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PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 
John  Faber,  of  New  York,  read  an  interesting  paper  on 
"Manufacturing  Pharmacy,"  as  it  might  be  developed  in  the 
apothecary's  store.  The  views  given  in  the  essay  were  ad- 
vocated by  Dr.  Squibb  and  Edward  Parrish.  Dr.  Squibb  also 
remarked  on  the  tendency  that  selling  manufacturers'  galenical 
preparations  had  to  reduce  the  profession  of  pharmacy  to  mere 
shopkeeping  trade.    Mr.  Stearns  also  advocated  these  views. 
The  Committee  appointed  to  audit  the  Treasurer's  account, 
reported  that  they  had  discharged  their  duty,  and  find  that  the 
balance  of  cash  to  be  passed  to  debit  of  Treasurer's  account, 
for  the  current  year,  amounts  to  eighty-one  dollars  and  thirty- 
nine  cents. 
Edward  Parrish  presented  a  living  specimen  of  the  Benne 
plant,  from  the  garden  of  F.  Brown,  at  Burlington,  N.  J.,  illus- 
trative of  a  paper  on  the  culture  of  Benne  as  an  agricultural 
product  for  its  seed  and  oil.  He  also  exhibited  and  explained 
a  new  gas  furnace,  peculiarly  adapted  to  evaporation,  and,  by  an 
additional  contrivance,  to  processes  requiring  high  temperature. 
It  was  moved  and  carried,  that  when  we  adjourn  it  shall  be 
till  to-morrow  morning  at  9j  o'clock. 
The  Executive  Committee  having  recommended  the  name  of 
Wai.  H.  Page,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  as  a  candidate  for  mem- 
bership, a  ballot  was  ordered,  and  his  election  was  reported  by 
the  tellers. 
William  Procter,  Jr.,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Subjects 
for  Investigation  the  ensuing  year,  reported  a  list  of  queries, 
with  the  names  of  gentlemen  accepting  them,  which  was  read, 
and  the  report  left  open  for  further  additions,  when  the  Com- 
mittee should  report  finally.    (See  page  514.) 
On  motion,  the  subject  continued  last  year  to  Henry  A. 
Tilden,  on  the  comparative  value  of  foreign  and  indigenous 
narcotic  plants,  was,  in  compliance  with  the  request  of  that 
gentleman  in  a  letter  to  the  Association,  continued  to  him 
another  year. 
Frederick  Stearns  offered  the  following: 
Resolved,  That  this  Association  will  not  accept  any  report  or  scientific 
paper,  written  by  a  member  or  contributed  by  one  not  a  member,  which 
has  been  previously  printed  and  distributed. 
Which  was  adopted, 
