^Tptember^iS?1"}    American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  503 
will  be  necessary  for  the  members  of  the  reporting  committee,  and  all  others 
interested,  to  do  active  work  whenever  it  is  thought  wise  to  bring  the  subject 
forward  for  consideration. 
Many  of  the  new  members,  as  well  as  some  of  the  old,  will  have  to  be  con- 
vinced of  the  advantages  to  be  gained  by  making  the  metric  system  the  legal 
system  in  this  country. 
Although  there  has  been  very  little  that  the  committee  could  do  during  the 
past  year,  the  members  thereof  are  ready  to  take  active  interest  in  the  matter 
whenever  there  appears  to  be  an  opportunity  for  securing  favorable  consider- 
ation of  the  subject. 
The  report  was  received  and  referred  to  the  Publication  Committee. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Status  of  Pharmacists  in  the  Army  and  Navy 
was  next  presented.  Chairman  Payne  reported  that  there  were  three  bills  bearing 
on  the  subject  in  the  House  of  Representatives,  and  that  the  outlook  is  far  more 
encouraging  than  ever  before.  The  report  was  received  and  referred  to  the 
Publication  Committee  ;  the  reporting  committee  was  ordered  to  be  continued, 
and  a  vote  of  thanks  was  given  it.  The  Chairman  of  Council  reported  that 
there  had  been  no  change  in  the  investment  of  the  funds  of  the  Associa- 
tion, and  that  the  present  funds  were  invested  in  4  per  cent,  trust  companies' 
debenture  bonds.  Mr.  Kennedy  moved  that  the  Local  Secretary  of  next  year's 
meeting  be  made  Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Arrangements,  with  authority 
to  appoint  the  other  members  of  the  committee.  The  motion  was  carried. 
The  delegates  to  the  National  Wholesale  Druggists'  Association  were  ordered 
to  report  in  writing  to  the  General  Secretary.  The  delegates  to  the  American 
Medical  Association  then  made  their  report  through  their  Chairman,  Dr.  F.  B. 
Stewart.  The  following  subjects  were  referred  to  the  Section  on  Materia 
Medica,  Pharmacy  and  Therapeutics  of  the  American  Medical  Association  by 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  its  last  annual  meeting,  held  in  the 
city  of  Montreal  :  Liquor-selling  in  drug  stores  ;  dismissal  of  Spiritus  Frumenti 
and  Spiritus  Vini  Gallici  from  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  ;  dismissal  of 
Vinum  Rubrum  and  Vinum  Album  from  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  ; 
dismissal  of  all  tinctures  having  a  fluid  extract  of  the  same  drug  official,  and 
all  fluid  extracts  having  a  tincture  of  the  same  drug  official,  and  substitute 
for  such  tinctures  and  fluid  extracts  50  per  cent,  tinctures  under  a  distinctive 
title  ;  and  the  return  to  potassium  sulphate  as  a  diluent  in  making  Dover 
Powder,  in  place  of  sugar  of  milk,  used  since  1880.  The  Section  concurred  in 
the  dropping  of  liquors  from  the  Pharmacopoeia,  and  in  the  restoration  of 
potassium  sulphate,  but  did  not  agree  to  the  other  changes. 
The  report  was  received,  accepted  and  referred  to  the  Publication  Committee. 
The  Committee  on  Time  and  Place  of  Next  Meeting  reported  that  the  Associa- 
tion would  convene  on  the  last  Monday  of  August,  1898,  in  Baltimore,  Md.  Sec- 
retary Caspari  then  read  a  communication  from  the  South  Carolina  Pharmaceuti- 
cal Association,  in  the  form  of  a  telegram,  expressing  the  best  wishes  of  that  Asso- 
ciation. He  also  read  invitations  from  Galveston,  Tex.,  and  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  for 
the'Association  to  hold  its  meetings  in  these  respective  places.  The  Secretary 
was  authorized  to  reply  to  all  of  these  courtesies.  An  acknowledgment  by 
Prof.  J.  U.  Lloyd,  on  behalf  of  the  Lloyd  Library,  of  the  receipt  of  the  various 
books  from  the  libraries  of  the  Association,  and  from  some  of  its  members,  was 
read,  received  and  referred  to  the  Publication  Committee.  Mr.  Alpers  then 
presented  the  following  resolution  : 
