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of  the  Council  were  read  and  likewise  endorsed,  the  latter  giving  informa- 
tion of  the  election  of  111  new  members,  and  of  the  recommendation  of  the 
following  gentlemen  for  honorary  membership  :  Thos.  Greenish  of  London, 
Peter  Squire  of  London,  Jos.  Ince  of  London,  Geo.  F.  Schacht  of  Clifton, 
Bristol,  and  Rich.  Reynolds  of  Leeds,  England ;  Christian  Brunnengraeber 
of  Rostock  and  Carl  Schacht  of  Berlin,  Germany  ;  F.  von  Martensen  of  St. 
Petersburg,  Russia ;  Kicholas  Sinimberghi  of  Rome,  Italy ;  Michael  Car- 
teighe  and  G.  W.  Sandford  of  London. 
Credentials  from  the  Pharmaceutical  Association  of  Quebec  were  received 
and  the  delegates  admitted. 
The  committee  on  the  time  and  place  of  the  next  annual  meeting  recom- 
mended that  it  be  held  in  Washington,  D.  C,  on  the  tlrst  Tuesday  of  Sep- 
tember, 1883  ;  they  likewise  recommended  that  hereafter  the  Entertainment 
Committee  name  two  or  more  places  for  holding  the  next  meeting,  and  that 
the  Secretary  be  instructed  to  acknowledge  the  invitations  received  from 
Atlantic  City,  San  Francisco  and  New  Orleans.  The  recommendations 
were  adopted,  but  the  time  was  afterwards  changed  to  the  second  Tuesday 
of  September. 
Amendments  to  the  by-laws  previously  proposed  were  acted  upon  and 
adopted  ;  these  require  the  Council  to  examine  the  credentials  of  delegates 
previous  to  the  first  session,  the  credentials  to  be  sent  to  the  Permanent 
Secretary  at  least  two  weeks  in  advance  of  the  annual  meeting,  and  the 
publication,  in  the  Proceedings,  of  a  synopsis  of  the  Council  sessions. 
Mr.  Sheppard  spoke  warmly  in  favor  of  holding  a  meeting  in  San  Fran- 
cisco during  the  next  three  years.  Several  members  who  participated  in 
the  discussion  acknowledged  the  desirability  of  meeting  on  the  Pacific 
coast,  but  regarded  the  length  of  time  the  attending  members  from  the  East 
would  necessarily  have  to  be  absent  from  home,  and  the  expense  of  the 
journey  as  serious  obstacles.  However,  a  committee  consisting  of  Messrs. 
S.  A.  D.  Sheppard  of  Boston,  T.  Roberts  Baker  of  Richmond,  Va.,  and  J. 
S.  Evans  of  West  Chester,  Pa.,  was  appointed,  to  consider  this  matter  in 
all  its  relations  and  report  at  the  next  annual  meeting. 
The  motion  to  appoint  a  committee  of  five  to  attend  the  next  meeting  of 
the  Western  Wholesale  Druggists'  Association  at  Cleveland,  and  express 
the  sympathy  and  interest  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Association  in  their 
organization,  created  some  discussion,  resulting  in  the  adoption  of  the  reso- 
lution and  the  apioointment  of  Messrs.  W.  J.  M.  Gordon  of  Cincinnati, 
Chas.  Bullock  of  Philadelphia,  Wm.  Saunders  af  London,  E.  H.  Sargent  of 
Chicago,  and  E.  Shallentrager  of  Cleveland. 
On  Caffeine  in  Ouarana.—Mx.  J.  H.  Feemster  read  a  pai)er  on  this  sub- 
ject. The  author  first  examined  a  select  exami^le  of  seeds  which  proved  to 
contain  5'08  per  cent,  of  caffeine.  Five  samples  of  guarana  yielded  8-9,  4*2, 
4-2,  4-8  and  5-0  per  cent.,  or  an  average  of  4-32  per  cent,  of  the  alkaloid. 
Tlie  process  employed  was  that  of  Prof.  Wayne,  described  in  the  "  Amer. 
Jour.  Phar.,"  1875,  j).  135,  and  1877,  p.  337,  the  guarana  being  mixed  with 
an  excess  of  litharge  and  boiled  with  water  until  the  insoluble  matter  set- 
tles rapidly,  which  re(iuires  about  three  hours,  while  the  same  change 
takes  place  with  the  seeds  in  less  than  one  hour.  The  cause  of  this  differ- 
ence in  behavior  has  not  been  ascertained  ;  it  was,  however,  observinl  that 
