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PKOCEEDINGS  OF  THE 
the  state  of  Pharmacy  in  the  Southern,  Atlantic  and  Gulf  States, 
accompanied  by  tables  containing  much  valuable  information, 
which  will  prove  very  serviceable  to  future  inquirers.  The  sub- 
report  of  Dr.  Cummings,  on  the  state  of  Pharmacy  in  the  New 
England  States,  was  also  read,  detailing  many  deficiencies  in 
the  practice  of  Pharmacy  of  that  section,  and  attributing  a 
portion  of  them  to  the  illiberal  course  adopted  by  some  physicians. 
Dr.  Guthrie  continued  the  report  for  the  Western  States  verbal- 
ly, excused  the  physicians  of  that  region  from  any  unfriendliness 
to  pharmaceutists,  but  gave  ample  evidence  to  the  necessity  of 
pushing  measures  of  pharmaceutical  reform  in  those  States. 
The  Committee  on  Credentials  brought  forward  the  names  of 
J.  Y.  Whetstone  and  J.  W.  Hannaford  of  Cincinnati,  and  W.  E. 
Smith  of  Hillsborough,  Ohio,  who  were  duly  elected  members 
and  signed  the  Constitution. 
The  report  of  the  late  Corresponding  Secretary  was  read  and 
accepted. 
On  motion  of  Dr.  Guthrie,  it  was  resolved  that  this  Associa- 
tion recommend  to  the  several  Colleges  of  Pharmacy  and 
Pharmaceutical  Associations,  the  appointment  of  Committees  of 
Correspondence  from  their  own  bodies,  who  shall  address  the 
apothecaries  of  their  respective  sections  upon  the  objects  of  this 
Association,  for  the  promotion  of  its  designs. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  prizes  was  now  read  by  its 
Chairman,  C.  A.  Smith,  in  which  it  is  recommended,  that  in 
view  of  the  limited  finances  of  the  Association,  but  two  prizes  be 
offered  for  the  ensuing  year.  To  make  the  award  more  honor- 
able to  the  recipients,  it  was  determined  to  make  them  in  books 
rather  than  in  money.  The  two  following  resolutions  offered  by 
the  Committee  were  then  adopted. 
Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  twenty-three  volumes  of  the  Ameri- 
can Journal  of  Pharmacy  be  (and  hereby  is)  offered  for  the  best 
essay  which  shall  develope  the  commercial  history  of  all  drugs 
indigenous  to  the  United  States,  as  senega,  spigelia,  serpentaria, 
etc.,  as  regards  the  manner  and  places  of  their  collection  and 
preparation  for  the  supply  of  commerce,  the  amount  annually 
collected,  and  the  channels  through  which  they  enter  general 
commerce. 
Besolved,  That  a  copy  of  the  inorganic  portion  of  Gmelin's 
