AMERICAN   PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION.  487 
The  policy  of  increasing  the  amount  of  our  annual  contributions  for  the 
purpose  of  extending  our  publications,  and  awarding  prizes  for  papers  of 
merit,  is  a  subject  worthy  your  attention  at  this  time.  Should  you  decide 
to  retain  the  present  amount  of  two  dollars  as  our  annual  contribution, 
and  publish  only  for  our  own  members,  and  public  libraries,  the  benefits 
to  our  profession,  being  confined  more  within  ourselves,  might  operate  as 
an  inducement  to  membership;  but,  a  more  enlarged  view  would  be  to 
increase  the  amount  and  value  of  our  publications  by  offering  liberal 
prizes  for  meritorious  articles,  and  a  wider  distribution  of  them. 
Should  the  value  of  the  Proceedings  increase  as  it  has  done  for  two  years 
past,  the  sale  of  the  work  ought  to  meet  any  deficiency  in  its  publication. 
Of  its  sale  the  past  year,  the  Executive  Committee's  report  will  give  you  the 
necessary  information. 
It  is  to  be  regretted  that  so  many  errors  should  have  occurred  in  its 
publication — owing,  chiefly,  to  imperfect  manuscript:  in  one  instance  to 
derangement  of  type  before  printing.  Doubtless  some  errors  occur  in  our 
list  of  members,  although  very  carefully  revised.  Omissions  have  heretofore 
been  liable  to  occur  in  consequence  of  the  roll  being  made  up  from  the 
records  and  memorandums  of  the  Secretary,  Executive  Committee  and 
Treasurer. 
Some  course  should  be  adopted  by  which  only  finished  papers  should 
be  presented  and  go  directly  to  the  Publishing  Committee  at  the  close  of 
the  meeting. 
If  the  movers  of  all  resolutions,  orders,  motions  and  amendments  would 
put  them  in  writing,  it  would  be  a  great  assistance  to  the  Secretary,  and 
enable  him  to  have  an  accurate  record,  approved  for  the  Publishing 
Committee  at  the  close  of  the  meeting. 
I  can  see  no  reason  why  our  "  Proceedings "  should  not  be  published 
within  thirty  days  after  adjournment. 
The  Executive  Committee  will  lay  before  you  a  report  of  their  labors. 
The  amount  of  time  and  care  required  by  the  Chairman  of  this  Committee 
would  seem  to  require  the  employment  of  some  suitable  person  as  an 
assistant  in  editing  the  "  Proceedings  ;  "  but,  as  yet,  no  such  expense  has 
been  incurred,  and  the  amount  of  labor  gratuitously  performed  by  the 
Chairman  of  this  Committee  is  deserving  the  warmest  thanks  of  this 
Association  ;  and  anv  suggestions  made  by  this  Committee  are  deserving 
of  great  weight  in  your  deliberations,  as  the  actual  working  of  the 
Association,  during  the  recess,  is  mainly  confined  to  them. 
Next  year  will  complete  the  first  decade  of  our  existence  as  an  institu- 
tion. I  would  recommend  the  appointment  of  some  person  to  make  a 
general  index  of  all  our  previous  publications,  to  be  published  with  our 
next  volume. 
Committee  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy. — It  has  occurred  to  me  that 
the  labors  of  this  Committee  cover  so  wide  a  field,  that  to  divide  its  duties 
