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PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 
the  hands  of  each  of  the  Colleges  and  Associations  here  representee! 
a  sufficient  number  of  copies  for  preservation  and  future  use. 
This  was  put  to  vote,  and  lost. 
A  motion  was  made  directing  it  to  be  left  to  the  discretion  of  the 
Executive  Committee,  what  papers  introduced  in  connection  with 
the  proceedings  shall  be  published.    This  was  lost. 
It  was  on  motion  resolved  to  take  up  the  various  reports  and 
documents  on  file,  with  a  view  to  determine  whether  they  shall  or 
shall  not  be  published. 
The  report  of  the  Executive  Committee  was  on  motion  referred 
for  publication.  The  statistical  reports  introduced  by  that  Com- 
mittee were  referred  to  the  Executive  Committee  of  this  year  to 
publish  so  much  as  may  seem  to  them  best. 
A  motion  that  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Inspection  of 
Drugs,  without  the  list  accompanying  it,  should  be  referred  for 
publication,,  was  lost. 
On  motion  it  was  Resolved,  that  so  much  of  Dr.  Bailey's  letter  as 
relates  to  statistical  information  with  regard  to  the  importarion  of 
drugs,  be  published. 
On  motion  it  was  Resolved,  that  Dr.  James  V.  Z.  Blaney's  letter 
be  published. 
On  motion,  the  report  on  the  Sale  of  Poisons  was  referred  for 
publication. 
On  motion  it^was  Resolved,  that  the  samples  of  medicinal  herbs 
of  home  growth,  prepared  for  the  Massachusetts  College  of  Phar- 
macy, and  by  them  exhibited  to  this  Association,  indicates  an  im- 
provement in  the  preparation  of  this  class  of  medicines,  highly 
commendable. 
[The  specimens  alluded  to  in  this  resolution,  were  grown  and  dried  byMr.T. 
S.  Athei  ton,  of  the  United  Society  of  Harvard,  Massachusetts.  The  leaves,  such 
as  digitalis,  henbane,  etc.,  were  deprived  of  the  cruder  parts,  broken  up,  and  en- 
closed in  corked  quart  bottles,  without  being  pressed  in  cakes.  This  plan  of 
getting  up  medicinal  plants,  especially  those  of  an  odorous  or  fugitive  character, 
is  very  commendable,  and  when  well  done  will  render  them  much  less  changeable 
by  keeping. — Editor  Am.  Jour.  Ph.] 
The  President  resumed  the  chair. 
The  following  was  offered  by  C.  A.  Smith,  and  unanimously 
adopted  : 
Resolved,  That  our  Committee  on  Pharmaceutical  Education  be 
requested  to  report  at  our  next  annual  meeting  on  the  expediency 
of  endeavoring  to  obtain  such  Congressional  action  as  would  compel 
all  Special  Examiners  of  drugs  and  medicines  to  be  either  graduates 
of  pharmacy,  or  to  receive  a  certificate  of  qualification  for  such 
office  from  some  College  of  Pharmacy  recognised  as  such  by  this 
Association. 
A  letter  received  through  George  D.  Coggeshall  from  John  Mea- 
kim,  of  New  York,  on  the  subject  of  local  formulae,  was  read  ;  and 
