SOS  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {^pfembe^fSS?' 
SECOND  GENERAL  SESSION. 
The  session  began  business  at  10.40  a.m.,  Thursday,  August  13th,  with  Presi- 
dent Good  in  the  chair.  Secretary  Caspari  read  the  minutes  of  the  first  gen- 
eral session.  They  were  approved.  Secretary  Whelpley,  of  the  Nominating 
Committee,  reported  the  following  as  the  choice  of  the  committee  for  the  offi- 
cers of  the  Association  for  the  ensuing  year  :  President,  J.  E.  Morrison,  Mon- 
treal, Can.;  First  Vice-President,  G.  F.  Payne,  Atlanta,  Ga. ;  Second  Vice- 
President,  W.  A.  Frost,  St.  Paul,  Minn. ;  Third  Vice-President,  G.  W.  Parisen, 
Perth  Amboy,  N.  J. ;  Treasurer,  S.  A.  D.  Sheppard,  Boston,  Mass. ;  General 
Secretary,  Chas.  Caspari,  Jr.,  Baltimore,  Md. ;  Reporter  on  Progress  of  Phar- 
macy, C.  Lewis  Diehl,  Louisville,  Ky.;  Members  of  Council,  for  three  years, 
C.  B.  Dohme,  J.  M.  Good  and  J.  P.  Remington.  It  was  moved  that  the  nomi- 
nee for  President  be  balloted  for.  Messrs.  Stevens  and  Hereth  were  appointed 
tellers.  Mr.  Morrison  was  unanimously  elected.  The  General  Secretary  was 
then  asked  to  cast  an  affirmative  ballot  for  the  other  nominees.  Minutes  of 
Council  were  then  read  by  Secretary  Kennedy.  They  were  approved.  The 
applicants  whose  names  had  been  read  on  the  previous  day  were  then  invited 
to  complete  their  membership  by  paying  the  annual  dues  and  signing  the  Con- 
stitution. The  Committee  on  Time  and  Place  of  next  Meeting  submitted  two 
reports,  one  in  favor  of  each  place  from  which  invitations  had  been  received. 
The  majority  had  decided  on  Lake  Minnetonka,  Minn.,  but  Mr.  J.  O.  Burge, 
who  represented  the  minority,  endeavored  to  have  the  Association  consider 
Nashville,  Tenu.  Mr.  Burge  finally  lost  his  motion,  and  as  it  had  been  decided 
to  vote  separately  on  the  matters  of  place  and  time,  an  opportunity  to  discuss 
the  merits  of  the  seasons  and  days  of  the  week  was  afforded  the  members.  It 
was  finally  agreed  that  Monday,  August  23,  1897,  should  be  the  date.  The  Treas- 
urer then  read  his  report,  which  Vice-President  Dohme  moved  to  receive,  as  it 
had  been  examined  by  the  Auditing  Committee.  The  same  disposition  was 
made  of  the  General  Secretary's  financial  accounts.  The  Reporter  on  the  Pro- 
gress of  Pharmacy,  Prof.  C.  Lewis  Diehl,  read  the  introductory  to  his  report, 
which  will  occupy  about  500  pages  of  the  volume  of  Proceedings.  The  report 
was  accepted.  Secretary  of  Committee  on  Membership  Kennedy  then 
reported  for  the  past  year.  The  members  who  were  elected  at  Denver  last  year 
represented  thirty-seven  States.  Only  one  man  became  a  life  member  during 
the  fiscal  year.  Many  members  were  in  arrears,  and  209  of  these  who  had  been 
delinquent  for  three  or  four  years  were  likely  to  be  dropped  from  the  roll. 
There  were  95  life  members  on  the  roll  at  the  time  of  the  report.  The  honorary 
membership  was  the  same  as  last  year,  there  having  been  one  death  and  one 
member  added.  The  resignations  of  25  members  had  been  received.  Eighty- 
three  had  been  dropped  from  roll  for  various  causes.  Death  had  claimed  19 
members.  The  contributing  members  numbered  1,448,  while  the  total  mem- 
bership aggregated  1,558.  Mr.  Kennedy  said  that,  in  submitting  his  twenty- 
second  annual  report,  he  desired  to  express  his  thanks  to  all  the  officers  and 
members  of  the  Association  who  so  promptly  responded  when  their  assistance 
was  required.  The  report  was  received  and  referred  to  the  Publication  Com- 
mittee. 
Mr.  Ebert  proposed  a  change  in  the  Constitution,  making  it  necessary  for  the 
annual  fee  of  $5  for  the  current  year  to  accompany  the  application  for  member- 
