5 02  A  merican  Pliarmaceutical  A ssociation.  {  Am-  oct^i^^01" 
AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
The  forty-first  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association 
was  called  to  order  shortly  after  3  P.  M.,  on  Monday,  Aug.  14,  1893,  in  the  Hall 
of  Washington  at  the  Art  Palace,  Michigan  Avenue,  Chicago,  by  Prof.  J.  P. 
Remington,  President.  On  the  platform  were  noticed  a  number  of  distin- 
guished foreign  honorary  members  and  the  officers  of  the  Association.  The 
absence  of  the  Permanent  Secretary,  Prof.  J.  M.  Maisch  was  soon  noticed 
and  the  news  of  his  serious  illness  spread  very  rapidly.  After  calling  the  meet- 
ing to  order  President  Remington  announced  that  owing  to  the  absence  of 
Secretary  Maisch  it  had  been  found  necessary  to  appoint  a  Secretary  pro  tern., 
and  that  he  had  selected  Professor  Whelpley,  St.  Louis,  to  fill  that  position. 
President  Remington  then  introduced  Dr.  Peabody,  chief  of  the  Department  of 
Liberal  Arts  of  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition,  who  had  been  chosen  to 
welcome  the  Association  to  Chicago.  After  an  enthusiastic  reception,  Dr.  Pea- 
body  in  welcoming  the  Association  outlined  the  general  object  of  the  World's 
Fair  from  an  educational  point  of  view  and  gave,  in  detail,  some  information 
about  the  World's  Fair  Auxiliary.  He  called  attention  to  the  fact  that  for 
months  past  the  halls  had  been  filled  by  followers  of  various  arts  and  sciences, 
whose  deliberations  had  been  recorded  for  the  benefit  of  mankind.  Of  all 
these  congresses  none  represented  a  higher  or  more  useful  branch  of  science 
than  did  pharmacy,  for  which  reason  he  felt  specially  honored  in  having  been 
selected  to  welcome  representatives  of  such  an  important  department.  When 
the  speaker  began  to  refer  to  the  rise  and  progress  of  the  Western  metropolis 
he  became  very  eloquent.  He  referred  to  its  institutions  of  learning,  dwell- 
ing especially  on  those  of  Pharmacy.  He  further  drew  a  comparison  between 
the  progress  of  Chicago  and  of  pharmacy.  Both,  he  said,  had  risen  from 
humble  surroundings  and  were  steadily  climbing  upward  and  onward.  In  con- 
clusion, the  Doctor  said  :  "I  am  here  to-day  to  say  to  you  all,  that  Chicago 
welcomes  you  most  heartily  to  all  that  she  has  to  offer,  to  all  the  privileges,  to 
all  the  enjoyments  connected  with  the  Fair,  to  her  homes  and  her  social  life — 
whatever  you  may  desire  to  enjoy  ;  and  I  trust  that  when  you  shall  return  to 
your  homes  and  your  duties,  you  will  return  feeling  that  Chicago,  as  a  host, 
has  given  to  you  of  her  abundance,  and  that  she  has  given  you  occasion  to 
remember  her  with  satisfaction  and  delight  in  all  your  future  life."  [Applause.] 
President  Remington  then  called  on  A.  P.  Preston,  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H., 
first  Vice-President  of  the  Association,  to  reply  to  Dr.  Peabody  on  behalf  of  the 
Association.  Mr.  Preston  cordially  thanked  Dr.  Peabodj^  for  his  eloquent 
words  of  welcome.  The  association,  he  said,  came  to  Chicago  for  three  pur- 
poses— first,  to  bring  together  the  greatest  gathering  of  pharmacists  the  country 
had  ever  seen;  second,  to  enable  its  members  to  see  the  wonderful  ''  White 
City,"  about  which  they  heard  so  much  ;  third,  to  enable  them  to  see  something 
of  Western  enterprise,  the  reports  of  which  had  penetrated  even  to  the  depths 
of  New  England,  from  whence  he  himself  came.  People  from  other  parts  of 
the  country,  Mr.  Preston  said,  could  not  realize  the  effect  of  citizens  of  that 
region  by  their  first  pilgrimage  to  the  West,  as  the  latter  were  brought  up  in 
the  idea  that  there  could  be  no  good  outside  of  New  England.  Having  seen 
the  West  and  its  great  metropolis,  the  speaker  observed  that  he  felt  prouder 
than  ever  of  the  great  country  of  which  it  formed  a  part.    In  conclusion,  Mr. 
