480  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.    Mm  Jour,  phann. 
~  I     October,  lau8. 
The  total  value  of  the  several  funds,  viz. :  Ebert  Fund,  Cen- 
tennial Fund,  Life  Membership  Fund  and  Endowment  Fund 
amounts  to  $21,670.47.  After  the  report  was  adopted  Professor 
Remington  offered  resolutions  testifying  to  the  appreciation  of 
the  members  of  the  arduous  labors  of  Mr.  Sheppard,  who  for  22 
years  has  acted  as  Treasurer  of  the  Association  and  who  through 
illness  was  unable  to  attend  this  meeting.  The  resolutions  were 
signed  by  all  the  members  present  and  subsequently  forwarded  Mr. 
Sheppard. 
Professor  Caspari  read  the  report  of  the  financial  accounts  in 
the  care  of  the  General  Secretary.  In  the  report  of  the  Committee 
on  Publication  prepared  by  Professor  Caspari  it  was  stated :  "  that 
the  demand  for  the  new  edition  of  the  National  Formulary  continues, 
but  not  as  actively  as  last  year ;  and  that  it  became  necessary  to 
print  another  issue  of  5000  copies  of  the  book  during  the  past  year, 
making  a  total  of  29,000  copies  to  date:  The  total  expense  to  date 
of  publishing,  advertising  and  delivering  the  3rd  edition  of  the 
National  Formulary  amounts  to  $9699.06." 
The  most  important  report  presented  at  the  session  was  that  of 
the  Committee  on  National  Formulary  which  was  read  by  W.  L. 
Scoville  and  which  will  be  found  on  p.  465  of  this  Journal. 
Reports  from  the  following  were  also  received :  Committee  on 
National  and  State  Legislation,  Oscar  Oldberg,  Chairman ;  Com- 
mittee on  President's  Address,  Joseph  W.  England,  Chairman ; 
Reporter  on  Progress  of  Pharmacy,  C.  Lewis  Diehl ;  Committee 
on  the  Bulletin,  H.  P.  Hynson,  Chairman ;  Committee  on  Status  of 
Pharmacists  in  the  Army,  Navy  and  Public  Health  and  Marine 
Hospital  Service  of  the  Lmited  States,  George  F.  Payne. 
The  following  resolution  on  the  appointment  of  a  committee  on 
standards  of  non-official  drugs  and  chemical  products  was  offered 
by  Professor  J.  H.  Beal  and  after  some  discussion  adopted : 
Resolved: 
1.  There  shall  be  a  standing  committee  of  the  Council  to  be 
known  as  the  Committee  on  Standards  of  Non-official  Drugs  and 
Chemical  Products,  consisting  of  fifteen  members  elected  by  the 
Council,  but  the  members  of  such  Committee  need  not  be  members 
of  the  Council. 
2.  The  first  Committee  shall  be  constituted  as  follows :  two  repre- 
sentatives from  firms  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  pharmaceuti- 
