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authority,  for  the  information. of  the  medical  public,  in  the  newspapers  and 
the  medical  journals  in  the  month  of  March,  1890. 
In  the  event  of  the  death,  resignation  or  inability  of  the  President  of  the 
Convention  of  1880  to  act,  these  duties  (in  accordance  with  the  resolution  of 
that  Convention)  shall  devolve,  successively,  in  the  following  order  of  pre- 
cedence: Upon  the  Vice-Presidents,  the  Secretary,  the  Asst.  Secretary,  and 
the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Eevision  and  Publication  of  the  Phar- 
macopoeia. These  officers  are  as  follows  :  First  Vice-President,  Samuel  C  • 
Busey,  M.  D.,  of  Washington,  D.  C;  Second  Vice-President,  P.  W.  Bedford, 
Ph.  G.,  of  New  York;  Secretary,  Frederick  A.  Castle,  M.  D.,  of  New  York  ; 
Assistant  Secretary,  C.  H.  A.  Kleinschmidt,  M.  D.,  of  Washington,  D.  C; 
Chairman  of  Committee  of  Revision,  Charles  Rice,  Ph.  D.,  of  New  York  ;  First 
Vice- Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Revision,  Joseph  P.  Remington,  Ph.  M.,  of 
Philadelphia,  Pa.;  Second  Vice- Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Revision,  C.  Lewis 
Diehl,  Ph.  G.,  of  Louisville,  Ky. 
At  the  General  Convention  held  in  Washington,  D.  C,  on  the  fifth  day  of 
May,  1880,  the  organizations  and  bodies  enumerated  in  the  Abstract  of  the 
Proceedings  of  the  National  Convention  of  1880,  on  pp.  xv.  to  xviii.  of  the 
U.  Si  Pharmacopoeia  of  1882,  were  recognized  as  being  entitled  to  representa- 
tion. * 
If  any  body  other  than  those  admitted  in  1880  shall  desire  a  representa- 
tion in  the  Convention  of  1890,  it  is  suggested  that  the  proof  of  incorporation, 
signed  by  the  Secretary  of  State,  of  the  State  which  shall  have  issued  the 
charter,  or  by  properly  qualified  public  officials  of  the  United  States,  be  pre- 
sented with  the  credentials  of  the  delegation. 
A  blank  form  of  certificate  of  appointment  of  delegates  will  be  sent  upon 
application  by  letter  to  my  address,  care  of  Dr.  Edwin  H.  Brigham,  Assist- 
ant Librarian  of  the  Boston  Medical  Library,  19  Boylston  Place,  Boston, 
Mass.  (Signed)  ROBERT  AMORY, 
President  of  the  Convention  q/1880. 
Boston,  March  9th,  1889.  . 
AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION 
The  thirty-seventh  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  As- 
sociation will  be  held  in  San  Francisco,  Monday,  June  24th,  first  session  at 
3  o'clock  P.  M. 
The  California  members  have  repeatedly  extended  an  invitation  to  the 
Association  to  meet  in  San  Francisco,  and  now  that  the  invitation  has  been 
accepted  it  is  earnestly  desired  that  every  member  will  make  an  effort  to 
attend. 
Excursions  and  round  trip  tickets  at  low  rates  have  been  arranged  for 
from  all  points.  Full  information  will  be  furnished  in  the  usual  annual 
circulars,  which  will  be  issued  by  the  Permanent  Secretary  early  in  May. 
The  California  State  Association  has  decided  to  hold  its  annual  meeting 
at  the  same  time  and  place  with  our  own,  which  will  largely  add  to  the 
number  and  interest  of  the  meeting. 
The  Exhibition,  notwithstanding  the  great  distance  and  cost  of  transpor- 
