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C.  Lewis  Diehl,  of  Louisville,  Ky.  The  standing  committees  (Executive,  on  Drug. 
Market,  on  Papers  and  Queries,  on  Business,  on  Prize  Essays  and  on  Legislation) 
were  likewise  elected.  The  President  and  Vice  Presidents  present  were  introduced 
to  the  meeting,  and  on  taking  the  chair  Mr.  Luhn  expressed  his  thanks  for  the  honor 
conferred  upon  him,  and  promised  to  use  his  best  endeavors  to  advance  the  cause 
and  increase  the  membership  of  the  Association. 
The  Treasurer  read  his  annual  report,  accounting  for  receipts  during  the  past 
year  amounting  to  $5, 313. 49,  the  disbursements  being  $4,451.18,  leaving  a  balance 
of  $862.31  in  his  hands.  The  report  was  referred  to  an  auditing  committee,  consis- 
ting of  Messrs.  J.  L.  Lemberger,  of  Pa.,  B.  F.  Morse,  of  S.  C,  and  G.  W.  Sloan,, 
of  Ind. 
The  following  annual  reports  were  read  and  referred  :  Of  the  Committees  on 
Drug  Market,  on  Prize  Essays,  on  Legislation  and  the  report  on  the  Progress  of  Phar- 
macy. Mr.  Kennedy  reported  on  the  Centennial  fund  that  the  committee  had 
collected  only  $163,  but  that  the  Secretary  of  the  local  committee  had  informed 
him  that  the  time  in  which  to  make  up  the  whole  amount  of  $525  would  be 
extended  for  another  year. 
The  Association  then  proceeded  to  examine  the  specimens  on  exhibition,  and 
adjourned  afterward  until  2.30  o'clock. 
Third  Session. — After  the  reading  and  approval  of  the  minutes,  Mr.  Kennedy- 
read  the  report  of  the  Executive  Committee  in  relation  to  the  proposed  discontinu- 
ance of  the  exhibitions  in  connection  with  the  annual  meetings.  The  report  was 
in  favor  of  continuing  the  exhibitions,  but  proposed  some  regulations  with  the  view 
of  excluding  objectionable  articles,  and  to  embody  these  regulations  in  the  By-Laws. 
The  report  was  accepted  and  the  consideration  postponed  to  the  next  session,, 
when  they  were  adopted.  These  regulations  invite  manufacturers  and  others  to 
exhibit  crude  drugs,  chemicals,  pharmaceutical  preparations,  chemical  and  pharma- 
ceutical apparatus  and  utensils,  and  objects  of  general  scientific  and  special  pharma- 
ceutical interest.  The  following  articles  will  not  be  admitted  :  Proprietary  and  patented 
medicines,  medicinal  or  pharmaceutical  preparations  the  names  of  which  have  been 
copyrighted  or  the  complete  working  formula  of  which  is  withheld,  and  such  chem- 
ical preparations  or  mixtures  which  are  offered  under  other  than  scientifically  recog- 
nized names.  The  report  on  the  exhibition  shall  include  such  comments  as  in  the 
judgment  of  she  committee  may  be  deemed  proper. 
The  report  of  Mr.  Chas.  Rice,  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  the  Revision  of 
the  Pharmacopoeia,  was  read  and  referred,  and  resolutions  of  thanks  were  passed 
to  the  Hon.  Wm.  M.  Evarts,  Secretary  of  State  of  the  United  States,  to  the  diplo- 
matic officers  of  the  United  States,  and  to  all  those  gentlemen  who  have  extended! 
aid  to  the  committee.  The  resignation  of  Mr.  Rice  as  chairman  of  the  committee,, 
tendered  on  account  of  impaired  health,  was  accepted  with  regret. 
Mr.  Kennedy  read  a  paper  on  pharmaceutical  preparations  of  coca,  suggesting  a. 
fluid  extract  of  coca  to  be  prepared  from  the  powdered  leaves  by  exhausting  them 
with  a  mixture  of  three  measures  of  strong  alcohol  and  one  measure  of  water  ;  also  an- 
elixir  of  coca  made  by  percolating  4  troyounces  of  powdered   coca  leaves  with  70 
