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1st. The nature and extent of the sophistication and adulteration 

 of drugs, as practised by the wholesale dealers and retail druggists. 



2d. The best means for the prevention of the evil, in its various 

 forms. 



Dr. E. S. Carr, Chairman of the Committee, on the nomination 

 of officers, reported the following nominations, which were unani- 

 mously confirmed. 



PRESIDENT, 

 Dr. A. H. Stevens, of N. Y. 



VICE PRESIDENTS, 

 Dr. John C. Warren, Mass., Dr. Samuel Jackson, Pa., 

 Dr. Paul F. Eve, Qa., Dr. W. M. Awl, Ohio. 



SECRETARIES, 

 Dr. Alfred Stille, Pa.; Dr. H. I. Bowditch, Mass. 



TREASURER, 

 Dr. Isaac Hays, Pa. 



On motion of Dr. Atlee, the chairman of the nominating Com- 

 mittee conducted the President to the chair, who returned thanks 

 in the following address: 



Accept, gentlemen, my profound acknowledgments for the dis- 

 tinguished honour you have conferred upon me. Were it not esteemed 

 beyond all price, it would be earned, dearly earned, by the oppres- 

 sive sense of embarrassment it brings with it. I fear I may disap- 

 point your expectations in the discharge of the duties imposed upon 

 me. I have not sought this station, and having never presided over 

 so large a deliberative assembly, am not much conversant with the 

 rules of parliamentary procedure. But among members of our 

 brotherhood, who acknowledge one faith, and sacrifice at the same 

 altar, there are feelings of good will and sympathy, which, when 

 properly appealed to — certain chords which, when rightly touched, 

 never fail to elicit a harmonious response; on this, I confidently 

 place my trust. 



In elevating to the Presidency of the American Medical Associa- 

 tion the very humble individual who addresses you, two important 

 principles appear to have been asserted : 1. That of rotation in office ; 

 2. The preference of those who have been longest connected with 

 your body. 



Our meetings, gentlemen, have been conducted hitherto in a spirit 



