602  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {AmDJe0cU,ri87h8!r,a" 
Mr.  Eli  Lilly,  of  Indianapolis,  was  nominated  and  d-uly  elected  local  secretary. 
The  Committee  on  the  President's  address  and  Secretary's  report  reported  a  series- 
of  resolutions  which  were  adopted,  expressing  the  thanks  of  the  Association  to  the 
publishers  of  "  New  Remedies  "  and  of  the  "  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy  "  for 
their  courtesy  in  loaning  wood  cuts  for  the  volume  of  Proceedings,  and  to  Mr.  G. 
J.  Carney,  of  Lowell,  Mass.,  for  defraying  one-half  of  the  expenses  of  the  portrait 
of  his  brother.  The  delegates  present,  as  well  as  those  who  may  be  accredited  to 
future  meetings,  were  requested  to  hand  to  the  secretary  the  names  and  address  of 
the  president  and  secretary  of  the  Association  represented  by  them  for  publication 
in  the  Proceedings. 
On  motion  of  Mr.  Saunders  it  was  resolved  that  when  the  Association  again 
meets  in  the  Southern  States  the  meeting  should  take  place  during  the  spring 
months. 
The  Business  Committee  presented  several  valuable  papers  by  Prof.  A.  B. 
Prescott,  which  had  been  prepared  for  the  use  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  Committee,, 
and  are  entitled  Morphiometric  process  for  opium,  Valuation  of  tincture  of  opium.  Sep- 
aration and  quantitative  estimation  of  the  cinchona  alkaloids,  and  Purification  of 
strychnia  from  brucia.    The  papers  were  referred  for  publication. 
The  propositions  of  the  Committee  on  Ways  and  Means  were  called  up  for  consid- 
eration as  amendments  to  the  by-laws,  but  after  some  discussion  the  members  were 
evidently  not  prepared  to  vote  thereon,  and  the  proposed  amendments  were  ordered 
to  be  printed  and  made  the  special  order  of  business  for  the  the  third  session  of  the 
27th  annual  meeting.  The  committee  favors  the  accumulation  of  a  permanent  fund 
from  fees  which  may  be  received  from  life  memberships,  and  proposes  a  graded  fee 
for  those  who  may  have  paid  their  annual  contributions  for  five  years  or  more* 
The  committee  further  proposes  that  at  each  annual  meeting,  if  necessary,  a  per- 
capita  tax  shall  be  levied  and  collected  to  cover  estimated  deficiencies,  as  may  be 
determined  by  the  Auditing  Committee.  Life  members  shall  be  furnished  with  the 
Proceedings  upon  application  to  the  Secretary. 
The  Association  then  adjourned  until  Friday  morning  at  9  o'clock. 
Sixth  Session.— A  large  number  of  fluid  extracts  were  exhibited  illustrative  of 
the  results  detailed  in  Prof.  Diehl's  paper.  A  paper  on  percolation,  written  by  Mr. 
E.  A.  Joy,  was  referred  to  the  Pharmacopoeia  Committee.  In  view  of  the  inability 
of  several  members  of  this  committee  to  participate  actively  in  the  work  of  revising 
the  Pharmacopoeia,  on  motion  of  the  Business  Committee,  Messrs.  E.  H.  Sargent, 
J.  U.  Lloyd  and  L.  Dohme  were  appointed  in  place  of  Messrs.  Ebert,  Wayne  and 
Hancock,-  and  Mr.  Dohme  was  appointed  chairman  in  place  of  Mr.  Rice,  resigned. 
Mr.  Lloyd  desired  to  decline,  but  was  prevailed  upon  to  accept  the  appointment. 
Mr.  Lemberger,  on  behalf  of  the  committee  appointed  for  the  purpose,  submitted 
the  following  resolutions,  which  were  adopted  : 
Whereas,  This  Association  has  been  apprised  of  the  decease  of  Mr.  Thomas 
H.  Powers,  late  of  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  who,  although  not  a  member  of 
this  body,  has  become  endeared  to  us,  and  his  memory  deserves  a  suitable  tribute  at 
our  hands,  and  whilst  we  bow  with  submission  to  the  Divine  decree,  we  neverthe- 
less feel  a  painful  sadness  in  the  thought  that  one  whose  lifelong  devotion  to  the 
