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mittee,  while  not  as  important  during  the  past  year  as  during  the 
previous  year,  on  account  of  the  Legislature  not  having  been  in  ses- 
sion, was  commended  in  unqualified  terms,  and  it  was  stated  the 
work  done  by  the  Legislative  Committee  alone  should  constitute  a 
sufficient  reason  for  membership  in  the  association,  and  should  place 
solicitations  for  membership  on  a  business  basis,  apart  from  any 
question  of  sentiment.  The  recommendations  which  were  enume- 
rated at  the  close  of  the  President's  address  were  as  follows  : 
That  part  of  one  session  be  set  aside  for  addresses  by  Prof.  J.  P. 
Remington,  Prof.  C.  B.  Lowe  and  others  on  the  subject  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association  ;  that  the  Pennsylvania  Phar- 
maceutical Association  draw  up  resolutions  of  support  to  the 
N.A.R.D.,  and  that  an  order  be  drawn  upon  the  Treasurer  for  the 
amount  of  the  per  capita  tax,  basing  the  figures  on  the  membership 
as  it  existed  on  January  1st;  that  the  pharmacy  laws  be  so  amended 
that  a  certificate  for  registered  manager  be  granted  only  to  graduates 
of  such  colleges  of  pharmacy  as  belong  to  the  American  Conference 
of  Pharmaceutical  Faculties  ;  and  that  a  resolution  be  passed  in  favor 
of  the  Mann  H.  R.  bill  on  patent-law  revision  and  favoring  a  reduc- 
tion of  the  tax  on  alcohol. 
The  President's  address  was  then  referred  to  a  committee  consist- 
ing of  Messrs.  Cliffe,  Gorgas,  Dice,  Siegfried  and  Ballinger,  with 
instructions  to  report  on  the  recommendations  contained  therein. 
Prof.  J.  A.  Koch,  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Papers  and 
Queries,  then  assumed  charge  of  the  meeting,  and  a  number  of 
papers  were  read.  Mr.  C.  N.  Boyd,  of  Butler,  Pa.,  read  a  paper  on 
the  typhoid  epidemic  by  which  that  city  was  recently  attacked,  and 
related  some  amusing  occurrences  of  the  erroneous  ideas  which  some 
of  the  natives  of  the  rural  districts  formed  of  the  germs  during  the 
excitement  attendant  upon  the  examination  of  the  various  sources 
of  the  water-supply.  He  stated  that  one  farmer  was  heard  to  remark 
that  when  he  arrived  at  the  top  of  the  hill  overlooking  the  town  on 
that  morning,  he  saw  swarms  of  "  gems  "  arising  from  the  town. 
(It  had  happened  to  be  a  foggy  morning.)  Another  said  that  he  had 
never  believed  in  those  germs  because  he  had  often  looked  for  them 
and  had  never  seen  any  until  a  day  or  so  before,  when  he  had  seen 
three  in  a  glass  of  water,  adding,  that  "  they  were  about  as  big  as 
potato  bugs." 
Professor  Remington  then  read  a  paper  on  the  subject  of  "  The  Di- 
