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t       Nov.,  1881. 
and  lack  of  rain  at  the  time  extending  over  a  great  portion  of  the  North 
American  continent  made  the  sojourn  in  a  new  city  not  very  enjoyable 
With  the  thermometer  usually  in  tlie  nineties,  with  little  shade  and  plenty 
of  dust  in  the  hilly  streets,  the  situation  was  not  excessively  attractive ; 
but,  notwithstanding  the  grumbling  complaints  about  the  arrangements 
jDi'ovided  by  the  weather  clerk,  the  party  enjoyed  themselves  as  well  as 
could  be  done  under  the  circumstances  and  bore  the  molestations  inciden- 
tal to  a  continuous  sweltering  atmosphere  with  commendable  good  humor. 
In  the  meeting-room,  the  members  found  it  somewhat  conducive  of  com- 
fort to  div^t  themselves  of  their  ordinary  coats  and  sit  with  their  thin 
linen  dusters  on,  and  even  these  it  was  in  some  cases  found  desirable  to  lay 
aside. 
Tlie  Kansas  City  meeting  being  the  first  at  which  the  newly  created 
Council  was  in  active  duty,  the  members  of  this  body  were  well  provided 
for  with  work  between  the  sessions;  all  that  were  present  at  tlie  meeting 
attended  to  their  duties  with  good  will  and  with  laudable  energy,  relieving 
the  Association  of  most  of  the  routine  business  which  formerly  occupied 
so  much  valuable  time.  The  effect  of  this  relief  was  noticed  in  the  dis- 
cussions on  the  papers  read,  which  were  fuller  than  at  many  previous 
meetings  and  would  have,  doubtless,  been  still  more  participated  in  but 
for  the  enervating  influence  of  the  solar  heat. 
Before  sunset  on  Wednesday,  August  24tli,  the  pharmacists  of  Kansas 
City  took  the  visiting  ladies  and  members  to  a  drive  through  the  city  and 
its  environs,  affording  an  opportunity  of  viewing  the  industrial  and  com- 
mercial enterprises  and  the  rapid  growth  of  this  important  place,  and  the 
improvements  undertaken  in  various  directions. 
On  Thursday  evening  the  visitors,  in  response  to  an  invitation  by  the 
local  pharmacists,  attended  a  reception  in  the  rooms  of  the  Board  of  Trade, 
where  the  exhibition  of  drugs,  chemicals,  apparatus  and  other  objects  of 
pharmaceutical  interest  was  in  progress,  partook  of  the  bountiful  collation 
and  enjoyed  themselves  as  well  as  possible. 
Taking  all  circumstances  into  consideration  and  notwithstanding  the 
Western  pharmacists  were  not  quite  as  largely  represented  as  had  been 
anticipated,  the  meeting  was  a  decided  success  and  doubtless  productive  of 
much  good.  The  papers  read,  of  which  we  have  given  a  synopsis  in  our 
last  number,  were  mostly  of  more  than  passing  interest;  scientific  and 
practical  information  was  well  brought  out,  and  interest  in  pharmaceutical 
matters  and  in  the  national  association  was  thoroughly  awakened  in  a  sec- 
tion of  the  country  that  had  thus  far  not  witnessed  a  gathering  of  pharma- 
cists from  nearly  all  parts  of  the  country. 
An  excursion  farther  west  had  been  planned  by  the  Pharmaceutical 
Association  of  the  adjoining  State  of  Kansas.  Its  destination  was  Santa 
F^,  New  Mexico  ;  but  since  on  this  trip  the  mountain  region  of  Colorado 
was  not  reached,  another  excursion  to  the  latter  State  was  arranged,  the 
partj'  being  increased  by  several  who  feared  the  possibility  of  being 
detained  in  New  Mexico  through  an  interruption  of  communication  by 
wash-outs  of  the  railroad  track,  which  had  repeatedly  occurred  during  the 
past  summer.    However,  a  party  numbering  about  one  hundred  left  Kan- 
