SEC. 16. All acts or portions of acts regulating the practice of pharmacy and the sale of poisons within this State, enacted prior to the passage of this act, are hereby repealed; provided, nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent any person who has once been a registered member, and may have forfeited his membership by non-payment of dues or fees, from renewing his membership by paying the required dues or fees without examination.

SEC. 17. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

APPROVED March 24th, 1882.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON EXHIBITION.

TO THE MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. GENTLEMEN: Your committee beg leave respectfully to present as their report the following:

The exhibition was presented in the Prospect Park Pavilion, the apparently ample space of which proved insufficient to accommodate all who applied, and some of the later applications had to be refused. Whenever the building was thrown open to the public, a constant throng of visitors attested the interest and success. The effect of the gaslight upon the many colored objects was striking, and highly effective.

To fully and conscientiously perform the duties assigned this committee involves much time and labor, and requires the co-operative assistance of all its members. A statement of general application, perhaps, in regard to committee work, and a hint of some consideration to the power which constitutes committees.

Owing to the time required, and the great variety of articles presented for inspection, a general allusion only to the character of each exhibit can be made, and any omissions to notice particular features must be assignable to the neglect of the exhibitors, or their represen tatives, and not to that of the committee.

Your committee feel compelled to notice in this report the marked absence, of what may be aptly designated, though by homely phrase, of home-made, or shop-made preparations-galenical and pharmaceutical, direct from the retail shops of the country-from the rude, and meagre laboratories of the dispensers-aye, from the limited apparatus of the compounder-the more simple the appliances, the more rude the machinery, the greater and more enduring the credit. And your committee are further of the opinion that this Association should extend its encouragement in this direction, and establish a schedule of awards for competitive effort in perfecting the familiar preparations. of the shop, from the simplest to the most complicated; that the Association would thus stimulate the education and ingenuity of its

members, protect them against a most serious and fast-growing evil, and endeavor at least to place the business of the pharmacist once more in a position of professional independence, dignity, and good standing.

Your committee consider that in certain features these exhibitions are not without value as a means of instruction. Those who are debarred by distance and other causes from visiting the commercial centres, can derive much information by a close inspection of crude drugs, many of which in original packages are curious and interesting, as well as chemical and pharmaceutical preparations in large bulk; glassware, and sundries in tasteful display; general sundries, miscellaneous articles and novelties. That the Association should instruct its committee to visit the exhibition at stated intervals, that a time should be appointed, and faithfully kept, for an official visit of the Association in a body; this much being deemed due to the exhibitors for the labor and expense incurred by them, and as an act of simple courtesy.

A proper appreciation is due to the local secretary, Mr. Hiram E. Griffiths, of Niagara Falls, for the labor and assiduous work in the assignment of space to the various exhibitors, and to the facilities extended to members of the Association, involving constant personal attention to many petty though important details.

EXHIBITORS.

The Randolph Paper Box Company, of Richmond, Va., exhibited a very large and attractive display of paper boxes for every purpose imaginable, and of every shape conceivable, in great variety of style and ornamentation; wrapping, and powder papers, fancy boxes for powder and puffs, of highly ornate and beautiful finish.

William R. Warner & Co., of Philadelphia, a varied display of sugarcoated pills, parvules, or small pills, and granules, elixirs, effervescent salts, cachous, and specialties; all suggestive of mechanical accuracy and nicety.

Tarrant & Co., of New York, powdered drugs, refined chemicals, ethereal oils, fluid extracts, elixirs, essential oils, and Spanish Castile soap; all attractively grouped, and arranged.

Eli Lilly & Co., of Indianapolis, fluid extracts, sugar-coated pills, gelatin-coated pills, elixirs, syrups, etc. The gelatinous coating of the Messrs. Lilly & Co.'s pills present no pin-perforations.

Bullock & Crenshaw, of Philadelphia, a large assortment of sugarcoated pills, elixirs, fluid extracts, neatly arranged for view and inspection, presenting evidences of skill and care in manufacture.

John M. Maris & Co., of Philadelphia, a well-presented assortment

of cologne bottles, shelf bottles, window furniture of latest design and fashion; mortars, graduates, patch boxes, twines spooled and reeled, vari-colored, of linen surface finish; adjustable pill roller and retainer, and glassware in great variety.

Mellor & Rittenhouse, of Philadelphia, extract of licorice in mass, stick, and in lozenges; powdered extract of licorice, licorice root, and ammoniated glycyrrhizin, a substance said to materially obtund the bitterness of quinine. The licorice extract assumes an additional interest in being a comparatively new branch of American industry, being made from the root as imported.

Hance, Bros. & White, of Philadelphia, pharmaceutical preparations, fluid extracts, sugar-coated pills, absorbent cotton, powdered drugs, powdered extracts, fruit juices, and, as a mechanical adjunct, Hance's drug-mill-the manufactured products giving token of standard quality throughout.

Messrs. Theo, Ricksecker, of New York, exhibited a line of fancy goods, druggist's sundries, toilet articles, and specialties, among the latter Ricksecker's skin soap.

The Albany Chemical Co., of Albany, New York, exhibited fine elixirs, fluid extracts, concentrated spirit of nitre, and many other preparations.

P. J. McElroy, of East Cambridge, Mass., glass syringes, Geyer's nipple-shields and breast-pumps (sensible and practical instruments), syringes in cases; these instruments have a piston-packing asbestos fibre, which while fitting closely is non-absorbent, and would appear to present an important advantage.

H. Sugden Evans & Co., acid syrups, different flavors, with a basis of lime juice; lime fruit juice tablets, and Montserrat lime fruit juice cordial.

N. Rosenwasser, of Cleveland, Ohio, percolating apparatus. In the construction of this instrument the inventor claims greater mechanical perfection and utility than is to be found in the ordinary forms of similar apparatus.

John Matthews, of New York, soda-water apparatus of most elegant design and finish; in the general effect and ornamentation, skill, taste, and workmanship would seem to have reached the highest attainment. Generators were also exhibited as well as glass siphons, syrup containers of glass, constructed with a view to the avoidance of metallic contact; fruit juices, flavoring essences for syrups, and a draft stand of unique construction for medicinal mineral waters.

B. O. & G. C. Wilson, of Boston, pressed and loose herbs, barks, roots, flowers, leaves, powdered drugs, fluid extracts, etc.

Young, Ladd & Coffin, of New York, manufacturers and proprietors of Lundborg's perfumery; odors in great variety, odor caskets of beautiful finish, handkerchief extracts, toilet perfumes, particularly observable in their diversity as well as most attractive in their clegance and quality.

Powers & Weightman, of Philadelphia, a rare and costly display of chemicals, alkaloids, pharmaceutical preparations, and natural products, a distinguishing feature of the general exhibit; the artistic grouping of the articles, the pleasing effect of contrast, the huge masses of crystals, showing the wonderful play of physical law, all arranged with a view to convenience for observation, attracted the attention of visitors as well as members of the Association, and created most favorable impression.

The Burroughs Bros. Manufacturing Co., of Baltimore, a very full assortment of fluid extracts, and medicinal fluid extracts, prepared from some of the most recently introduced vegetable substances.

Henry Træmner, of Philadelphia, variety of scales, analytical, prescription, and counter, of particularly fine finish, wonderfully accurate mechanical construction and adjustment, also metrical and troy weights.

Indexical Soap Co., of Boston (Robinson, Bros. & Co.), toilet, medicinal, and shaving soaps, pressed and moulded with mechanical nicety, richly perfumed and handsomely wrapped.

Gustavus Pile, Philadelphia, thermometers, Baumé hydrometers, specific gravity bottles, pipettes, graduates, dilatometers, and graduated bottles and tubes; chemical thermometers, hydrometer jars, urinometers, aluminium weights in the metric system, phosphoretted resin, and prepared chalk.

McIntyre & Embury, New York, chemicals, resinoids and fluid extracts. This house also exhibited a line of dialyzates, among them. such familiar substances as ergot, together with nux vomica, aconite, veratrum, and other alkaloidal substances.

Lazell, Marsh & Gardiner, odors in bulk, cases, caskets, and stands; sachet powders, smelling salts, cologne (Atwood's), powder puffs, Florida water; these goods were displayed in a handsome case or stand, elegant in dimensions, and tasteful in arrangement, with great effect. J. W. Campion & Co., Philadelphia, distilled bay rum or spirit, from St. Thomas, W. I., manufactured by A. H. Riise. This article has received some high encomiums. It possesses a distinctive, delicate, and permanent odor, in strongly marked contrast with the ordinary arti ficially manufactured articles of commerce.

C. B. Lochman, Bethlehem, Pa., photographs, in great variety, of medicinal plants; showing distinctive formation of leaves, fruits, and

medicinal parts; of manifest usefulness to the student. Also, Lochman's Book of Doses and Price labels; affording useful means of reference. A collection of quaint old drug-bills (exhibitor unknown), itemized and dated August 16th, 1766, June 18th, 1769, and October 14th, 1783. In design and rates very curious. Also an oddly worded advertisement of ancient date, of drugs and groceries for sale by Samuel Whiting, next door to the court-house, Great Barrington, Mass. Also, on same sheet, advertisement of Abram K. Whiting, of a "moderate retail stock of medicines," the attention of physicians being called in the following language, which, by the way, might have a significance at the present day: "Where gentlemen of the Faculty, who favour him. with their recipes, may depend upon having justice done their prescriptions." This was printed in New York, in 1783.

Thorp & Lloyd Brothers, of Cincinnati, a most extensive and liberal display of resinoids and active principles, conspicuous among them being large bulk of podophyllin, hydrastine, and leptandrin, crude and purified, muriate, salicylate, and sulphate of hydrastine, and a specimen of nitrate of sanguinarine, of a peculiarly bright and odd color.

Seabury & Johnson, New York, a very full and complete display of special manufactures. Absorbent lint, plain and medicated; absorbent cotton-plasters, in endless variety, all well known and familiar to the trade.

John Wyeth & Bro., Philadelphia, fluid extracts, compressed pills, select drugs, Lawton's absorbent cotton, elixirs, hypodermic pellets, Bishop's effervescent salts, and Marvin's cod-liver oil.

Smith, Kline & Co., Philadelphia, elixirs, concentrated liquors, extracts, pepsin, ergot, and other medicinal substances, cylindric lozenge roller, and adjustable pill machine.

Hiram E. Griffith, Niagara Falls, flavoring extracts, emulsion codliver oil, camphor ice, elixirs, writing and copying inks, etc.

Loeb & Bro., 604 Broadway, New York, toilet cases, medicine chests, neat and tasteful in proportion and design, from moderate to expensive in price. Also fancy goods for holiday sales.

Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, St. Louis, Mo. Specimen of carbolic acid, bottled in 1875, showing no discoloration, notwithstanding continued exposure to light. (NOTE.-This house had arranged for a large display of manufactured products, but were so unfortunate as to have their goods delayed in transit. They manufacture a line of chemicals for medicinal, photographic, and technical purposes.)

W. H. Schieffelin & Co., New York. The gentlemen in charge, Messrs. Gellatly, Buehler, and Parsons, were favored in the location of their exhibit, and used the advantage with commendable taste and skill in the arrangement of the various articles, presenting a large,