510  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {^^■oct'"i8^5*™*" 
signed  by  J.  B.  Stephenson,  President,  "  heartily  reciprocating  kind  greet-^ 
ings." 
A  number  of  papers  were  then  read  and  discussed,  of  which  brief  sum- 
maries v/ill  be  found  below. 
At  the  fourth  session,  held  Friday  morning  September  11,  th6  Com- 
mittee appointed  at  the  previous  session  reported  in  favor  of  holding  the 
next  annual  meeting  in  the  city  of  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  which  was^ 
adopted,  amendments  in  favor  of  San  Francisco  and  of  Detroit  having  been 
negatived.  The  first  session  will  be  held  on  the  afternoon  of  the  first  Tues- 
day of  September,  1886.  Mr.  W.  B.  Blauding  was  elected  Local  Secretary, 
and  by  special  resolution,  also  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Entertain- 
ments, with  authority  to  appoint  four  associates.  This  Committee  was 
instructed  not  to  make  any  arrangements  interfering  with  morning  and 
afternoon  sessions  on  the  second  and  third  days  of  the  next  meeting. 
On  motion  of  Mr.  Colcord  last  years'  Committee  on  the  report  on  unoffl- 
cinal  formulas  was  made  the  Committee  on  unofficinal  formulas  for  the 
ensuing  year. 
A  Conjmittee  to  visit  the  National  Wholesale  Druggists  Association  at  its 
meeting  to  be  held  in  Philadelphia  in  October,  was  appointed,  consisting 
of  Mr.  C.  A.  Heinitsh,  Lancaster,  Pa.,  Charles  Caspari,  Jr.,  Baltimore,  Jas- 
T.  Shinn,  Philadelphia,  Charles  Bullock,  Philadelphia,  and  Jos.  L.  Lem- 
berger,  Lebanon,  Pa. 
The  Committee  on  the  President's  address  reported  on  the  suggestions 
contained  therein,  recommending 
1.  That  instead  of  abolishing  the  initiation  fee,  it  be  merged  with  the  life 
membership  fund. 
2.  That  outlines  of  the  courses  of  pharmaceutical  studies  would  be  useful,, 
but  their  preparation  and  publication  could  not  be  advantageously  under- 
taken by  the  Association. 
3.  That  emploj-ers  should  exercise  unremitting  care  in  choosing  the  mate- 
rial for  the  future  pharmacist  by  thoroughly  examining  each  applicant 
desiring  to  enter  the  drug  business  in  the  branches  of  an  English  education 
(arithmetic,  including  proportions,  orthography,  grammar,  English  compo- 
sition, geography  and  American  history). 
4.  That  the  proper  test  of  fitness  of  a  candidate  for  the  license  of  a  State 
examining  board  is  the  State  examination. 
To  carry  out  the  first  recommendation  anj  amendment  was  offered  to 
Article  IV  of  the  Constitution,  which  will  be  acted  on  at  the  next  annual 
meeting. 
An  interesting  letter  to  the  Local  Secretary,  from  Mr.  Samuel  F.  Troth, 
dated  Philadelphia,  eighth  month,  20th,  1885,  was  read.  On  that  day  sixty- 
nine  years  ago  Mr.  Troth  entered  the  drug  business ;  he  is  the  only  one 
living  that  was  present  at  the  first  suggestion  of  organizing  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy  in  1821,  attended  the  first  course  of  lectures  in  1821- 
1822  with  a  class  of  thirty-one,  was  elected  a  member  Fifth  month,  22d,  1822, 
and  of  the  first  one  hundred  members  only  three  are  now  living,  two  of  the 
original  ones,  each  being  over  ninety  years  of  age,  and  himself;  although 
in  his  eighty-fifth  year,  and  retired  from  business  for  more  than  a  quarter 
