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EDITORIAL. 
€5itorial  ^Department. 
Meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association-.— This  im- 
portant body  will  convene  this  year  in  New  York.  So  far  as  can  be  now 
judged,  the  indications  are  favorable  to  a  large  and  interesting  meeting. 
It  is  desirable  that  members  should  make  a  little  sacrifice  to  get  there,  and 
those  who  are  not  members  should  take  advantage  of  this  opportunity  to 
join  the  Association,  to  mingle  with  our  New  York  brethren,  and  visit  the 
attractions  of  the  great  commercial  metropolis.  The  following  is  a  copy 
of  the  Treasurer's  annual  circular  : 
Boston,  August  11th,  1860. 
The  next  meeting  of  the  Association  will  be  held  on  the  second  Tuesday  of 
September  (11th),  1860,  at  3  o'clock,  P.  M.,  at  the  Hall  of  the  University 
Buildings,  on  Washington  Square,  New  York  City. 
The  Lafarge  House,  673  Broadway,  convenient  to  the  Hall,  has  been  se- 
lected as  the  rendezvous  of  the  Association,  when  not  in  session,  and  the  home 
of  those  not  residents  of  New  York,  ample  accommodations  for  the  purpose 
having  been  secured  by  our  New  York  friends,  at  a  reduction  from  usual 
rates. 
All  members,  and  persons  intending  to  become  members,  are  requested  to 
report  themselves  at  the  Hall  of  the  University  Buildings,  Washington  Square, 
and  at  the  Hotel. 
Members  are  requested  to  forward  the  names  of  their  friends  whom  they 
wish  to  propose  for  membership,  so  that  they  may  be  elected  at  the  first  ses- 
sion of  the  next  meeting. 
Members  will  confer  a  favor  by  notifying  the  Treasurer  of  the  decease  of  any 
member  during  the  last  year. 
Suitable  arrangements  will  be  made  for  the  exhibition  of  specimens  at  the 
meeting. 
From  the  manifestly  increasing  interest  in  the  Association,  a  large  attend- 
ance is  expected,  and  it  would  be  very  gratifying  to  meet  every  member,  and 
all  Pharmaceutists  who  are  interested  in  our  objects. 
Ashel  Boyden,  Treasurer, 
Myrtle,  tor.  Joy  Street,  Boston. 
Dr,  Coates'  Address.— In  noticing  a  part  of  this  Address,  as  our  record 
will  show,  we  did  not  intend,  much  less  expect,  to  excite  the  display  of 
feeling  and  asperity  manifested  in  the  following  letter.  The  author,  wholly 
misunderstanding  the  tenor  and  spirit  of  our  criticism,  has  allowed  himself, 
we  fear,  to  be  influenced  by  the  spirit  that  he  fancied  had  dictated  our  remarks; 
and  no  doubt  honestly  feels  himself  aggrieved.  As  we  hate  injustice,  and 
do  not  like  even  to  be  misunderstood  as  countenancing  it,  we  are  induced 
to  admit  the  letter  to  our  pages,  (much  against  our  sense  of  its  necessity,)  as 
the  author  has  desired  it:  but  we  accompany  it  with  the  statements — 1st, 
that  there  is  but  one  editor  of  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy ;  2d, 
