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Life-membership  fund  $3700 — ;  but  the  market  value  of  each  $100  bond  was 
$123.25.  In  addition  to  the  bonds  a  small  cash  balance  remains  in  a  saving- 
bank  to  the  credit  of  each  fund.  The  association  subsequently  directed  $4000 
to  be  transferred  from  the  general  fund  for  permanent  investment,  to  the 
life-membership  fund. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Management,  contemplating  numerous 
changes  in  the  by-laws,  was  read  at  the  first  session,  and  then  laid  over  for 
further  consideration ;  it  was  printed  for  the  information  of  the  members 
present. 
The  second  session  was  held  on  Tuesday  morning,  and  after  a  recess,  con- 
tinued in  the  afternoon  of  September  6.  A  partial  report  was  presented  by 
the  Nominating  Committee,  and  the  following  officers  were  duly  elected  : 
President.    John  U.  Lloyd,  Cincinnati. 
Vice-presidents.  M.  W.  Alexander,  St.  Louis  ;  A.  K.  Finlay,  New  Orleans, 
and  Karl  Simmon,  St.  Paul. 
Treasurer.    S.  A.  D.  Sheppard,  Boston. 
Permanent  Secretary,  John  M.  Maisch,  Philadelphia. 
Reporter  on  Progress  of  Pharmacy,  C.  L.  Diehl,  Louisville. 
After  the  installation  of  the  officers,  the  reports  of  Standing  Committees 
on  Legislation  and  on  Prize  Essays  were  read,  the  latter  recommending  the 
Ebert  prize  to  be  awarded  to  Professor  Emlen  Painter  for  his  essay  on 
spirit  of  nitrous  ether  read  last  year  ;  the  recommendation  was  adopted. 
Messrs.  MacMahan,  Sloan,  Baker,  Good  and  Fennel  were  appointed  a 
committee  to  report  on  the  time  and  place  of  the  next  annual  meeting. 
Subsequently  Detroit  was  recommended  and  after  much  discussion,  this 
recommendation  was  adopted,  the  Council  being  requested  to  appoint  the 
time. 
Reports  were  also  presented  from  the  Committees  to  visit  the  National 
Wholesale  Drug  Association ;  on  the  introduction  of  foreign  medicinal 
plants;  on  national  formulary  of unofficinal  preparations  ;  and  on  resolu- 
tions presented  to  the  American  Medical  Association. 
The  recommendations  of  the  Committee  on  Management  were  next  con- 
sidered seriatim  and  adopted  with  little  or  no  alteration.  Considerable 
discussion  was  occasioned  on  the  manner  of  constituting  the  nominating 
committee.  A  proposition  was  made  to  have  the  members  of  this  commit- 
tee appointed  by  the  State  Associations  only,  ignoring  the  colleges  of  phar- 
macy, by  whom  the  Association  itself  was  organized.  Other  propositions 
favored  the  nominations  being  made  in  the  open  meeting,  or  the  returning 
to  the  practice  abandoned  in  1885,  to  give  to  each  association  of  pharmacists 
a  representation  on  the  nominating  committee.  Finally  it  was  agreed  that 
no  association  should  have  the  right  to  make  these  appointments,  but  that 
each  State  shall  be  represented  on  that  committee  by  two  members;  the 
manner  in  which  these  representatives  are  to  be  selected  was  not  stipulated, 
but  it  is  evident  that  the  plan  adopted  is  in  all  its  essential  features  the  same 
as  the  one  proposed  by  the  Squibb  in  1880,  which  had  the  additional  ad- 
vantage of  providing  for  the  manner  in  which  the  selection  was  to  be  made. 
Under  the  new  plan  a  State,  (or  territory  or  province),  will  be  entitled  to- 
