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ton,  D.  C.  ;  George  H.  Schaefer,  Fort  Madison,  Iowa  ;  Benjamin 
Lillard,  Nashville,  Tenn. 
Committee  on  Ebert  Prize,  Charles  Bullock,  Chairman  ;  Wilson  H. 
Pile,  John  M.  Maisch,  Philadelphia. 
The  Nominating  Committee  likewise  reported  the  completion  of 
the  Permanent  Committee  on  the  Pharmacopoeia,  as  follows  : 
George  F.  H.  Markoe,  Boston ;  P.  Wendover  Bedford,  New  York  ; 
Alfred  B.  Taylor,  Philadelphia  ;  J.  Faris  Moore,  Baltimore ;  Albert 
E.  Ebert,  Chicago;  William  H.  Crawford,  St.  Louis;  J.  C.  Wharton, 
Nashville  ;  C.  Lewis  Diehl,  Louisville  ;  William  S.  Thompson,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  ;  John  F.  Judge,  Cincinnati ;  C.  H.  Dalrymple,  Mor- 
ristown,  N.  J.  ;  Charles  A.  Tufts,  Dover,  N.  H.  :  William  Saunders, 
London,  Ontario  ;  Paul  Balluff,  New  York. 
The  report  wTas,  on  motion,  accepted,  and  the  President  directed 
to  cast  an  affirmative  ballot  in  favor  of  the  nominees,  Messrs.  W.  S. 
Thompson  and  J.  A.  Webb  acting  as  tellers.  Professor  C.  L.  Diehl, 
the  newly- elected  President,  was  conducted  to  the  chair  by  Messrs. 
W.  J.  M.  Gordon  and  J.  F.  Moore,  and,  before  taking  his  seat,  made 
a  few  remarks,  expressive  of  his  thanks  for  the  honor  conferred  upon 
him.  The  Association  passed  a  vote  of  thanks  to  the  retiring  Presi- 
dent and  officers  for  the  able  manner  in  which  they  had  discharged 
their  duties. 
Mr.  F.  H.  Butler,  of  Lowell,  Mass.,  was  elected  a  member,  after 
which  the  Treasurer  read  his  report,  showing  that,  at  the  beginning 
of  the  meeting,  there  had  been  in  the  Treasurer's  hands  the  sum  of 
$918.22.  The  report  was  accepted,  and,  together  with  the  Treasu- 
rer's books,  referred  to  an  Auditing  Committee,  consisting  of  Messrs. 
P.  Balluff,  of  New  York  ;  G.  H.  Cary,  of  Louisville,  and  G.  W. 
Sloan,  of  Indianapolis.  The  committee  reported,  at  a  subsequent 
session,  that  the  accounts  had  been  found  correct,  and  the  Treasu- 
rer's books  were  neatly  and  accurately  kept. 
.  The  report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Drug  Market  was  read  by  the 
Chairman,  Prof.  P.  W.  Bedford,  and  referred  for  publication. 
The  Secretary  read  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Adulterations 
and  Sophistications  ;  in  it,  the  Chairman,  Mr.  Charles  Rice,  of  New 
York,  suggests  to  aim  at  the  establishment  of  a  central  bureau  for 
the  detection  of  adulterations,  in  order  to  secure  to  our  people  some 
of  the  benefits  which  England  derives  from  its  "Adulteration  Act.' 
The  plan  proposed  for  the  present  is  that  the  committee  should  espec- 
