The secretary and treasurer submitted the usual reports, which were accepted. The by-laws having been modified to conform to the new charter were next presented by Mr. Ernst, for the Committee on ByLaws. This matter will be again considered at the next meeting. THE SALE OF ALCOHOLIC TONICS FROM A LICENSE STANDPOINT. In response to the query submitted by the association: Can (old) Peruna and Hostetters' Bitters be sold by druggists in this State without a sixth class license? Counsel for the organization gave an opinion, holding that the presence of alcohol did not determine the question, but that the inquiry must be as to whether it was sold and used as a beverage. D. C. S. N. PLAN COMMENDED. Letters were then read from manufacturers to whom had been sent the association's resolution favoring the sale of all articles on the $2, $4 and $8 basis; also one from the E. C. Dewitt Company, Chicago, commending the Direct Contract and Serial Numbering plan. LEGISLATION FOR THE DRUGGISTS. Henry Canning gave an account of pending legislation, speaking upon the following bills: That providing for the sale of liquor in no-license towns upon physicians' prescriptions; a general bili which will provide screens for open bars only; a formula bill which is fairly satisfactory so far as druggists are concerned, as long as some bill must be offered. He mentioned the "reformers'" absurdity of having omitted from their bills the complete suppression of the sale of cocaine preparations except on physicians' prescriptions, and said it was the "wicked" pharmacists who were attempting amendments by the insertion of this provision, notwithstanding that it woul entail monetary loss on Bay State dealers. MINERAL WATER ON THE D. C. AND S. N. PLAN. Mr. Parks, of Philadelphia, representing the Consolidated Mineral Water Company, explained the firm's serial numbering contract. He was told that the B. A. R. D. did not indorse or accept contracts unless they were approved by the Chicago office. It was voted to have a smoke-talk for the May meeting. ORGANIZERS REPORT ON LOCAL CONDITIONS. Before the gathering adjourned Mr. Burroughs, the new N. A. R. D.'s organizer outside of Boston, was introduced, and spoke briefly. Mr. Keiser, representing the Chicago headquarters, has opened an office for New England at 35 Court street, Room 11, Boston. His latchstring is always out for N. A. R. D.'s mem bers. The Tampa Drug Company. E. Berger, who has been in the drug and merchandise brokerage business in Tampa, Fla., for the last ten years, and who prior to that time was in the retail business there, is secretary and manager of the recently organized Tampa Drug Company, which has been incorporated with a capital of $100,000. This company proposes to do a strictly wholesale drug business and has no retail connections whatever, being the only wholesale drug house in that section of the State, and they have every prospect of doing a large and very flourishing business. Mr. Berger is very well and widely known, having attended several meetings of the American Pharmaceutical Association and having been active in association work in Florida for some years. He has all the qualities, both of head and heart, that go to make success. NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATION. Many Amendments of the Stevens-Wainwright Bill-Spirited Opposition from the Entire Drug Trade-Hill Bill to Be Pushed by Drug Trade-Other Measures in Suspense. Led by the energetic members of the Legislative Committee of the New York State Pharmaceutical Association the representatives of the Manhattan Pharmaceutical Association, Kings County Pharmaceutical Society, Metropolitan Association of Retail Druggists and German Apothecaries' Society are making strenuous and unceasing efforts to kill the Wainwright bill which in its amended form is now before the State Assembly and likely to be passed unless this determined opposition of drug interests proves successful. The Senate Committee on Public Health has favorably reported the Stevens bill, as the measure is called in the Senate, and the bill is now in shape to be passed by that body. In its amended form the Stevens-Wainwright bill, as the two measures are familiarly called, provides that the State Department of Health and not the local departments of health, as originally specified, shall appoint public analysts, chemists and inspectors for the execution of the proposed law, and shall make regulations in addition to the provisions already outlined in the bill, as may seem necessary to enforce or facilitate the enforcement of the proposed law, and shall also have authority to add to the list of drugs whenever it shall deem such action necessary for public health. All such regulations, declarations and additions to the drug list made in any year shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State and published in the session laws, first published after the expiration of thirty days from such filing, and also that all additions to the drug list shall take effect sixty days after the publication of the same in the session laws. Still another amendment to the bill eliminates from the list of proprietary and other medicinal preparations containing alcohol or narcotic or other potent drugs which must be labeled, "any other hypnotic, anæsthetic, analgesic or cardiac, circulatory, respiratory or nerve depressant "; but as the State Department of Health is empowered in the amended bill to make regulations in addition to the regular provisions and extend the number of drugs which are to be labeled, this amendment does not relieve the proprietary manufacturer or druggist of any responsibility. The measure also contains a further amendment whereby the stock on hand of any retail druggist or dealer on July 1 of this year is exempted from the provisions of the labeling measure, which, even if passed, will not become effective until October 1. In the hope that retail druggists, whether associated with any pharmaceutical organization or not, will do their utmost to defeat the bill, the Legislative Committee of the State Pharmaceutical Association has sent out a general appeal to every regularly licensed pharmacist in Greater New York urging them to address strong personal letters or telegrams to the Senators and Assemblymen in their respective districts protesting against the measure as destructive of the drug business and pharmacy in general. In part this general appeal for assistance in the fight against the bill reads as follows: The bill confers extraordinary powers upon the State Board of Health, and it is not easy to grasp its main purpose unless it be regarded as a first step toward the overthrow of the whole system of pharmacy legislation in this State and as evidencing a determination to subject the profession of pharmacy and the entire drug trade to the arbitrary rule of such physicians as may hereafter be fortunate enough to secure positions in the Department of Health. No other State has ever subjected the profession of pharmacy to such unmerited and uncalled for humiliation as this bill contemplates for the State of New York. The present law puts the sale of drugs and poisons at retail under the direct supervision and control of the State Board of Pharmacy. The division of authority provided by this bill would lead to constant conflict and confusion. This appeal is signed by J. A. Lockie, of Buffalo, chairman of the committee; Dr. William Muir, of Brooklyn; William H. Rogers, of Middletown; R. K. Smither, of Buffalo; Warren L. Bradt, of Albany; George Kleinau, of New York, and W. B. Bissel, of Syracuse. THE HILL BILL. So determined are the proponents of the Stevens-Wainwright bill to secure the passage of their measure that it is now feared there is little chance of persuading the State Senate to pass in its place the substitute measure known as the Hill bill, Senate bill 1,118, which would accomplish a much better result in protecting the public health. The Hill bill is also known as the Chicago conference bill because it was prepared at a conference held last year by representatives of the American Pharmaceutical Association, the National Wholesale Druggists' Association, the Proprietary Association of America and the National Association of Retail Druggists. This measure makes it unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell, furnish or give away any cocaine, alpha or beta eucaine, opium, morphine, heroin, chloral hydrate or any salt or compound of any of the foregoing substances, except upon the original written order or prescription of a lawfully authorized practitioner of medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine, but these provisions are not to apply to preparations containing not more than 2 grains of opium or not more than 4 grain of morphine, or not more than 14 grain of heroin, or not more than 1% grain of cocaine, or not more than grain of alpha or beta eucaine, or not more than 10 grains of chloral hydrate in 1 fluid or avoidupois ounce. A few other exceptions are also made in the cases of mild preparations. The manufacture and sale of stronger compounds are, however, wholly prohibited. The Harawitz bill, which is now before the Assembly, is identical with the Hill measure. The Sammon bill, or Assembly bill 1920, has been killed. This bill made it a misdemeanor for any person, copartnership or corporation to compound, manufacture, give, sell or expose for sale 'any preparation containing morphine, opium, cocaine or similar preparations. Dr. Muir and Messrs. Kleinau and Bradt pointed out at the hearing before the Assembly Committee on Codes, which was held on Wednesday, April 11, that the bill did not make any provision against the sale of the drugs in their crude state, but only prohibited the sale of their preparations. THE PAGE ANTISUBSTITUTION BILL AMENDED. Dr. Muir, who also attended a recent hearing on the Page, or Antisubstitution, bill before the Senate Committee on Codes, persuaded Senator Page to accept an amendment to his measure which limits the antisubstitution clause to drugs. This amendment reads: "No licensed pharmacist shall deviate from the terms of a prescription or order or demand by using one drug for another." A. Clayton Searles, chairman of the Legislative Committee of the Manhattan Pharmaceutical Association, and Mr. Kleinau also attended the hearing on the Page bill and urged the adoption of this amendment. THE HASTINGS BILL, which is now before the Senate, provides that the holder of a pharmacy license granted by any local board of pharmacy, whether after an examination or without such an examination, shall upon the payment of a fee of $5 receive a regular license from the State Board of Pharmacy without any further examination. This bill has already been passed by the Assembly. LUPTON BILL PROBABLY SCOTCHED IN SENATE. The Lupton bill, providing for the granting of permits to all classes of merchants to deal in numerous drugs not classified as household remedies, has been passed by the Assembly, but is believed to have been killed in the Senate Committee on Public Health, before which Dr. Muir and Mr. Bradt appeared on Thursday, April 12. Both of these representatives of drug interests opposed the measure vigorously on the ground that it would tend to work an injury to public health by permitting unskilled merchants to deal in remedies about which they know practically nothing. SANTEE ANTICOCAINE BILL IN SUSPENSE. Though the Santee bill for the regulation of the sale of cocaine is still before the Senate it is feared that some secret opposition has developed among cocaine interests to prevent its passage. The State Pharmaceutical Association and other retail drug associations have sent representatives to all the hear ings to assist in its passage, but though there has been no public opposition at any of these hearings it is generally believed that some influence is being brought to bear upon the Senate Committee on Public Health, which is restraining it from reporting the bill favorably. Formula Bill Favorably Reported in the Massachusetts Legislature. (From our Regular Correspondent.) Boston, April 19.-The following is the Patent Medicine bill reported by the Committee on Public Health; it has already received preliminary action in the House: Section 1. Upon every package, bottle or other receptacle, holding any proprietary or patent medicine, or any proprietary or patent food preparation, which contains alcohol to an amount in excess of the amount shown to be necessary by the United States Pharmacopoeia or the National Formulary as a solvent or preservative of the active constituents of the drugs contained therein, shall be marked or inscribed a statement of the percentage of alcohol by volume contained therein; and the provisions of section 19 of chapter 75 of the Revised Laws shall apply to the manner and form in which such statements shall be marked or inscribed. Sec. 2. Every package, bottle or other receptacle holding any proprietary or patent medicine or any proprietary or patent food preparation shall bear a label containing a statement of the quantity of any opium, morphine, heroin or chloral-hydrate contained therein, provided that the package contains more than two grains of opium, or more than one-fourth grain of morphine, or more than one-sixteenth grain of heroin, or more than eight grains of chloral-hydrate in one fluid ounce, or if a solid preparation, in one avoirdupois ounce; and the provisions of section 19 of chapter 75 of the Revised Laws shall apply to the manner and form in which such statements shall be marked or inscribed. Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, or to expose or offer for sale, or to give or exchange, any patent or proprietary medicine or article containing cocaine or any of its salts, or alpha or beta eucaine or any synthetic substitute of the aforesaid. Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, or to expose or offer for sale, or to give or exchange any cocaine or alpha or beta eucaine or any synthetic substitute of the aforesaid or any preparation containing the same, or any salts or compounds thereof, except upon the written prescription of a physician, dentist or veterinary surgeon registered under the laws of the commonwealth; and no such prescription shall be filled more than once. Sec. 5. The provisions of sections 3 and 4 shall not apply to sales at wholesale made to retail druggists or dental depots, nor to sales made to physicians, dentists or regularly incorporated hospitals. Sec. 6. Whoever manufactures, sells or offers for sale any medicine or food preparation in violation of the provisions of this act shall be It shall punished by a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $100. be the duty of the State Board of Health to cause the prosecution of all persons violating the terms of this act; but no prosecution shall be brought for the sale at retail, or for the gift or exchange of any patent or proprietary medicine containing any of the drugs or preparations, the sale of which is prohibited or restricted as aforesaid, unless the said board has, prior to such sale, gift or exchange, given public notice in such trade journals or newspapers as it may select that the sale of the said medicine at retail would be contrary to law. Local, Philadelphia and Baltimore Bowling Experts to Meet. Another interesting bowling match has been arranged by the expert pin topplers of the drug house teams in Philadelphia and Baltimore as well as those in this city. This contest of alley skill, which will be held in Atlantic City on May 4 and 5, I will be known as the Intercity Wholesale Drug Trade Bowling League games. The members of the teams, representing all three cities, will be chosen from among the bowlers of the local teams who have won honors making the highest individual scores. It is probable that seven men will be picked from among the crackerjacks on the Parke, Davis & Co., Dodge & Olcott, Colgate & Co., Whitall, Tatum Company, Seabury & Johnson and Lazell, Dalley & Co. teams to fight for the New York Wholesale Drug Trade Bowling Association, for although only five men are needed to compose the team for this city it is thought to be desirable to have at least two substitutes on hand. The Philadelphia and Baltimore associations will also make up their teams in a similar manner, and it is expected that the contest will attract a large audience of bowling enthusiasts. Dr. Lovis, "Lou" Burgess, "Mat" Judge, William J. Carr, Oldershaw, Gooding and Ruddiman, who are likely to be selected for the local team, are continuing their practice games at the Albion alleys. The New York team will make its headquarters in the Hotel Strand at Atlantic City. Commencement at the Albany College of Pharmacy. The twenty-fifth annual commencement exercises of the Albany College of Pharmacy, which took place at Odd Fellows' Hall, in Albany, on Tuesday evening, April 10, were in the nature of a silver celebration, and all the speakers made reference to the anniversary character of the occasion. Dr. Willis G. Tucker, professor of chemistry and dean of the faculty, opened the exercises with an address of welcome. taking as the basis of his remarks an outline of the history of the institution, which was founded in 1881 as a department of Union University. Of those active in the organization of the college, only two are now living, namely, Dr. Alfred B. Huested and Professor Tucker, the latter of who alone of the original faculty remains on the active list. Professor Tucker pointed out the great improvement which had been wrought in the institution. The course of instruction has been lengthened, the hours of instruction quadrupled, the laboratory work increased and the requirements for graduation materially elevated. Special reference was made to the effect of the prerequisite law, which Dr. Tucker expected to exert a very powerful influence for good in the cause of pharmacy. The alumni of the institution now number 481, and a special appeal was made to the alumni to aid in the erection of a building for the institution and for the upholding of the high standing which had been inculcated in their minds by the faculty. MISS MABEL DICKINSON. After the formal conferring of the degrees by the Rev. Dr. Raymond, Chancellor of the University, an address to the graduates was delivered by Dr. J. H. Mitchell, of Cohoes. In his address Dr. Mitchell urged the graduates to establish high ideals of duty and to keep true to those ideals under the most adverse circumstances, and exhorting them to remember that not only would the individual pharmacist suffer should he fail to live up to the full measure of his duty, but that his shortcomings would be charged against the profession at large. He counselled his hearers to obey all laws, whether the laws be good or bad, but also admonished them that it was part of their duty as citizens to secure the repeal of bad laws, and that in order to be in a position to do this it would be necessary for them to take an active part in politics in certain limits. He said that the retailer who dispensed an alcoholic proprietary as a harmless tonic was just as guilty as the man who made it. In conclusion, he urged the graduates never to forget their alma mater, to which they owed their professiona! education. The valedictory address by Joseph D. Beavan was next on the order on the programme, after which came the presentation of prizes by Prof. Alfred B. Huested, as follows: A prize of $25 for the best examination in all branches was awarded to Joseph Dudley Beavan, with honorable mention of Harmon S. Van Patten, H. S. Bertrand and W. C. Bartram. A prize of $25 offered by the alumni association for the best examination in pharmaceutical laboratory work was awarded to H. D. Mudge, with honorable mention of J. H. Christopher and C. W. Strong. A prize of $15 offered by Dr. John M. Bigelow, a member of the board of trustees, for the best examination in microscopy, was awarded to J. D. Beavan, with honoroble mention of W. C. Barton. A prize of $15 for the best junior examination in all branches was awarded to C. G. Clifford, with honorable men tion of W. D. Foody, A. Shoemaker and L. E. Carey. A prize of $10, offered by Professor Tucker to the junior student passing the best examination in chemistry, was awarded to Miss Ida L. Moore, with honorable mention of |