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Appended  to  his  report  was  a  memorial  sketch  of  each  of  the  deceased  mem- 
bers. The  report  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Publication.  Secretary 
Whelpley,  of  the  Auxiliary  Committee  on  Membership,  made  a  motion  to 
extend  the  thanks  of  the  Association  to  the  Presidents  of  the  State  Associations 
and  to  Mr.  Huntington  for  their  interest  in  the  effort  to  increase  the  member- 
ship. Prof.  C.  Lewis  Diehl  read  the  introduction  to  his  Report  on  the  Progress 
of  Pharmacy.  The  report  was  received  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on 
Publication.  The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Revision  of  the  United  States 
Pharmacopoeia  was  called  for  and  read  by  title,  but  was  referred  to  the  Scien- 
tific Section  for  reading  in  full  and  discussion.  Treasurer  Sheppard  then 
read  his  report,  and  stated  that  the  cash  balance  in  the  treasury  this  year  was 
nearly  double  what  it  was  last  year.  He  suggested,  in  view  of  the  depressed 
condition  of  business,  that  the  resignations  of  the  delinquent  members  be 
received  instead  of  dropping  them  for  non-payment  of  dues.  The  Auditing 
Committee  found  the  report  to  be  correct,  and  it  was  received,  and  a  vote  of 
thanks  was  tendered  the  Treasurer  by  the  Association. 
The  General  Secretary  then  read  his  report,  which  dealt  with  the  financial 
accounts  in  his  hands,  and  the  publication  of  the  National  Formulary.  He 
reported  a  handsome  balance  on  hand  from  the  sale  of  the  National  Formulary. 
It  was  ordered  that  the  report  take  the  usual  course.  The  Committee  on  Publi- 
cation reported  on  last  year's  volume  of  Proceedings,  and  also  on  the  stock 
of  the  Proceedings  on  hand.    The  report  was  received. 
Mr.  Ebert  moved  that  the  General  Secretary  be  authorized  to  bring  to  the 
annual  meetings  a  number  of  unbound  copies  of  the  Constitution  and  By-Laws, 
and  of  lists  of  officers,  members,  places  of  meeting,  etc.,  for  the  use  of 
members  in  attendance.  Secretary  Caspari  then  read  the  report  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  General  Prizes  for  papers  presented  at  the  meeting  in  Montreal. 
The  first  prize  was  awarded  to  J.  W.  T.  Knox  and  A  B.  Prescott,  for  their  paper 
on  "The  Caffeine  Compound  in  Kola  ;"  the  second  to  S.  P.  Sadtler,  for  his  con- 
tribution entitled  "Some  Results  Obtained  in  the  Destructive  Distillation  of 
Linseed  Oil,  with  Remarks  on  its  Bearing  on  Engler's  Theory  of  the  Origin  of 
Petroleum  ;"  and  the  third  to  W.  O.  Richtmann  and  Edward  Kremers,  for  their 
article  on  "  The  Menthol  Group."    The  report  was  adopted. 
The  Committee  on  Ebert  Prize  awarded  it  to  Messrs.  Knox  and  Prescott,  for 
the  paper  previously  referred  to.  The  Committee  on  President's  address 
recommended  that  the  papers  contributed  to  the  meetings  of  the  State  Associa- 
tions be  secured  for  the  use  of  the  Reporter  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy  for 
abstracting  or  printing  in  full,  as  he  may  see  fit.  They  also  approved  of  the 
educational  measures  proposed  by  President  Morrison,  and  coincided  with  him 
on  the  subject  of  dropping  liquors  from  the  Pharmacopoeia.  Considerable  dis- 
cussion was  elicited  by  this  last  proposition,  and  was  participated  in  by  Messrs. 
Whitney,  Mayo,  Sheppard,  Ebert,  Eliel,  Torbett  and  Alpers.  The  report  of 
the  Committee  was  finally  accepted,  with  the  exception  of  the  proposition  to 
eliminate  liquors  from  the  Pharmacopoeia. 
The  twenty-two  new  applicants  for  membership  were  then  invited  to  com- 
plete their  membership,  which  they  did  by  signing  the  Constitution  and  paying 
the  annual  fee. 
The  Committee  on  Time  and  Place  of  Next  Meeting  submitted  three  reports 
in  favor  of  Baltimore,  Omaha  and  Richmond,  respectively.     The  majority 
