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shall  represent  the  delegated  power  of  the  association.  It  shall  elect  the  gen- 
eral officers  of  the  association  and  a  board  of  six  trustees,  and  shall  transact 
all  the  general  business  of  the  association  of  a  public,  professional,  scientific, 
or  of  other  character  that  is  not  otherwise  provided  for.  The  trustees  shall  be 
members  of  the  Council  without  the  right  to  vote. 
Article  IV.  The  officers  of  the  association  shall  be  an  honorary  president, 
a  president,  three  vice-presidents,  a  general  secretary,  a  treasurer,  a  reporter 
on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy,  and  an  editor  and  local  secretary,  all  of  whom 
shall  be  elected  annually  by  the  Council.  They  shall  hold  office  until  their 
successors  are  elected. 
Article  V.  Board  of  Trustees.  The  Board  of  Trustees  shall  have  charge  of 
the  property  and  of  the  financial  affairs  of  the  association.  Two  trustees  shall 
be  elected  annually  by  the  Council,  each  to  serve  a  period  of  three  years.  The 
president  shall  be  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  and  the  general  secretary 
and  treasurer  shall  be  members  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  without  the  right  to 
vote. 
Article  IV.  Change  to  Article  VI. 
Article  V.    Change  to  Article  VII. 
The  Committee  on  Reorganization  :  M.  I.  Wilbert,  C.  S.  N.  Hallberg,  Cas- 
well A.  Mayo,  Kugene  G.  Eberle  and  Edward  Kremers. 
Reports  were  also  received  from  the  Committee  on  Publicity,  E. 
H.  Gane,  chairman;  and  the  Committee  on  Public  Press,  Francis  B. 
Hays,  chairman. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Ebert  Memorial,  W.  M.  Searby, 
chairman,  was  referred  to  the  Council. 
A  resolution  proposed  by  Thomas  D.  McElhenie,  of  Brooklyn,  to 
the  effect  that  it  is  the  sense  of  the  association  that  medical  schools 
should  teach  and  make  more  use  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia,  either 
as  a  text-book  or  reference  book,  was  adopted. 
After  the  installation  of  the  new  officers,  President  William  M. 
Searby  appointed  delegates  to  the  annual  meetings  of  the  N.  A.  R. 
D.  and  the  N.  W.  D.  A.,  and  a  rising  vote  of  thanks  was  extended 
'to  the  Local  Entertainment  Committee,  with  special  mention  of  the 
arduous  labors  of  Thomas  P.  Cook,  as  chairman,  and  also  to  the 
pharmacists  of  New  York  and  their  ladies,  and  the  German  Apothe- 
caries' Society. 
Some  other  matters  were  also  considered,  after  which  the  meeting 
was  declared  adjourned. 
SECTION  ON  PRACTICAL  PHARMACY  AND  DISPENSING. 
H.  A.  B.  Dunning,  chairman  ;  Joseph  Weinstein,  secretary  ;  Franklin  M. 
Apple,  associate. 
This  Section  held  two  sessions,  one  Tuesday  afternoon  and  one 
Tuesday  evening.     No  less  than  twenty-seven  papers  were  on  the 
