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6.  Resolved,  That  the  report  of  the  Committee  embracing  the  proposed 
draft  of  a  law,  of  the  action  had  in  this  Association  upon  that  report,  and 
of  these  resolutions,  be  printed  in  pamphlet  form,  and  that  ten  copies  be 
sent  to  the  Governors  of  the  different  States  of  the  United  States. 
Dr.  Squibb  proposed  that  these  resolutions  should  be  taken 
up  seriatum,  and  his  view  was  agreed  to. 
The  first  resolution  was  then  adopted. 
Mr.  Wright,  of  New  York,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  the 
Drug  Law,  spoke  at  some  length,  giving  a  history  of  the  previous 
action  of  the  Association  relative  to  the  bill.  He  considered  the 
resolutions  of  Dr.  Squibb  as  ignoring  the  question  of  registra- 
tion, which  is  the  prominent  point  of  the  bill,  which  they  virtu- 
ally extinguished  and  laid  on  the  shelf. 
Mr.  Colcord  thought  the  Association  competent  to  deal  with 
the  subject  before  it  in  any  direction,  and  he  approved  of  the 
resolutions  as  embodying  the  sense  of  a  majority  of  the  members. 
The  second^  third  and  fourth  resolutions  were  then  adopted. 
Mr.  Merrill  very  much  doubted  the  truthfulness  of  the  fourth 
resolution.  lie  believed  that  accidents  happen  more  from  care- 
lessness and  inattention  than  from  ignorance,  and  that  they 
occur  more  frequently  with  those  who  know  better  than  with 
the  really  ignorant ;  nevertheless  he  believed  that  the  proportion 
of  accidents  now  is  not  greater  than  formerly,  and  that  it  is  the 
habit  of  newspapers  to  notice  them  more  than  formerly,  and  the 
rapidity  of  telegraphic  communication  gives  the  impression  of  a 
more  numerous  occurrence  of  these  accidents. 
The  fifth  resolution  was  then  adopted,  and  the  sixth,  relative 
to  sending  the  law  and  resolutions,  was,  after  some  discussion, 
also  adopted,  it  being  amended  to  read,  after  the  word  Governors, 
"and  the  Speakers  of  the  Legislatures,"  &c. 
The  Secretary  informed  the  meeting  that  he  had  just  received 
from  the  Montreal  Chemists'  Association  a  draft  of  a  law  which 
they  propose  to  recommend  for  enactment  in  Canada.  It  ap- 
pears, like  our  own,  to  be  based  on  the  English  Law. 
The  Business  Committee,  to  whom  the  Report  on  the  Progress 
of  Pharmacy  was  referred  for  consideration,  reported  that  the 
suggestions  of  Dr.  HolFman  appear  to  the  Committee  worthy  of 
the  careful  consideration  of  the  Association,  and  offered  the  fol- 
lowing resolutions  : — 
