AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
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They  also  recommended  that  members  write  their  papers  on  foolscap 
paper  to  enable  the  Secretary  to  file  them  away  in  accordance  with  Art. 
3d  Section  4  of  the  Constitution. 
[The  Eeport  proposes  several  alterations  in  the  Constitution  in  relation 
to  the  admission  of  members ;  to  the  annual  payment ;  to  the  withdrawal 
of  members  ;  and  to  the  duties  of  the  Executive  Committee,  but  space 
does  not  allow  of  their  notice  here.] 
We  deem  it  expedient  to  say  a  few  words  with  regard  to  the  financial 
prospects  of  the  Association.  The  heavy  expenses  for  publishing  the 
last  Proceedings  could  only  be  met  by  the  prompt  payment  of  the  annual 
contributions  of  the  current  year,  and  of  the  debts  of  some  members  in- 
curred in  past  years.  It  is  more  than  probable  that  very  little  revenue 
will  be  derived  hereafter  from  this  latter  source,  nearly  all  who  allowed 
their  bills  to  accumulate  for  four  years  or  more,  and  who  feel  any  interest 
in  the  cause  of  Pharmacy  having  paid  up.  Each  year  a  number  of  mem- 
bers by  becoming  life  members  become  exempt  from  dues,  and  if  hereafter 
we  allow  no  one  to  leave  his  dues  unpaid  for  more  than  two  years,  we  can 
henceforth  calculate  only  on  the  new  acquisitions  to  our  number.  If  we 
admit  the  annual  expenses  to  be  $1200,  it  will  require  an  average  addition 
of  48  members  annually,  which  the  committee  think  within  the  limits  of 
probability.  No  further  taxing  of  life  members  will  be  necessary  if  we 
only  carry  out  our  laws.  But  in  case  any  unforseen  emergency  should 
arise,  a  clause  might  perhaps  be  added  to  the  Constitution,  enabling  an 
extra  tax  to  be  levied  on  all  members  alike  at  any  annual  meeting,  such 
tax  to  be  paid  by  the  1st  of  January  following.  We  have  no  doubt  that 
an  additional  assessment  would  be  willingly  paid  by  each  member,  if  the 
Association  would  express  the  necessity  for  it. 
Gradually  as  the  blessings  of  peace  continue,  our  expenses  will  be  again 
less,  and  the  time  may  come  when  we  shall  be  enabled  to  offer  prizes  for 
original  investigations  if  deemed  proper. 
Before  closing  the  report,  the  sad  duty  remains  to  be  performed  of 
announcing  the  names  of  those  of  our  associates  whom  death  has  removed 
from  among-st  us  as  far  as  we  have  heard. 
G.  C.  Wilson,  of  Boston,  Mass. 
Wm.  Gay,  Cambridgeport,  " 
D.  F.  White,  Charlestown,  " 
W.  F.  Clency,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Frederick  L.  John,  Phila.,  Pa. 
Frederick  Rollman,  Phila.,  Pa. 
N.  Cressman,  Waterloo,  C.  W. 
Lewellyn  Phillips,  Baltimore,  Md. 
William  Longshaw,  Jr.,  Bayou  Sara, 
La. 
[We  have  not  space  for  the  obituary  notices,  and  omit  them.] 
The  report  was  on  motion  accepted. 
A  Committee  on  Nominations  was  now  appointed,  according 
to  Constitutional  provision,  by  the  delegations  and  the  President, 
- — viz.  : 
George  C.  Close,  of  New  York,  E.  L.  Massot,  of  St.  Louis, 
