A paper on “Sunday Closing: A Means of Elevating Pharmacy,” by Clarence H. Campbell, a local druggist, was read in the absence of the author by George B. Weidemann, P.D. The paper contained the statement that at the recent conventions of the National Association of Retail Druggists held in St. Louis and Atlanta, resolutions were unanimously adopted favoring Sunday closing, and that helpful suggestions had been made as to the ways and means of bringing about this end. The writer was of the opinion that the long hours without proportionate compensation has an influence in keeping young men from taking up pharmacy in the first place, or of pursuing it after qualifying for the work. Mr. Campbell also considered some of the arguments that have already been advanced in some of the previous issues of this JOURNAL as to the necessity of reasonable rest and recreation in broadening the horizon of the pharmacist. Mr. Thomas H. Potts also presented a communication on the subject of Sunday closing and shorter hours. After considering the need of a more liberal spirit on the part of pharmacists and the necessity for an improvement in the number of hours that the pharmacist is on duty, Mr. Potts said that he fully admitted that the public must be taken into consideration, but maintained that they can be educated, and very readily, to acquiesce in this movement if concerted action be taken by druggists. Mr. Potts further remarked that in his opinion there is only one possible plan to adopt and that is to agitate this question on every favorable opportunity. He said that since the agitation begun last fall by the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, a great many retailers have closed their stores on Sunday afternoons, and in conversation with some of them he was informed that they like the plan so well that they could not be induced to return to the old conditions. R. W. Cuthbert, chairman of the committee appointed by the college to help forward the shorter-hour movement, reported that he was encouraged by the results that had already been attained. FLORENCE YAPLE, _Secretary pro tem._ PROCTER MONUMENT FUND. GENEROUS SUBSCRIPTION. Just as we are going to press Professor Remington informs us that Mr. John Wyeth, a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, of the class of 1854, has, for himself, his firm and his brother, subscribed the sum of $2,000 to the Procter Monument Fund. Mr. Wyeth has a warm appreciation of the services of Professor William Procter, not only to the cause of education, but to everything which tended to the advancement of pharmacy, particularly his researches on percolation and fluidextracts. It is confidently hoped that Mr. Wyeth’s example will be followed by others who have equally profited by the labors of the Father of American Pharmacy. THE NEW FOOD AND DRUGS LABORATORY.