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from  the  sales  of  the  National  Formulary  and  Decennial  Index, 
both  reports  showing  a  creditable  balance  in  hand. 
The  Nominating  Committee  presented  a  report  giving  a  list 
of  nominees  for  the  respective  offices,  which  list  will  be  submitted 
to,  and  voted  upon  by,  the  members  through  the  mails. 
The  Council  recommended  that  Professor  Dr.  Arthur  Meyer  of 
Marburg,  Germany,  and  Professor  Dr.  A.  Tschirch  of  Berne,  Switz- 
erland, be  made  Honorary  Members,  which  recommendation  was 
approved  by  the  Association  and  these  eminent  pharmacognosists 
were  accordingly  elected  as  honorary  members  of  the  Association. 
The  Committee  on  Membership  reported  that  during  the  year  216 
new  members  had  been  elected.  It  was  also  requested  that  in  the 
future  the  names  of  applicants  for  membership  be  submitted  to  their 
respective  State  representatives  upon  the  Committee  on  Membership 
for  approval,  before  being  voted  upon  by  the  Council.  An  applica- 
tion for  permission  to  form  a  Nashville  Branch  of  the  A.  Ph.  A. 
was  received  by  the  Council  and  granted.  A  motion  was  also 
passed  that  the  Association  have  official  numbered  buttons  in  lieu 
of  the  local  badges.  The  next  annual  meeting  will  be  held  in 
Boston  from  August  14th  to  18th,  191 1  and  C.  Herbert  Packard 
was  selected  by  the  Council  as  the  Local  Secretary. 
The  officers  of  the  Council  for  the  ensuing  year  are :  Chairman, 
James  H.  Beal ;  Vice-Chairman,  Henry  H.  Rusby ;  and  Secretary, 
Joseph  W.  England.  The  following  officers  of  the  Association 
whose  election  is  dependent  upon  the  recommendation  of  the  Coun- 
cil were  re-elected :  General  Secretary,  Charles  Caspari,  Jr. ; 
Treasurer,  H.  M.  Whelpley;  Reporter  on  the  Progress  of  Phar- 
macy, C.  Lewis  Diehl;  Editor  of  the  Bulletin,  C.  S.  N.  Hallberg. 
The  Historian,  a  permanent  officer  of  the  Historical  Section  was 
made  a  member  of  the  Council  Ex-officio.  George  M.  Beringer 
was  re-elected  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Unofficial  Standards 
and  the  following  new  members  were  elected:  C.  A.  Dye  (in  place 
of  G.  B.  KaufTmann)  ;  and  H.  H.  Rusby  (in  place  of  A.  I.  Cohn). 
One  of  the  most  important  steps  taken  by  the  Association  was 
the  approval  of  the  proposal  to  launch  the  Journal  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  the  first  number  of  which  is  to  appear 
in  191 1.  The  scope  of  the  Journal  is  to  include  editorial  comments, 
signed  editorials,  original  articles  and  abstracts  of  recent  literature 
relating  to  pharmacy.  It  was  decided,  also,  to  issue  the  Report 
on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy  at  the  end  of  each  fiscal  year  in  the 
