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The  Resolution  as  amended  was  then  adopted.  The  number  of 
the  Committee  was  fixed  at  2,  and  Wm.  Procter,  Jr.,  and  G.  D. 
Coggeshall  were  appointed  by  vote  of  the  Association. 
C.  B.  Guthrie  moved  to  refer  the  remaining  part  of  the  report  on 
the  Inspection  of  Drugs,  to  the  Committee  just  appointed,  which 
was,  after  discussion,  withdrawn. 
H.  F.  Fish  proposed  the  following  : 
Resolved,  That  the  late  Circular  of  Instructions,  from  the  treasury 
department,  is  in  our  opinion  a  useful  one,  although,  in  many  of  its 
provisions  defective,  and,  as  regards  many  articles,  calculated  to 
substitute  ineffectual  modes  of  determining  quality  for  a  sound  and 
intelligent  judgment  founded  on  their  physical  characters,  and  that 
this  circular  be  referred  to  the  Committee  appointed  on  the  list  re- 
ported by  the  Committee. 
C.  B.  Guthrie  proposed  to  strike  out  all  after  "department"  and 
add — "  be  referred  to  the  Committee  of  Two,  just  appointed  to  be 
reported  upon,  with  such  amendments  as  they  deem  requisite,  at 
our  next  annual  meeting." 
The  amendment  and  resolution  as  amended  were  adopted. 
The  following  resolution,  [embodying an  opinion  of  the  Committee 
on  the  Inspection  of  Drugs,]  was  offered,  and  after  much  discussion 
decided  negatively  : 
Resolved,  That  we  believe  the  Drug  Law  was  never  designed  to 
exclude  foreign  secret  or  quack  medicines  through  the  Custom 
House,  nor  do  we  believe  this  justifiable  however  desirable. 
The  following  resolution  offered  by  William  B.  Chapman  of  Cin- 
cinnati, was  adopted  : 
Resolved,  That  the  next  annual  session  of  this  Association  be 
held  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  at  such  time  as  may  be  fixed  upon  by  the 
Association. 
Charles  T.  Carney,  of  Lowell,  Mass.,  being  recommended  by  the 
Committee  on  Credentials,  complied  with  the  rules,  and  was  consti- 
tuted a  member. 
Professor  Procter  offered  the  following  which  was  unanimously 
adopted. 
Resolved,  That  this  Association  have  heard,  with  unfeigned  re- 
gret, of  the  death  of  Jonathan  Pereira,  M.  D.,  of  London  ;  and, 
as  one  of  the  most  distinguished  and  able  Pharmacologists  of  his 
age,  we  esteem  his  death  a  serious  loss  to  the  cause  of  Pharmaceutical 
and  Medical  Science. 
Jos.  Laidley  offered  a  resolution,  which  was  amended  with  his 
consent  so  as  to  read : 
Resolved,  That  the  next  annual  meeting  of  this  Association  shall 
be  held  on  the  last  Tuesday  in  July,  1854,  at  11  o'clock,  A.  M. 
It  was  unanimously  adopted. 
Wm.  W.  Goodwin,  and  Peter  J.  Hazzard,  were  now  constituted 
