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PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 
obtained  from  Congress  and  a  permanent  depository  established 
in  Washington,  D.  C,  at  which  Capital  the  meetings  should  be 
held  at  intervals  of  perhaps  five  years,  the  intermediate  meetings 
being  changed  annually  as  at  present. 
These  suggestions,  though  not  strictly  within  the  scope  of  this 
report,  are  induced  by  the  prospect  of  a  representation  in  the 
Pharmacopoeial  Convention,  and  are  submitted  for  the  considera- 
tion of  the  Association,  by 
Edward  Parrish, 
W.  B.  Chapman, 
Saml.  M.  Colcord, 
John  Meakim. 
On  motion  the  first  and  second  propositions  were  taken  up, 
fully  discussed,  and  adopted. 
On  motion,  it  was  ordered  that  a  committee  to  nominate  ten 
members  for  a  Pharmacopoeia  Committee,  and  report  at  a  future 
sitting,  be  appointed  by  the  Chair.  This  duty  was  entrusted  to 
Frederick  Stearns,  W.  Procter,  Jr.,  and  S.  M.  Colcord. 
The  third  and  fourth  propositions  were,  after  considerable 
discussion,  laid  on  the  table  until  the  next  annual  meeting. 
The  Executive  Committee  now  made  a  special  report  in  refer- 
ence to  the  subject  of  Drug  Examiners,  in  obedience  to  a  duty 
referred  to  them  last  year.  From  the  Report  it  appears  that  the 
Committee  addressed  a  letter  on  behalf  of  this  Association  to 
the  Hon.  Howell  Cobb,  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  and  similar 
action  was  taken  by  the  Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy, 
backed  by  the  Medical  Society  of  that  State,  which  appears  to 
have  received  no  consideration,  as,  since  that  event  the  long  tried 
Examiner  at  New  York  has  been  displaced,  under  circumstances 
which  convince  the  Committee  that  government  continues  to  look 
upon  the  office  of  Examiner  of  Drugs  as  a  fitting  reward  for  po- 
litical partizans,  rather  than  as  a  highly  important  guardianship 
of  one  of  the  most  important  interests  of  the  whole  country. 
The  Committee  also  recommended  an  application  to  Congress,  to 
so  modify  the  law  as  shall  make  the  appointment  require  the  as- 
sent of  the  U.  S.  Senate,  in  furtherance  of  which  view  the  fol- 
lowing resolution  was  adopted  and  referred  to  the  Executive 
Committee : 
"  Resolved,  That  a  Committee  be  appointed  to  memorialize 
