The usual attendance, contribution of papers, and same degree of interest was manifested at all the sessions. The convention continued in session four days and adjourned to meet at Eagle's Mere, June, 1903. Sept. 6, 1902. JOHN F. PATTON. DR. H. M. WHELPLEY, President American Pharmaceutical Association. Dear Sir: The twenty-third annual meeting of the Iowa Pharmaceutical Association convened in Sioux City, July 8, 1902, with perhaps the largest concurrent attendance of any meeting in a dozen years. For this the State Association is indebted to the vigorous efforts of the local committee, who are known not to do things by halves. Notwithstanding the fact that the average Iowa member goes to his State meeting to renew acquaintances, make friends, rest from his labors and enjoy himself, there are annually presented at the meetings a number of papers on scientific and trade interest. Unfortunately the hours of the sessions are so filled with routine work that little time is left for the reading and discussion of these papers. Pursuant to your request it was my pleasure to extend to the Iowa Pharmaceutical Association on your behalf the fraternal greetings of the mother society, and to bring to the notice of the members the claims of the American Pharmaceutical Association for moral and material support, and the advantages to be derived by membership. Mr. Gust. Scherling, of the local committee, had anticipated my feeble efforts with much good work, and as a result a number of applications for membership are presented at this meeting from Iowa. I am confident that pharmacists everywhere realize their obligations to the American Pharmaceutical Association, and only need to have the obligations and benefits brought to their notice to respond promptly. I now regret that the opportunities have been so long delayed in our State. Sept. 9, 1902. Respectfully submitted, EMIL L. BOERner, Delegate to Iowa Pharmaceutical Association. To the President and Members of the American Pharmaceutical Association: As a delegate from this Association, appointed by our President, I had the pleasure of attending the thirty-second annual meeting of the New Jersey Pharmaceutical Association. The meeting was held at Atlantic City, in the Hotel Isleworth, June 4th and 5th, 1902. The meeting was called to order by the President, James Foulke, in the parlor of the hotel; there was quite a good attendance and the President's very able address was listened to with a great deal of attention. He made a number of recommendations in the interests of the Association and Pharmacy; one that was an advance step, being a raising of the requirements for registration in the state. All applicants for registration must be graduates of a college of pharmacy before they are eligible to make application for registration before the Board of Pharmacy. He called attention to the fact that all veterinary surgeons must be graduates from some college and file a copy of their diplomas. How much more important should it be that those, whose duty it was to dispense medicines for both man and beast, should be fully qualified for their duties. The Secretary reported a total membership of three hundred and ninety-eight (398), a gain of fifteen (15) over last year's report. Thirty-six new members joined at the meeting, making a total membership of four hundred and thirty-four (434). The report from the Board of Pharmacy was very interesting and very favorably received. The Board has been testing its new pharmacy law, and has secured convictions and collected fines in every case they have tried. One case carrying an appeal to the Supreme Court of the state on the constitutionality of the law and other points, the Courts sustained the law in every instance. The Secretary reported 285 applicants examined, and eighty-eight passed, for the year; also a registration of the pharmacists of the state, 1,731 being the number in good standing at the present time in the state. A very generous offer was made to the Association by the New Jersey College of Pharmacy through its President, offering a free scholarship to the Association, to be known as the Free Scholarship of the New Jersey Pharmaceutical Association, open to any young man in the State by competitive examination, the members of the board to be selected by the President of the Association, the examinations to be yearly, the college to accept their decision in the contest. It was accepted by the Association with many complimentary remarks. Resolutions were adopted in reference to the loss sustained by the Association and Pharmacy by the death of Dr. Charles Rice; motion being made that a suitably engrossed copy be prepared and sent to the New York College of Pharmacy, attested with the signatures of the officers of the Association. A number of very interesting papers were presentod by the Query Committee; but, owing to the limited time, only two were read, the others appearing in the proceedings of the Association. The meeting of our Association in Philadelphia was brought before the members by your delegate, and was very ably assisted by the members of our Association who were present. Our meeting being held so near New Jersey, gave it more interest, and many promised to attend our semi-centennial meeting and enjoy our hospitality. I secured 12 members who will join at this meeting. The entertainment, given by the Pharmacists of Atlanric City, was thoroughly enjoyed by all. Many took the opportunity to make a friendly call on Prof. Remington at his bouse, and were shown the great amount of work being done there on the Revision of the Pharmacopoeia, which was very interesting and instructive. The next meeting of the Association will be held at Lake Hopatcong, N. J., in 1903. MR. HENRY M. WHELPLEY, President, A. Ph. A., Philadelphia, Pa.: Dear Sir: Having been appointed to represent the A. Ph. A. at the Washington State Association, I have the honor to submit herewith report of the meeting of the Association: The Association met in the city of Seattle, July 12th, and the attendance was a good representation of the entire State and was one of unusual interest. The most important matters acted upon were: The proposed formation of the Pacific Coast Association of druggists' local organizations for the purpose of effectively battling with the cut-rate evil and in other ways cooperating to promote the commercial welfare of the trade; the endorsement of the good work of the National Association of Retail Druggists; the endorsement of the Joy bill now pending in Congress, and proposing the reduction of the tax on alcohol used in the liberal arts to 70 cents per gallon; the endorsement of five druggists from whom the Governor may appoint a member of the State Board of Pharmacy, to succeed J. W. McArthur; the admission of new members; the election of officers for the ensuing year and appointment of committees to care for the work of the organization; the awarding of prizes for the most meritorious papers, and the passing of resolutions of condolence to the relatives and friends of deceased members. The following resolutions were adopted: Resolved, That the State Medical Association be invited to name a delegate each year to represent their association in the annual meeting of the Washington State Pharmaceutical Association. Resolved, That this association elect a delegate to the State Medical Association to convey to that body our fraternal and cordial good wishes, and to report back to this association all matters of mutual interest. The following gentlemen were elected as delegates to represent the association at the A. Ph. A.: Henry E. Holmes, Seattle; Emil Bories, Seattle; J. H. Day, Dayton; Sophus Joergensen, LaConner; J. W. McArthur, Spokane. Respectfully submitted, HENRY E. HOLMES. CHARLESTON, S. Ç., September 6, 1902. DR. H. M. WHELPLEY, President of the American Pharmaceutical Association, Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Sir: As your delegate to the South Carolina Pharmaceutical Association it affords me pleasure to make the following report: Your delegate was courteously and cordially received at the twenty-first annual meeting of the South Carolina Pharmaceutical Association, held in this city on the 21st and 22d of May last. The meeting was called to order at 10: 30 a. m. at the Freundschaftbund Hall by President Owings, of Columbia, S. C. Principally routine business was transacted. Your delegate took part in the proceedings and called the attention of the members to the Jubilee Meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association, and intermingling with them, endeavored to obtain new members for the national organization, and succeeded in obtaining a few names. With regret that I cannot be present at the fiftieth anniversary of the Association, and extending my congratulations, Yours very truly, C. P. AIMAR, Delegate to South Carolina Pharmaceutical Association. Mr. Mayo then arose and said: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: As we are about to bring to a close this, the most memorable meeting in the history of the American Pharmaceutical Association, save one, I should like to call attention to the particularly generous manner in which we have been received by our fellow-workers in pharmacy here, and also to call attention to the fact that at this meeting we have had in attendance nearly a thousand members and friends of the Association. Our deliberations have occupied the full measure of a week. Nearly a hundred original communications have been presented, on the widest possible variety of topics. Our proceedings will fill more than a thousand printed pages. Our attendance covers the whole of the United States and Canada from Texas to Nova Scotia and from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast; among it have been numbered eighteen former Presidents of the Association, and we have heard from the lips of one of the oldest living members, the first paper presented to this Association. Our hosts, the local members, have provided for us entertainments filling to repletion every moment of our waking hours; but in spite of all this, ladies and gentlemen, I say to you that this has NOT been the most important meeting in the history of the Association. At the most important meeting in the history of the organization, instead of an attendance of a thousand, there were only a score of earnest workers present-instead of a full week, that meeting lasted but a single day. In lieu of the hundred papers which we have had before us for our consideration, they were content with informal but earnest discussion. A score of pages suffice to record their proceedings, instead of the thousand which will be required by this meeting. Only four cities were represented, instead of the liberal representation which we have with us here from every section of this broad and beautiful land, and yet, I say to you, ladies and gentlemen, that that meeting of the Association, small in number, brief in duration but altruistic in inspiration, gathered in the comparatively obscure quarters of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, vastly exceeded in importance the imposing gathering of men famous in pharmacy throughout the world who have honored us with their presence on this occasion. For at that apparently insignificant meeting those high-minded, unselfish enthusiasts, filled with the noblest aspirations for the elevation of their calling, planted a seed which has brought forth the American Pharmaceutical Association. That seed fell on fertile ground among the pharmacists of this country, was carefully tended and nourished in its early years, until it now stands like a mighty oak rooted deeply in the hearts of the leaders of pharmacy all over the United States, and spreading its protecting branches over all the varied and diverse interests of pharmacy throughout this broad land of ours. That earlier meeting, therefore, and not this held 50 years later at the same place, is entitled to rank as the most important in the history of this organization, and it is to those pioneers who founded the Association that we have rendered homage on this our jubilee meeting. But these men who established the lofty ideals which have dominated pharmacy in this city of brotherly love for the past half century have left behind them worthy sons of noble sires, and to these descendants we are individually indebted for the privileges and the pleasures which have been ours during this jubilee meeting. It would be impossible, Mr. President, for one to enumerate each individual to whom thanks should be returned, for we are assured from the results which have been achieved that every one of the thousand pharmacists of this city has manfully done his share towards making this meeting a success in every possible aspect. Therefore, Mr. President, I move you a sincere vote of thanks on the part of this organization to the Local Secretary, Mr. Cliffe, to whose personal popularity and executive ability we are so largely indebted for the enthusiastic co-operation of the local members. To the Philadelphia Association of Retail Druggists for the generous entertainment and to Mr. George M. Beringer and his associates of the Committee on Semi-Centennial for the instructive and entertaining program and exhibit which they have provided for us. To Mr. Thos. P. Cook and his associates upon the Committee of Commercial Exhibits which have proven a source of interest and a means of instruction to so many of our members. And to the pharmacists of Philadelphia at large, all of whom have done so much to make our stay here agreeable and entertaining. To the special delegates to State Associations. And, finally, Mr. President, I move you a special vote of thanks to the ladies who have sacrificed their domestic comfort to be with us to add by their grace and charm the final finishing touch which will make of this meeting, if not the most important in the history of the Association, certainly the most important and delightful in the memory of those who have been privileged to be in attendance. Mr. Mayo's remarks were cordially received and generously applauded. MR. SHEPPARD: I rise to second this motion with enthusiasm, and I hope you will forgive me if I, as Treasurer, take partieular pride in one name that has been mentioned there-the name of a very quiet man, who never talks in our meetings, but who can nevertheless hand in his check for $950.16, after all the expenses of the exhibition we have seen and enjoyed here have been paid in full and everything cleaned up. I take a great deal of pleasure in showing this check (exhibiting it before the audience), showing the business ability-not to mention the modesty-of Thomas P. Cook. [Applause.] Mr. Mayo's resolutions were then adopted by a unanimous rising vote. The President stated that, if there was no further business before the Association, he would appoint ex-President Hancock (1873) and ex-President Sander (1871) a committee to escort the President-elect to the platform, that he might be duly installed. These gentlemen performed that very pleasant duty, and Mr. Hancock, in introducing Mr. Payne, said: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: We have had one week of unalloyed pleasure, but now the hour has come when you must be inflicted with Payne. [Laughter.] I will now let this exhibition of Payne express himself. Mr. Payne then said: Mr. President and Fellow Members of the American Pharmaceutical Association: I deeply appreciate the distinguished honor that you have conferred upon me, the highest honor in the gift of American Pharmacy, and will earnestly serve you to the best of my capacity. Success is usually due to either genius or hard work; many of us not having the genius, we must depend on hard work; so of those of you who have the genius, I beg some of your brilliancy to illumine our administration, and of the workers I also beg your hearty co-operation and assistance, that we may make this first year of our second semi-centennial a shining example for the following years. Some of you may be in the fix of an old colored woman for whom I was requested to put up a prescription some time ago. A negro came into my store one day and said: "Boss! I want you to put up this subscription for a powerful poor old cullud 'oman; please make it as cheap as you kin, becase she gits her money by hard licks, and it's mighty few hard licks she kin make." Of those of you who cannot make many hard licks, I beg, in the words of the Hoosier farmer, James Whitcomb Riley, that you "Jest do your best, the praise, the blame Is mixed with troubles more or less, Who gets more kicks than all the rest." Let us strive onward and upward. Pharmacy will be what we make it. Let us make it what we wish it to be. Our country is passing through a period of tremendous evolution, and we must be up and doing, that our business and our profession should be recognized as it deserves. The new President's remarks were heartily applauded. RETIRING PRESIDENT WHELPLEY: Members of the American Pharmaceutical Association, in fulfilling my duties as retiring President I have great pleasure in investing Mr. George F. Payne, of Atlanta, Georgia, with the insigna of office (fastens the President's badge on his coat), and providing him with the gavel (suiting the action to the word) with which he is to preside at our next meeting at Mackinac Island, August 10th, 1903. I notice, Mr. President, that you hesitate to receive these tokens of office, but I beg to remind you that no man knows his capabilities until he has made a trial of them. Now, fellow-members of the American Pharmaceutical Association, I have endeavored to give you my best efforts as a presiding officer, and my term of office having expired, I am ready to retire from that position and take my place among my fellow-members and go to the obscurity whence I came one year ago; but I cannot do so without expressing my thanks to my associate officers and the members of the various standing and special committees for their hearty co-operation in the arduous work of the past twelve months. Gentlemen, I thank you one and all. [Great applause.] President Payne took the chair. The same committee was named to escort First Vice-President Cliffe to the platform, and they brought him forward amid the applause of the convention. |