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American  Pharmaceutical  Association. — By  referen^je  to  the  Announce- 
ment of  President  Kiersted  at  page  377,  our  readers  will  find  that  the  Annual 
Meeting  of  the  Association  for  1861  has  been  postponed  until  1862.  This 
step  has  been  taken  only  after  much  inquiry  and  reflection  as  to  the  best 
course  to  be  pursued.  A  few  were  favorable  to  holding  a  meeting  in  one 
of  the  eastern  cities,  in  order  to  keep  up  the  regular  annual  publication, 
but  by  far  the  larger  proportion  of  members  approved  of  the  postponement 
in  accordance  with  the  wishes  of  our  St.  Louis  members.  The  Chairman 
of  the  Executive  Committee  feels  at  liberty  to  print  the  following  document 
in  support  of  the  official  announcement  of  the  President : 
St.  Louis,  May  23d,  1861. 
Prof.  William  Procter,  Jr., 
Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  th"!  American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
Dear  Sir : — In  reply  to  yours  of  19th  May,  respecting  the  opinion  of 
members  in  St.  Louis  in  regard  to  holding  the  meeting  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association  in  St.  Louis  in  the  month  of  August,  1861, 
we  would  most  respectfully  recommend  that  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  to  be  held  in  the  city  of  St.  Louis, 
in  the  month  of  August,  1861,  be  postponed  until  the  year  1862,  for  the 
following  reasons : 
First — Believing  St.  Louis  would  be  as  acceptable  to  the  majority  of 
the  many  members  as  any  other  city,  still  we  have  reasons  to  believe  that 
many  would  not  attend,  from  the  political  troubles  of  the  country. 
Secondly — Believing  that  many  of  the  members  who  have  important 
reports  to  make,  could  not,  under  the  excitement  of  the  country,  devote 
the  time  upon  them  that  they  otherwise  would  have  been  able  to  do, 
therefore  the  meeting  would  lack  one  of  its  most  interesting  features. 
And  further,  there  will  be  but  few  of  the  members  that  can  well  afford 
the  expenses  in  attending  the  Convention. 
In  view  of  the  above,  we  w^uld  most  respectfully  petition  the  postpone- 
ment of  the  meeting  until  1862. 
Most  respectfuly  yours, 
EUGENE  L.  MASSOT,  Chairman. 
THOS.  KALB, 
ENNO  SANDER, 
SAML.  D.  HENDEL, 
THOMAS  SCOTT, 
Executive  Committee  of  the  St.  Louis  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
In  the  earnest  hope  that  our  political  troubles  will  subside,  w^e  have 
coincided  with  our  friends  in  this  measure  of  postponement,  although  at 
