494  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {AnocJtoberaKm' 
HISTORICAL  COMMITTEE. 
The  meeting  under  the  auspices  of  the  Historical  Committee  was 
called  to  order  by  President  Hopp  in  the  club-room  of  the  Coates 
House,  on  the  evening  of  September  6,  1904.  After  a  few  prelimi- 
nary remarks  the  report  of  the  chairman,  Edward  Kremers,  was 
called.  This  consisted  largely  of  an  outline  report  of  the  work  that 
had  been  accomplished  during  the  past  year,  and  also  contained  a 
number  of  suggestion  for  work  in  the  future. 
S.  A.  D.  Sheppard  spoke  of  a  scrap-book  that  he  had  prepared 
while  local  secretary  for  the  meeting  of  the  A.Ph.A.  held  in  Boston, 
Mass.,  in  1875.  This  scrap-book  contains  practically  a  complete 
history  of  that  meeting  from  the  preliminary  announcement  to  the 
reports  of  the  meeting  as  published  in  the  drug  journals  of  that 
time. 
Henry  M.  Whelpley,  of  St.  Louis,  referred  to  some  material  that 
he  had  collected  in  connection  with  the  meeting  of  the  A.Ph.A.  in 
St.  Louis  in  1901,  and  also  in  connection  with  the  semi-centennial 
meeting  held  in  Philadelphia  in  1902.  In  connection  with  this, 
Professor  Whelpley  exhibited  a  volume  containing  autograph  re- 
plies to  letters  of  invitation  that  had  been  sent  to  a  number  of  men 
prominently  connected  with  pharmacy  in  several  parts  of  the  world. 
Professor  Whelpley  also  showed  a  scrap-book  containing  a  large 
number  of  photographs  taken  by  him  at  the  several  meetings  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association  that  he  had  attended. 
A.  E.  Ebert  exhibited  a  number  of  letters  written  by  the  late 
Prof.  Wm.  Procter  and  also  intimated  that  he  was  anxious  to  secure 
others  if  available. 
William  Procter,  the  Father  of  American  Pharmacy. 
By  John  F.  Hancock,  Baltimore. 
In  this  paper  the  author  described  in  outline  the  life  and  accom- 
plishments of  that  eminent  pharmacist.  In  this  connection  Mr. 
Hancock  proposed  that  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion undertake  the  erection  of  a  suitable  monument  in  the  grounds 
of  the  Smithsonian  Institution  at  Washington. 
The  Cultivation  of  the  Opium  Poppy  in  the  United  States. 
By  W.  O.  Richtmann,  Washington. 
The  author  in  the  course  of  this  interesting  paper  referred  to  the 
