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Officer  at  Washington,  D.  C,  which  were  thankfully  accepted,  the 
Executive  Committee  being  directed  to  reproduce  these  documents  in 
the  forthcoming  Proceedings  for  the  general  information  of  the  Asso- 
ciation. 
The  Association  then  adjourned  into  the  exhibition  room,  and, 
guided  by  the  Committee  on  Specimens,  examined  the  various  inter- 
esting articles  on  exhibition. 
Third  Session —  Wednesday  Afternoon. 
The  minutes  of  the  second  session  having  been  read  and  approved, 
the  following  preamble  and  resolution,  offered  by  Dr.  E.  R.  Squibb, 
were  unanimously  adopted  : 
Whereas,  some  twenty  of  the  older  members,  after  having  been  repeatedly 
notified,  have  failed  to  respond  to  the  action  of  the  Association  in  regard  to  re- 
linquishing or  declining  to  relinquish  their  rights  to  life  membership ;  and 
whereas,  the  subject  of  life  membership  cannot  be  finally  disposed  of  while  such 
members  refuse  to  respond  to  the  notification  by  the  officers ;  therefore 
Resolved,  That  all  members  who  fail  to  notify  the  Treasurer  that  they  de- 
cline to  relinquish  their  right  to  life  membership  before  the  first  day  of  May 
next,  are  declared  hereby  to  have  relinquished  the  said  rights. 
The  following  papers  were  read  in  answer  to  queries  propounded 
last  year : 
No.  12.  On  the  production  of  milk  sugar  in  the  United  States,  by 
Jos.  L.  Lemberger,  of  Lebanon,  Pa. 
No.  13.  On  avoiding  the  pectinous  principle  from  senega  in  the 
syrup,  by  R.  Rother,  of  Chicago. 
No.  15.  On  tests  for  the  purity  of  the  volatile  oil  of  Erigeron  Can- 
adense,  by  E.  J.  Weeks,  of  Jackson,  Mich. 
No.  19.  On  hand  drug-mills,  by  Thos.  J.  Covell,  of  Jersey  City, 
N.  J.  The  author  gives  the  preference  to  that  manufactured  by 
Messrs.  Hance  Bros.  &  White,  of  Philadelphia. 
No.  23.  On  the  best  arrangements  for  the  dispensing  counter,  by 
John  F.  Hancock. 
No.  28.  On  the  quality  of  the  commercial  glacial  phosphoric  acid, 
by  Prof.  A.  B.  Prescott,  of  Ann  Arbor,  Mich. 
No.  31.  On  commercial  creasote,  by  Prof.  Enno  Sander,  of  St. 
Louis. 
Dr.  E.  R.  Squibb  read  two  interesting  papers,  entitled  "Note  on 
Aconite  Root,"  and  "Note  on  Rhubarb,"  exhibiting  several  chests  of 
the  latter  in  illustration. 
