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liegislative  Committee,  giving  an  account  of  the  steps  taken  for  securing 
the  passage  of  tlie  pharmacy  law,  after  which  the  following  officers  Avere 
elected : 
President,  F.  C.  Bourscheidt,  Peoria.  Vice  Presidents — William  Bower, 
Olney;  A.  A.  Brown,  Sterling;  J.  P.  Henry,  Areola.  Secretary,  Mat.  W. 
Borland,  Chicago.    Treasurer,  A.  P.  Cunningham,  Champaign. 
In  recognition  of  his  services,  the  association  ordered  a  portrait  engrav- 
ing of  its  first  President,  W.  W.  Marmon,  for  the  Proceedings  in  1882. 
Chicago  was  selected  for  holding  the  next  annual  meeting  on  the  second 
Tuesday  in  October,  1882,  and  W.  M.  Dale  was  appointed  Local  Secretary. 
Reports  from  the  Committees  on  Drug  Trade,  on  the  President's 
Address,  on  Queries  and  on  a  Contested  Membership  w^ere  read  and 
f^onsidered.  Various  amounts  of  money  were  appropriated.  Mr.  E.  B. 
Stuart  read  a  paper  on  Rosanilin  as  a  Test  for  Alcohol  as  an  adulterant  in 
essential  oils,  showing  it  to  be  unreliable  under  ordinary  circumstances. 
The  following  honorary  members  were  elected :  H.  H.  Chandler,  Albert 
E.  Ebert,  Charles  B.  Allaire,  W.  P.  Colburn,  Charles  J.  Hurlbut,  John 
Birks,  G.  C.  Wheeler,  L.  A.  Lange,  E.  B.  Stuart  and  A.  G.  Vogeler. 
After  the  passage  of  resolutions  of  thanks  an  adjournment  was  had,  and 
in  the  evening  the  members  and  guests  sat  down  to  a  sumptuous  banquet 
at  the  Peoria  House. 
EDITORIAL  DEPARTMENT. 
The  Meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  at 
Kansas  City  was  well  attended,  the  unusually  low  railroad  fares  prevailing 
at  the  time  having  induced  many  members  from  the  Atlantic  States  to 
undertake  the  journey  to  the  place  of  meeting,  which  is  from  1,000  to  l,oOO 
miles  distant  from  their  homes.  Quite  a  number  of  ladies  had  joined  the 
parties  traveling  by  way  of  Buffalo,  Southern  Canada  and  Toledo,  or  by 
way  of  Washington,  Parkersburg  and  Grafton  to  St,  Louis  and  thence  to 
Kansas  City.  A  large  party,  going  by  way  of  Buffalo,  w^as  delayed  on  the 
way  in  consequence  of  a  strike  by  the  railroad  employees  and  did  not 
reach  St.  Louis,  as  contemplated,  on  Sunday  morning.  Those  taking  the 
Southern  route  were  hosj)itably  received  by  the  pharmacists  of  Cincinnati, 
where  they  enjoyed  the  comforts  of  the  Grand  Hotel.  Joined  by  the  Cin- 
cinnati members  and  their  ladies,  the  party  had  a  pleasant  journey  to  St. 
Louis,  where  excellent  accommodations  had  been  provided  at  the  new 
Southern  Hotel  and  where  they  were  the  recii)ients  of  the  lio«pitable  atten- 
tions of  the  pharmacists  of  St.  Louis. 
At  Kansas  City  no  one  hotel  was  large  enough  to  accommodate  all  the 
visitors,  but  all  were  well  taken  care  of  under  the  circumstances.  The 
Local  Secretary,  Mr.  Wm.  T.  Ford,  and  the  pharmacists  generally  of  the 
city  did  all  that  could  possibly  have  been  wished  and,  when  it  is  remem- 
bered that  none  of  them  had  ever  met  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation, their  attentions  and  those  of  the  citizens  of  the  place  of  meeting 
are  deserving  of  all  praise  ;  the  more  so,  since  the  unusually  hot  weather 
