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discovery  and  invention,  and  encouraging  home  production  and  manufacture  in  the  several  de- 
partments of  the  drua;  business. 
4th.  To  regulate  the  system  of  apprenticeship  and  employment  so  as  to  prevent,  as  far  as 
practicable,  the  evils  flowing  from  deficient  training  in  the  responsible  duties  of  preparing,  dis- 
pensing and  selling  medicines. 
5th.  To  suppress  empyricism,  and  as  much  as  possible  to  restrict  the  dispensing  and  sale  of 
medicines  to  regularly  educated  druggists  and  apothecaries. 
Article  II. — Of  the  Members. 
Section  1.  Every  pharmaceutist  or  druggist  of  good  moral  and  professional  standing,  whether 
in  business  on  his  own  account,  retired  from  business  or  employed  by  another,  who,  after  duly 
considering  the  objects  of  the  Association  and  the  obligations  of  this  Constitution,  is  willing  to 
subscribe  to  them,  is  eligible  to  membership. 
Section  2.  The  mode  of  admission  to  membership  shall  be  as  follows  :  Any  person  eligible  to 
membership  may  apply  to  any  member  of  the  Executive  Committee,  who  shall  report  his  appli- 
cation to  the  said  Committee.  If  after  investigating  his  claims  they  shall  approve  his  election, 
they  shall  at  the  earliest  time  practicable  report  his  name  to  the  Association,  and  he  may  be 
elected  by  two  thirds  of  the  members  present,  on  ballot.  Should  an  application  occur  in  the  recess, 
the  members  of  the  Committer  may  give  their  approval  in  writing,  which,  if  unanimous,  and 
endorsed  by  the  President,  shall  constitute  him  a  member,  and  the  fact  be  reported  to  the  Associa- 
tion at  the  next  succeeding  meeting. 
Section  3.  No  person  shall  become  a  member  of  this  Association  until  he  shall  have  signed  the 
Constitution,  and  paid  his  annual  contribution  for  the  current  year  All  persons  who  become 
members  shall  be  considered  as  permanent  members,  but  may  be  expelled  for  improper  conduct 
by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  the  members  present  at  any  annual  meeting. 
Section  4.  Every  member  shall  pay  into  the  hands  of  the  Treasurer  the  sum  of  two  dollars  as 
his  yearly  contribution,  and  is  liable  to  lose  his  right  of  membership  by  neglecting  to  pay  said 
contribution  for  three  successive  years.  Members  shall  be  entitled,  on  the  payment  of  three  dol- 
lars, to  receive  a  certificate  of  membership  signed  by  the  President,  Vice-President  and  Secretary, 
covenanting  to  return  the  same  to  the  proper  officer  on  relinquishing  their  connection  with  the 
Association. 
Section  5.  Every  local  Pharmaceutical  Association  shall  be  entitled  to  five  delegates  in  theanniml 
meetings,  who,  if  present,  become  members  of  the  Association,  on  signing  the  Constitution,  with- 
out being  ballotted  for. 
JOHN  L.  K1DWELL,  President. 
Georgetown,  D.  C,  June  25th,  1859. 
€5it  odd  13  ep  ailment. 
Meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association. — It  is  pre- 
sumed that  Pharmaceutists  generally  are  by  this  time  aware  that  the  As- 
sociation meets  at  Boston  on  the  13th  of  September.  From  the  indications 
so  far  apparent,  we  believe  the  meeting  will  be  large  and  interesting. 
The  time  is  a  favorable  one  for  travel — the  season  of  fruits — of  abundance. 
Our  Boston  friends  are  wide  awake,  as  the  following  circular  from  the 
Treasurer  will  evidence,  and  their  proverbial  hospitality  and  attention  to 
strangers  will  not  be  wanting  on  this  occasion. 
Boston,  August  13,  1859. 
Members  are  requested  to  forward  the  names  of  their  friends  whom 
they  wish  to  propose  for  membership,  so  that  they  may  be  elected  at  the 
first  session  of  the  next  meeting 
Members  will  confer  a  favor  by  notifying  the  Treasurer  of  the  decease 
of  any  member  during  the  last  year. 
Any  specimens  for  exhibition  may  be  forwarded  to  the  care  of  Cartek, 
Colcord  &  Preston,  Boston. 
The  next  meeting  of  the  Association  will  be  held  on  the  second  Tues- 
day of  September,  (13th,)  1859,  at  3  o'clock,  P.  M.,  at  the  rooms  of  the 
Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy,  Perkins  Building,  Temple  Place, 
Boston,  Mass. 
