_Resolved_ that all members of this branch be urged to exclude such medicines and articles from their stocks. The secretary then read a communication entitled “Objectionable Side Lines to the Practice of Medicine,” specifically mentioning several profit-sharing and stock-distributing schemes that are now doing business in the city of Philadelphia. This communication was, on motion, directed to be forwarded to the Secretary of the Philadelphia County Medical Society with the offer to submit additional evidence to the officials of that organization. There being no further business the meeting was declared adjourned. FEBRUARY MEETING. The regular stated meeting of the Philadelphia Branch of the American Pharmaceutical Association was held on the evening of Tuesday, February 5, 1907, in the Hall of the College of Physicians. The subject under discussion, “Higher Educational Requirements for Pharmacists,” has attracted considerable attention during the past year or more, and it was therefore not surprising to find that retail pharmacists attending this meeting were comparatively well informed on questions relating to education, and fully appreciated the need for more rapid advancement along educational lines in the future. The first speaker on the subject, Mr. William L. Cliffe, in discussing “The Practical Needs for Higher Education in Pharmacy,” called attention to the fact that the people at large are rapidly becoming more thoroughly familiarized with the needs and the wants of the practice of pharmacy. He believes that with the further elimination of empiricism and mysticism from the science of medicine more will be expected of pharmacists, and they in turn will be required to be educated in every way. Prof. Henry Kraemer, in speaking on “Standards in Pharmaceutical Education,” (see p. 101) called attention to the fact that up to the present time the progress of pharmacy in this country had been comparatively slow and that we are now entering on an era of more rapid development. He believes that the enactment of pure food and drug laws will add great additional responsibility to the duties of the retail pharmacist and will also tend to more sharply define the corresponding duties of the colleges and of the boards of pharmacy. Dr. Horatio C. Wood, Jr., in speaking on “The Future Elaboration of a Course in Pharmacy,” said that, as a commercial pursuit, the business of pharmacy must necessarily be one of limited scope and possibilities; as a profession, however, pharmacy can be developed into an occupation of laudable aims and high ideals. He believes that the pharmacist should develop as the assistant and the adviser of the physician, who in turn must depend more and more on the efforts of the pharmacist to select for him and to improve on the efficiency of the available articles of the materia medica.