So the Society for the future will publish its Journal as a monthly for original papers and communications, of which it has as many as it can possibly find room for in its twelve issues, and the Abstract Journal as a semi-monthly, covering the whole field of pure and applied chemistry under some 30 subdivisions, of which pharmaceutical chemistry is one. That this subject will be cared for in an appreciative and intelligent way can be assumed, as we note that Prof. A. B. Stevens of Ann Arbor is in charge of the abstracts in this field. For those who are not members of the Society the subscription price is as follows: Journal of the American Chemical Society, monthly, $6; Chemical Abstracts, semi-monthly, $6; for both journals sent to the same subscriber, $10. Members of the American Chemical Society receive both journals for the annual membership fee of $8. S. P. SADTLER. THE PHILADELPHIA BRANCH OF THE AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. The regular stated meeting of the Philadelphia Branch of the American Pharmaceutical Association was held on the evening of Friday, January 4, 1907, and was attended by 63 members and visitors. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and declared approved. The Committee on Sunday Closing and the Committee on State Legislation made preliminary reports that were received and ordered filed. On behalf of the Committee on State Legislation Mr. Cliffe said that members of the committee had had an opportunity to confer with the members of a special committee of the State Legislature on the subject and that a joint conference of members of committees interested in the enactment of a State Food and Drug Law would be held at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy on the evening of Tuesday, January 15, 1907. The regular program for the evening was then proceeded with. This consisted of a discussion of “The Debasing Influences of Fraudulent Nostrums.” The first communication, by Dr. Solomon Solis Cohen, was devoted to the consideration of “Secrecy and Fraud as Deterring Factors to the Progress of Medicine.” Dr. Cohen, in the course of his remarks, said that progress means an ascent from little or no knowledge to knowledge, and from knowledge to greater knowledge. Secrecy is the withholding of knowledge and breeds ignorance, while fraud is even worse than ignorance in that it is designed to mislead. Dr. Cohen also asserted that therapeutics was difficult enough under the most favorable conditions and that in cases where a physician is confronted with secrecy or fraud, in the statements made in connection with medicinal preparations, he is likely to be misled himself and to do untold harm to his patients.