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Allow  me  also  to  congratulate  you  upon  the  goodly  number,  who  from 
the  West,  the  North,  the  South  are  here  assembled  to-day,  and  assembled 
with  one  common  object — the  elevation  and  improvement  of  Phar- 
maceutical Science.  I  trust  we  are  all  earnest  and  enthusiastic  in  our 
work,  and,  gentlemen,  let  us  hope  that  we  may  soon  rank  our  Asso- 
ciation among  the  most  important,  useful,  and  scientific  of  our  coun- 
try, in  the  influence  it  will  exert  in  elevating  us  as  professional  men,  and 
in  promoting  the  public  welfare.  The  reports  of  the  Standing  Committees — 
the  first,  Executive — will  show  you  that  our  Association  is  in  a  most 
desirable  condition  of  prosperity;  the  2d,  upon  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy, 
has  a  digest  of  numerous  interesting  facts  to  offer. 
The  reports  of  the  special  committees,  from  their  completeness,  will  add 
valuable  matter  to  the  archives  of  our  institution. 
We  may  expect  full  reports  from  those  to  whom  the  several  questions 
were  proposed  at  our  last  meeting. 
I  am  also  led  to  believe  that  several  unofficial  reports  and  communi- 
cations of  an  interesting  and  important  character  will  be  offered. 
Your  attention  will  be  called  particularly  to  the  importance  of  appoint- 
ing a  general  committee,  whose  duties  shall  be  to  suggest  revision  and 
additions  to  our  National  Codex  at  the  Pharmaceutical  Convention  in 
1860.  The  importance  of  this  matter  will  receive,  it  is  hoped,  its  due  con- 
sideration at  your  hands.  It  is  suggested  from  the  success  attending  the 
apportioning  of  questions  to  individual  members,  that  this  method  of 
obtaining  interesting  and  important  documents  for  the  benefit  of  the 
Association  be  continued  during  the  coming  year,  by  the  suggestion  of 
new  subjects  for  investigation  to  individual  members. 
Much  other  business  will  doubtless  require  your  thoughtful  and  im- 
partial consideration. 
In  the  actions  and  discussions  of  this  body  of  workers,  I  trust  to  see 
manifested  enthusiasm,  earnestness,  that  our  meeting  be  conducted  in  a 
spirit  of  harmony,  consistent  with  our  position  and  character,  and  that 
your  efforts  will  result  in  permanent  good  to  our  growing  organization. 
Before  taking  my  seat  among  you,  allow  me  to  express  my  appreciation 
of  the  honor  with  which  you  were  pleased  to  endow  me,  as  well  as  my  thanks 
for  your  present  forbearance  and  courtesy. 
On  motion  adjourned. 
Second  Day — Morning  Session — Sept.  9th,  1857. 
The  Association  was  called  to  order  at  9  o'clock  A.  M.  by 
Vice  President  Stearns. 
The  following  gentlemen  having  been  proposed  for  member- 
ship by  the  Executive  Committee,  were  ballotted  for  and  elected  : 
Elisha  H.  Perkins,  Baltimore,  Md.    G-eorge  Syme,  New  York  City. 
George  W.  Sloan,  Indianapolis,  Ind.    Alexander  Hudnut,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
