AmoS;wt?M'}  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  459 
to  $400.  The  salary  of  the  Reporter  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy 
for  the  coming  year  was  fixed  at  $500. 
The  amendments  proposed  at  the  fourth  session  were  considered, 
and  Chap.  VIII,  Art.  2,  was  altered  so  that  the  President's  Address 
may  be  read  after  the  appointment  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials ; 
and  charging  the  Nominating  Committee  with  the  duty  to  nominate 
officers  and  standing  committees  for  the  ensuing  year. 
Resolutions  concerning  the  liquor  dealers'  license  of  apothecaries 
were  offered  by  Mr.  G.  H.  Schaefer.  The  subject  having  been 
entrusted  to  a  special  committee  for  some  years  past,  the  resolutions 
were  voted  down. 
A  motion  to  authorize  the  Treasurer  to  pay  any  necessary  ex- 
penses of  standing  committees,  not  to  exceed  $25  for  each  committee, 
was,  after  some  discussion,  withdrawn. 
Professor  Diehl  read  the  introductory  portion  of  his  report  on  the 
Progress  of  Pharmacy,  which  was  referred  for  publication. 
The  Committee  on  the  Photographic  Album  reported  that  they  had 
received,  during  the  past  year,  about  thirty  photographs. 
The  Association  adjourned  till  Friday  at  9  o'clock  A.  M. 
Sixth  Sessio7i — Friday  Forenoon. 
President  Diehl  called  the  meeting  to  order.  After  the  reading 
of  the  minutes,  letters  were  read  from  Mr.  L.  M.  Royce,  in  relation 
to  the  substitution  of  chicory  for  taraxacum  (query  46),  and  from 
Mr.  F.  V.  Heydenreich,  in  regard  to  pancreatin  (query  21).  All 
queries,  not  otherwise  disposed  of,  were,  on  motion,  dropped. 
The  Liederkranz  Society,  of  Louisville,  extended  an  invitation  to 
the  members  and  their  ladies  to  attend  a  promenade  concert,  to  be 
given  that  evening  at  Woodland  Garden.  The  invitation  was  ac- 
cepted with  thanks. 
The  following  volunteer  papers  were  read :  On  home-made  chemi- 
cals, by  J.  R.  Mercein  ;  On  the  officinal  rhizomes  of  the  genus  Verat- 
rum,  by  Ch.  L.  Mitchell ;  On  the  antiquity  of  the  apothecaries'  craft 
and  title,  by  I.  B.  Patten  ;  On  bromide  of  ammonium  ;  On  phospho- 
retted  resin  and  on  the  construction  of  hydrometers  intended  for 
certain  liquids,  by  Dr.  W.  II.  Pile. 
Mr.  A.  E.  Ebert  exhibited  a  sample  of  what  has  been  offered  in 
several  States  as  American  opium,  and  with  which  article  many  coun- 
try physicians  had  been  cheated.    It  contains  but  traces  of  morphia  ; 
