Am.  Jour.  Pliarm. ) 
Oct.,  1881.  J 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
507 
An  amendment  to  the  By-Laws,  offered  by  Prof.  Markoe,  requiring  the- 
officers  elect  to  take  their  places  at  the  opening  of  the  final  session  of  the 
annual  meeting,  was  laid  over  and  at  the  fifth  session  indefinitely  post- 
poned. 
After  the  appointment  of  a  Committee  on  Exhibition,  consisting  of 
Messrs.  A.  G,  Vogeler,  of  Chicago ;  T.  E,.  Baker,  of  Richmond,  Va. ;  J. 
D.  Wells,  of  Cincinnati;  J.  L.  Lemberger,  of  Lebanon,  Pa.,  and  C.  A. 
Weaver,  of  Des  Moines,  the  Association  adjourned  until  Wednesday 
morning  at  10  o'clock. 
Second  Session —  Wednesday  Morning^  August  24. 
After  the  reading  and  approval  of  the  minutes  of  the  first  session  and  of 
the  Council,  the  Nominating  Committee  made  their  report  and  the  follow- 
ing officers  were  duly  elected : 
President,  P.  W.  Bedford,  of  New  York.  Vice  Presidents — Emlen  Pain- 
ter, of  California ;  George  Leis,  of  Kansas ;  John  F.  Judge,  of  Ohio. 
Treasurer,  Charles  A.  Tufts,  of  New  Hampshire.  Permanent  Secretary^ 
John  M.  Maisch,  of  Pennsylvania.  Reporter  on  the  Progress  of  Phar- 
macy, C.  Lewis  Dielil,  of  Kentucky.  Also  the  following  ^Standing  Com- 
mittees :  On  Drug  Market — Louis  Lehn,  chairman,  of  New  York  ;  James 
G.  Steele,  of  California;  P.  C.  Candidus,  of  Alabama;  Thomas  Whitfield,, 
of  Illinois;  John  P.  Smith,  of  Maryland.  On  Papers  and  Queries — J.  IT. 
Lloyd,  chairman,  of  Ohio;  Starr  H.  Ambler,  of  New  York;  AViiliam  W.- 
Bartlett,  of  Massachusetts.  On  Prize  Essays — C.  Lewis  Diehl,  chairman, 
of  Kentucky;  John  F.  Judge,  of  Ohio;  Einil  SchefFer,  of  Kentucky. 
On  Legislation — John  M.  Maisch,  chairman,  of  Pennsylvania  ;  Samuel  A, 
D.  Sheppard,  of  Massachusetts;  Charles  Molir,  of  Alabama. 
Messrs.  Bullock,  of  Philadelphia,  and  Diehl,  of  Louisville,  were  appointed 
a  committee  to  conduct  the  President  elect,  and  Messrs.  Thompson,  of 
Washington  and  Saunders,  of  London,  Ont.,  a  committee  to  conduct  the 
Second  and  Third  Vice  Presidents  elect  to  their  places.  All  made  brief" 
addresses.    The  First  Vice  President  was  not  present  at  the  meeting. 
The  Council  reported  the  names  of  58  candidates  for  membership.  Ai& 
invitation  from  Toledo,  O.,  to  hold  the  next  annual  meeting  in  that  city  , 
was  received  and  referred. 
The  rej^orts  of  committees  being  in  order,  that  of  the  Committee  on  tlie- 
Drug  Market  was  read,  the  chairman,  Mr.  L.  Lehn,  giving  a  brief  account 
of  the  changes  in  the  supply  and  price  of  the  more  important  drugs  and 
chemicals  and  the  novelties  which  have  been  brought  to  the  notice  of 
the  medical  and  pharmaceutical  profession. 
The  report  on  Legislation  gave  a  brief  review  of  the  various  bills  relat- 
ing to  pharmacy  which  had  been  under  consideration  during  the  past 
year  in  several  States  aud  of  those  which  were  passed,  namely  :  a  poison, 
law  in  Arkansas,  pharmacy  laws  in  Connecticut,  Illinois,  Missouri,  North 
Carolina  and  West  Virginia,  and  food  and  drug  adulteration  laws  in  Mich- 
igan, New  Jersey  and  New  York. 
The  Committee  on  Membership  reported  on  their  efforts  made  during 
the  past  year.  In  a  rei)ort  made  by  the  Secretary,  attention  was  directed 
to  unimportant  clerical  alterations  of  Chapter  IX,  Article  III,  section  5  of 
the  By-Laws^  to  avoid  misconstruction  ;  also  to  a  misprint  in  the  Proceed- 
ings for  1879,  when  the  financial  year  was  ordered  to  commence  January 
1st,  instead  of  June  1st  as  there  printed.    The  Secretary  also  read  the  tele- 
