474  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.    { As™ptJember S™* 
trict  of  Columbia,  Canada,  Bast  Africa,  arid  Paris,  France.  Every  State  and 
Territory  is  now  represented  by  membership  in  the  Association.  Mr.  Kennedy 
also  said:  "The  Treasurer,  Mr.  S.  A.  D.  Sheppard,  reports  that  on  July  I, 
1897,  241  delinquents  of  three  or  more  years,  were  liable  to  be  dropped  from  the 
roll.  This  is  a  very  large  number,  being  an  increase  of  thirty-two  over  the 
number  reported  last  year,  when  the  secretary  of  membership  made  a  state- 
ment that  the  number  reported  on  then  was  the  largest  since  he  has  filled  the 
office."  He  also  called  the  attention  of  the  meeting  to  the  excellent  work 
which  has  been  performed  by  W.  H.  Huntington,  apothecary  of  the  United 
States  Navy,  at  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  and  a  member  of  the  Association,  who 
had  secured  the  consent  and  annual  fee  in  advance,  and  had  endorsed  forty-one 
of  the  apothecaries  of  the  army,  navy  and  marine  hospital  service  of  the  United 
States.    The  following  tabulated  statement  of  membership  was  then  read  : 
Active  or  contributing  members  in  good  standing  at  last  report  1,448 
Members  elected  since  last  report   91 
Total  .  .  .\'   1,539 
LOSS  IN  MEMBERSHIP  (ACTIVE). 
By  resignation   35 
By  transfer  to  life  membership   13 
By  death     30 
Dropped  from  roll  for  various  causes   67 
Total  loss     145 
Number  on  the  roll  at  this  report  I>394 
EIFE  MEMBERSHIP. 
Number  on  the  roll  at  last  report   .......  95 
Number  added  since  last  report   13 
Total    .....      .     108 
LOSS  IN  EI  EE  MEMBERSHIP. 
By  death   6 
Number  on  the  roll  at  this  report   102 
HONORARY  MEMBERSHIP. 
Number  on  the  roll  at  last  report   15 
Loss  by  death   2 
Number  on  the  roll  at  this  report   13 
TOTAE  MEMBERSHIP. 
Active  or  contributing  members  I»394 
Life  members    102 
Honorary  members   13 
Total  •  1,509 
The  Secretary  also  reported  that  the  mortuary  record,  which  numbered 
-twenty-nine  deaths,  was  the  largest  that  he  had  yet  been  called  upon  to  report. 
