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EDITORIAL. 
Section  2.  The  mode  of  admission  to  membership  shall  be  as  follows :  Any  person  eligible  to 
membership  may  apply  to  any  member  of  the  Executive  Committee,  who  shall  report  his  appli- 
cation to  the  said  Committee.  If  after  investigating  his  claims  they  shall  approve  his  election, 
tbey  shall  at  the  earliest  time  practicable  report  his  name  to  the  Association,  and  he  may  be 
elected  by  two-thirds  of  the  members  present,  on  ballot.  Should  an  application  occur  in  the  recess, 
the  members  of  the  Committee  may  give  their  approval  in  writing,  which,  if  unanimous,  and 
endorsed  by  the  President,  shall  constitute  him  a  member,  and  the  fact  be  reported  to  the  Associa- 
tion at  the  next  succeeding  meeting. 
Section  3.  No  person  shall  become  a  member  of  this  Association  until  he  shall  have  signed  the 
Constitution,  and  paid  his  annual  contribution  for  the  current  year.  All  persons  who  become 
members  shall  be  considered  as  permanent  members,  but  may  be  expelled  for  improper  conduct 
by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  the  members  present  at  any  annual  meeting. 
Section  4.  Every  member  shall  pay  into  the  hands  of  the  Treasurer  the  sum  of  two  dollars  as 
his  yearly  contribution,  and  is  liable  to  lose  his  right  of  membership  by  neglecting  to  pay  said 
contribution  for  three  successive  years.  Members  shall  be  entitled,  on  the  payment  of  three  dol- 
lars, to  receive  a  certificate  of  membership  signed  by  the  President,  Vice-President  and  Secretary, 
covenanting  to  return  the  same  to  the  proper  officer  on  relinquishing  their  connection  with  the 
Association. 
Section  5.  Every  local  Pharmaceutical  Association  shall  be  entitled  to  five  delegates  in  the  annual 
meetings,  who,  if  present,  become  members  of  the  Association,  on  signing  the  Constitution,  with- 
out being  ballotted  for. 
Pharmaceutists  and  Druggists  desirous  of  membership,  can  make  application  to  any  of  the  offi- 
cers, or  obtain  any  information  from  them  respecting  the  Association.  Applications  for  member- 
ship should  be  in  the  hands  of  the  Executive  Committee  at  the  opening  of  the  first  session.  Reports 
of  Committees,  and  papers  presented  for  publication,  should  be  written  only  on  one  side  of  the 
paper,  and  corrected  for  the  printer. 
Ail  interested  in  the  objects  of  the  Association  are  invited  to  co-operate. 
SAM'L.  M.  COLCORD,  President. 
Boston,  June,  20th,  1860. 
The  Peninsular  and  Independent  Medical  Journal, — The  publishers 
of  this  Journal  have  announced  in  the  twelfth  number  of  the  second 
volume,  its  discontinuance,  on  the  score  of  not  having  paid  its  way.  We 
regret  this  result  the  more,  as  to  a  certain  extent  that  Journal  was  phar- 
maceutical, having  a  pharmaceutical  editor  and  a  special  department  for 
pharmaceutical  articles  ;  but  whilst  regretting  this  issue,  we  are  not  sur- 
prised, when  the  large  and  increasing  number  of  medical  periodicals  is 
considered. 
Cavendish  Society. — For  the  information  of  our  chemical  readers,  we 
reprint  from  the  Chemical  News  of  March  10th,  1860,  the  following  Report 
of  the  last  meeting  of  this  Society.  Subscribers  will  see  that  the  13th 
volume  of  Gmelin  is  to  be  the  only  book  for  1859,  and  those  who  wish  to  get 
it  should  send  in  their  subscriptions  ($5)  for  1859,  that  they  may  be  for- 
warded to  the  Society. 
The  Thirteenth  Anniversary  Meeting  of  the  Cavendish  Society  was  held 
at  the  rooms  of  the  Chemical* Society  Burlington  House,  on  Thursday  the  1st 
of  March,  at  3  o'clock,  P.  M. 
The  Master  op  the  Mint,  President,  in  the  Chair. 
The  Secretary  read  the  following  Report  of  the  Council  : 
In  the  last  Annual  Report,  the  Council  stated  that  the  thirteenth  volume 
of  Gmelin's  Handbook  of  Chemistry  was  then  in  progress,  and  was  intended  as  afc 
book  for  1859.  The  completion  of  this  volume  has  occupied  a  longer  time  than 
was  anticipated,  partly  in  consequence  of  the  editor  having  to  wait  for  a  por- 
tion of  the  German  edition  which  is  comprised  in  it,  and  partly  in  consequence 
of  the  extensive  additions  of  new  matter  which  had  to  be  made  in  the  form  of 
appendix'.    It  is  now  ready  for  distribution,  and  the  large  amount  of  matter  it 
