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MINUTES  OF  THE 
pared  the  dies  for  an  appropriate  medal,  and  that  medals  be  struck  there- 
from in  gold,  silver  and  bronze,  one  of  each  description  to  be  awarded 
annually,  to  three  persons  respectively  most  deserving  for  general  ser- 
vice and  usefulness  to  the  Association.  The  medals  to  be  distributed  by 
ballot  of  the  members,  on  the  last  day  of  each  Annual  Meeting  of  the 
Association. 
We  would  recommend  that  the  Committees  on  Scientific  Queries,  on 
the  Drug  Market,  and  on  Business,  be  made  Standing  Committees,  since 
they  are  equally  permanent  and  important  with  those  now  called  Stand- 
ing Committees.  These  Committees  have  grown  into  importance  with 
the  growth  of  the  Association,  (and  no  doubt  the  list  will  be  hereafter 
further  extended),  and  upon  their  action  in  a  very  large  degree  depends 
the  interest  and  success  of  the  Association. 
This  would  involve  a  slight  change  in  Article  IV.  of  the  Constitution, 
which  now  provides  for  the  election  of  only  two  Standing  Committees. 
Sections  should  be  added,  explaining  and  defining  the  duties  of  these 
Committees. 
Before  closing  this  report,  the  Committee  is  reminded  of  a  sad  duty  it 
is  called  upon  to  perform.  It  is  that  of  recording  the  names  of  members 
deceased  since  our  last  meeting. 
During  the  past  year,  several  of  our  associates  have  been  taken  from 
our  midst :  of  such,  the  following  names  have  been  reported  to  the  Com- 
mittee : 
Franklin  Bache,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
John  Meakim,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
George  W.  Weyman,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
[As  the  death  of  all  these  Members  has  been  noticed  in  this  Journal 
except  G.  W.  Weyman,  we  omit  that  part  of  the  report  relating  to  them.] 
George  W.  Weyman  was  born  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  March  22d,  1832. 
He  was  placed  in  the  Western  University  of  Pennsylvania,  at  Pittsburgh, 
where  his  early  education  was  sufficiently  advanced,  and  from  there  went 
to  Yale  College  in  1849,  where  he  pursued  his  studies  in  the  Chemical 
School  until  September,  1852.  Early  in  the  following  year  he  went  to 
Germany,  and  became  a  student  in  the  Laboratories  of  Munich  and  Got- 
tingen,  taking  the  degree  of  Ph.  D.  On  his  return  to  the  United  States 
in  1856,  he  spent  a  short  time  with  Prof.  Silliman  at  Yale,  and  then  re- 
paired to  his  native  city,  to  put  into  practice  the  store  of  useful  know- 
ledge he  had  acquired  under  such  favorable  circumstances.  He  opened 
a  laboratory  anel  Pharmaceutical  store  combined,  in  which  he  prosecuted 
the  business  successfully,  until  his  life  was  termined  by  severe  and  rapid 
illness  on  the  16th  of  June,  1864.  Dr.  Weyman  was  much  esteemed  by 
the  Members  of  this  Association,  which  he  joined  in  1858,  and  of  which, 
at  the  time  of  his  death,  he  was  one  of  the  Yice  Presidents.  Cut  off  at 
32  years  of  age,  in  the  prime  of  his  early  manhood,  his  loss  is  deeply  de- 
