_Patent Reform Bill._—Representative Currier, Chairman of the House Committee on Patents, has introduced a bill to substitute the much discussed Mann bill. This bill, popularly known as the Currier bill, is practically a revival of the reciprocity feature of the original Mann bill, but is not restricted to medicine, or medicinal products and includes patents of all kinds. The Currier bill provides: “That any patent issued to a citizen or subject of a foreign country, shall be upon the same conditions and for the same term as are patents issued by such country to citizens of the United States.” This single provision, it is said, would effectually correct the evils arising from our present system of process and product patents, but would be contrary to the terms of the International Convention for the protection of industrial property and will no doubt be vigorously opposed on this ground. _Incorporation of the Public Health Defense League._ A bill has been introduced into the Legislature of the State of New York providing for the incorporation of the Public Health Defense League, under a special charter patterned after that of the Red Cross Society. The object of this new society is announced as being an organized movement against medical and surgical quacks, frauds in patent medicines or nostrums, and an effort to obtain and to disseminate accurate information concerning practices and conditions of every kind that are dangerous to the public health and morals. (_Journal A. M. A._, 1907, page 236.) _Sunday Rest in France._—Pharmacists in France are not alone adapting themselves to the recently enacted Sunday Rest Law, but are even going farther and are adopting earlier hours for closing during the week. At Grenoble, where Sunday closing has been in vogue for some time, the pharmacists have decided to close at 8 P.M. daily and to organize a night service by rotation. The syndicate of Paris pharmacists recommends that its members adopt 9 P.M. as the hour for closing during the week and to close from midday till the following morning on Sundays and bank holidays. (_Chem. and Drug._, 1906, page 775.) _Popularity of Pasteur in France._—The _Petit Parisien_ has taken a rather interesting plebiscite as to who is thought to be the greatest of nineteenth century Frenchmen. In the voting Pasteur took the lead from the first, followed by Victor Hugo, Gambetta, Napoleon I, Thiers and Lazare Carnot, in the order named. (_Chem. and Drug._, 1907, page 6.) _Doses in the Codex._—The Codex Revision Committee has decided to include a list of maximum doses in a supplement to the Codex, and has delegated the work of drawing up such a list to a special committee including MM. Laudouszy, Marty, Bourquelot, Gilbert and Yvon. (_Chem. and Drug._, Dec., 1906, page 884.)