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American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
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A  number  of  amendments  to  the  by-laws  previously  proposed  were  then 
.:acted  upon,  as  follows  : 
Chapter  IX,  Article  II,  Sect.  4,  was  altered  so  as  to  abolish  the  calling  of 
the  roll  at  the  first  session  ;  and  Sect.  7  so  as  to  constitute  the  Nominating 
Committee  from  representatives  of  the  delegations  of  Colleges  of  Pharmacy 
^nd  State  Pharmaceutical  Associations.  Article  IV  of  the  same  chapter 
was  amended  so  as  to  devote  the  third  and  subsequent  sessions  to  the  read- 
ing of  papers,  with  the  exception  of  the  first  hour,  when  other  business 
may  be  transacted,  under  the  proviso  that  the  reading  of  papers  may  be 
suspended  with  the  consent  of  three-fourths  of  the  members  present  at  the 
remaining  sessions.  Other  matters  occupied  the  attention  of  the  Associa- 
tion repeatedly  during  the  time  set  apart  for  the  papers,  and  it  was  evident 
that  a  practical  change  in  the  manner  of  transacting  the  business  had  not 
toeen  attained.  Article  V  of  the  same  chapter,  relating  to  the  exhibition, 
and  all  references  to  the  exhibition,  were  ordered  to  be  stricken  out,  thus 
doing  away  with  the  holding  of  exhibitions  under  the  ausj^ices  of  the 
Association. 
The  amendment  proposed  to  Chapter  IV,  Article  IV,  increasing  the 
Treasurer's  salary  from  |500  to  $750  was  not  concurred  in  ;  but  at  the  next 
session  the  vote  was  reconsidered  and  the  amendment  carried. 
The  Council  was  then  instructed  to  consider  the  expediency  of  reducing 
the  expenses  of  the  Association,  and  to  report  thereon  as  early  as  conve- 
nient. 
An  adjournment  was  then  had  to  the  Exhibition  room,  the  third  session 
to  commence  Thursday,  at  9  A.M. 
At  the  third  session  a  Committee  on  the  time  and  place  of  the  next 
annual  meeting  was  appointed. 
A  series  of  resolutions  offered  by  Mr.  Leo  Eliel  created  considerable  di.->- 
<?ussion,  and  were  finally  lost,  apparently  because  of  being  regarded  imprac- 
ticable. The  resolutions  deprecated  the  mixing  of  remedies  by  manufac- 
turing pharmacists;  advised  the  manufacturer  to  present  remedial  agents 
free  from  admixture;  declared  against  empiricism  in  all  its  forms;  con- 
demned the  manufacture  of  unauthorized  combinations,  and  the  methods 
•of  forcing  these  upon  the  dispenser,  as  being  unprofessional,  unjust  to  the 
dispensing  pharmacist  and  at  variance  with  scientific  advancement  in 
pharmacy  and  in  medicine  ;  and  affirmed  it  to  be  the  duty  of  the  pharma- 
•cist  to  meet  all  requirements  of  physicians,  and  never  to  dispense  "  factory- 
made  prescriptions,"  unless  ordered  by  the  prescriber. 
A  report  from  the  Committee  to  report  on  the  unofficinal  formulas  jDre- 
sented  last  year,  offered  to  the  Association  the  formulary  prepared  and 
copyrighted  by  the  New  York  and  Brooklyn  Pharmaceutical  Societies, 
under  certain  conditions.  After  considerable  discussion  the  further  consid- 
eration of  the  subject  was  postponed  until  the  next  session,  when  tlie  offer 
was  accepted  in  a  somewhat  modified  form  ;  accordingly  the  formulary  will 
be  published  in  the  next  volume  of  the  "Proceedings,"  and  when  the 
necessary  revision  has  been  made,  will  also  be  published  in  such  a  form  so 
4is  to  place  it  within  easy  reach  of  all  pharmacists. 
A  cable  message  was  received  from  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference, 
