sStembe^S™"}    American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  477 
future  to  adopt  some  means  of  protecting  the  retailer  in  obtaining  the  full 
retail  price  set  by  the  proprietors  on  their  products.  The  Secretary  was  finally 
instructed  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  the  communication,  and  to  state  that 
the  Association  did  not  see  fit  to  appoint  the  committee  suggested.  The  Com- 
mittee on  Chairman's  Address  approved  the  measures  proposed  therein.  The 
report  was  received  and  the  recommendations  adopted.  The  following  officers 
were  nominated  and  elected  for  the  ensuing  year  : 
Chairman,  Joseph  Jacobs,  Atlanta,  Ga. ;  Secretary,  J.  Hal.  Bobbett,  Raleigh, 
N.  C;  Associate  Members,  N.  A.  Kuhn,  E.  C.  Bent  and  H.  F.  Hassebrock. 
When  he  came  to  be  installed,  Mr.  Jacobs  was  loath  to  accept  the  chairman- 
ship, and  told  the  Association  he  thought  they  were  doing  just  the  opposite  of 
what  they  had  been  proposing  to  do  but  a  few  minutes  before  ;  that  he  was  an 
arch-cutter,  and  was  proud  of  the  fact,  and  that  the  Association  had  better 
reconsider  his  election.  Still,  he  said,  if  it  was  the  intention  of  the  Association 
to  kill  the  Section,  they  had  taken  the  necessary  means. 
Messrs.  Mayo,  Ebert  and  Stewart  replied  to  Mr.  Jacobs,  and  assured  him 
that  the  Association  had  elected  him  in  a  full  consciousness  of  his  beliefs 
and  methods ;  they  acknowledged  that  the  Section  had  not  done  in  the  past 
what  it  was  intended  to  do,  and  stated  that  was  the  reason  for  trying  a  chair- 
man who  held  opposite  views. 
Mr.  Jacobs  accepted  after  much  hesitancy,  and  promised  to  do  the  best  he 
could  in  his  peculiar  position. 
A  vote  of  thanks  was  given  the  retiring  officers,  and  the  Section  adjourned, 
subject  to  call  of  the  Chair. 
In  the  evening,  President  Cyrus  Northrup,  of  the  University  of  Minnesota, 
delivered  an  address  on  Education.  On  Thursday,  August  26th,  the  Ladies' 
Auxiliary  conducted  a  trolley  tour  of  Minneapolis  and  St.  Paul,  for  the  visit- 
ing ladies  and  their  escorts.  The  party  left  Hotel  Lafayette  at  8  a.m.  Lakes 
Harriet  and  Minnetonka  were  included  in  the  itinerary,  lunch  was  served  on 
the  beautiful  grounds  of  the  State  University,  and  in  the  afternoon  Como  and 
other  points  of  interest  within  the  borders  of  the  saintly  city  were  viewed. 
On  account  of  this  excursion,  when  Chairman  Alpers  called  the  first 
session  of  the  Scientific  Section  to  order,  at  9.40  a.m.,  only  a  dozen 
members  of  the  Association  were  in  attendance.  Mr.  Geo.  B.  Kaufmann 
was  elected  Secretary  pro  tern.  On  account  of  the  small  attendance,  the 
reading  of  the  Chairman's  address  was  postponed  until  the  evening  session. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Indicators  was  then  presented.  It  was  as  fol- 
lows : 
Mr.  Chairman  and  Members  of  the  Associatioyi : — The  third  report  of  the  Committee  con- 
sists principally  of  some  results  obtained  by  certain  of  the  workers  who  were  dissatisfied  with 
some  of  their  data  in  last  year's  report.  Prof.  J.  U.  Lloyd  and  the  Chairman,  after  comparing 
their  results  reported  at  the  Montreal  meeting,  decided  to  repeat  the  work  for  coca  leaf  and 
its  fluid  extract.  This  it  was  concluded  should  be  done  on  about  the  same  date  and  in  the 
same  manner.    The  Chairman  prepared  the  material  and  forwarded  it  with  instructions. 
FLUID  EXTRACT  OF  COCA  LEAF. 
For  assaying  this  preparation  the  directions  of  the  committee,  as  reported  in  the  Proceed- 
ings for  1896,  were  adhered  to,  employing,  however,  enough  of  the  fluid  extract  to  make  six 
or  seven  determinations  from  the  same  extraction,  so  that  there  would  be  no  source  of 
error  here. 
Titrations  were  executed  only  with  chlorophyll-free  (nearly)  alkaloids,  using  the  most  satis- 
factory indicators,  viz. :  Brazil  wood,  cochineal  and  hsematoxylon. 
