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in  the  habits  of  druggists,  apothecaries  and  physicians  has  occurred.  The 
members  of  each  of  these  occupations  appear  to  better  understand  their  mutual 
relations,  and  in  a  majority  of  cases,  we  find  them  adhering  to  their  legitimate 
business.  Most  of  the  physicians  who  started  in  either  branch  of  the  drug 
business,  have  found  it  impossible  to  go  on  smoothly  and  profitably  with  both 
professions  ;  and  those  druggists  and  apothecaries  who  were  addicted  to  the 
practice  of  prescribing  at  the  counter,  have  found  it  to  their  interest  to  abandon 
the  habit,  observing  that  the  well  educated  physicians  were  adopting  the  system 
of  separating  the  two  departments  of  prescribing  and  compounding  medicines." 
Mr.  Simmons  further  remarks  on  the  increased  attention  to  convenience  and 
elegance  in  the  pharmaceutical  stores,  and  considers  that  a  large  proportion  of 
them  will  compare  favorably  with  those  of  the  Atlantic  States,  and  more  atten- 
tion is  given  to  the  qualifications  of  employees.  Indeed,  one  of  the  San 
Francisco  stores  is  arranged  in  the  most  costly  and  elegant  manner.  The  dis- 
pensing spatulas  are  of  gold  and  silver,  attached  to  the  store  is  a  fine  laboratory 
and  a  suite  of  rooms  apportioned  into  library,  sitting  and  consulting  apartments, 
for  the  special  benefit  of  medical  gentlemen,  forming  a  kind  of  Exchange  where 
Physicians  may  interchange  their  views,  consult  the  best  or  latest  authorities,  or 
otherwise  spend  their  time.  The  entire  building  is  supplied  with  gas,  and  an 
Artesian  well  in  the  rear  furnishes  an  abundance  of  water. 
The  excessive  cost  of  advertising  has  proved  a  difficulty  in  the  way  of  intro- 
ducing new  quackery,  and  it  is  only  the  older  varieties,  known  at  home  to  the 
people,  that  are  much  sought." — Editor.] 
On  motion,  it  was  resolved,  that  the  unofficinal  formula  com- 
municated by  Messrs.  Mathews  of  Buffalo,  Cummings  of  Maine, 
and  Meakim  of  New  York,  be  preserved  by  the  Secretary,  with 
a  view  to  publication  should  future  similar  contributions  accu- 
mulate sufficiently  to  justify  it. 
After  the  reading  of  a  letter  from  the  New  York  delegation  to 
the  late  President,  giving  the  reasons  for  their  inability  to  be  pre- 
sent, the  meeting  adjourned  to  8  o'clock  to-morrow  morning. 
July  26th,— -8  o'clock,  A.  M. — The  Association  met  and  ac- 
cepted an  invitation  from  the  Cincinnati  College  of  Pharmacy 
to  visit  their  Cabinet,  located  in  the  Museum  rooms  of  the  Miami 
Medical  College.  The  Collection  of  East  India  drugs  and  other 
specimens  is  quite  numerous.  A  valuable  series  of  the  Cinchona 
barks  of  Peru  and  Columbia  is  embraced  in  it ;  the  whole  including 
chemical  and  botanical  items,  numbering  more  than  eight  hundred 
specimens,  neatly  enclosed  in  bottles  and  boxes,  and  labelled. 
Before  returning  to  the  Hall,  the  members  were  gratified  in 
visiting  the  new  steam  fire  apparatus  belonging  to  the  city  of 
Cincinnati,  and  the  invention  of  one  of  her  citizens. 
At  half  past  10  o'clock,  A.  M.,  the  President  took  the  Chair, 
and  the  minutes  of  the  previous  meeting  were  read  and  adopted. 
Dr.  Guthrie,  as  Chairman  of  the  Committee  "  on  the  Collection 
and  Arrangement  of  the  Statistics  of  Pharmacy  in  the  United 
States,"  read  a  sub-report  by  Joseph  Laidley  of  Richmond,  on 
