R u b y who had but recently returned from South America where he had gone as the organizer and soul of the Mulford Biological Expedition, exploring the Amazon Basin. After the dinner Dr. Rusby spoke informally upon the experiences and observations of his journey. The lecture was illustrated with lantern slides and the observations were of so much general interest that the Editor requested Dr. Rusby to abstract his remarks for publication. The abstract is presented in this issue.
"How to interest the student in the use of the library?" is a question that interests every pharmaceutical educator. Like everything worth while it cannot be done without an effort OR the part of the individual instructor and the effort of the instructor cannot be spasmodic. It must be constant and persistent.-At the Cleveland meeting, Dr. Edward Krcrners of Wisconsin, at the request of the Chairman of the Executive Committee, gave an informal talk upon this subject. The talk was illustrated with original drafts of bibliographic sheets, with a copy of the sheets-showing how the sheets are used by the student in writing his thesis, with published bibliographies, and, finally, with typed and printed cards which showed how each institution can build up its own system of bibliographic information for the use of students as well as instructors. Any method that will bring to the student the value of an acquaintanceship with pharmaceutical literature is well worth while. In fact the future of scientific pharmacy depends largely upon our being able to do this. Dr. Kremers is pointing the way and we may well take notice.
Again Dr. Kremers, in his fascinating way, told of an experiment which he carried out in the summer session at the University of Wisconsin in 1922. Experiments such as this one would, if they could become general, interest greater numbers of high school students in Pharmacyand what is more important-would direct a better type of student into Pharmacy.