MINUTES  OF  THE 
membership  hereafter  to  five  dollars,  which,  motion  was  carried 
by  a  vote  of  51  in  favor,  without  any  dissenting  votes. 
It  was  then  moved  that  the  certificate  of  membership  shall 
require  the  signature  of  but  one  Yice-President,  and  that  the 
Treasurer  should  sign  it,  both  of  which  were  adopted.  The 
report  of  the  committee  as  a  whole  was  then  adopted. 
William  A.  Brewer,  of  New  York,  offered  the  following  reso-  , 
lution,  whieh,  in  compliance  with  his  request,  was  for  the  pres- 
ent laid  upon  the  table : 
Resolved,  That  while  we  hold  to  a  high  appreciation  of  the  beneficial 
influence  of  the  accustomed  social  entertainments  tendered  to  the  mem- 
bers of  this  Association  and  their  friends  by  the  members  of  the  drug 
trade  in  the  various  cities  where  the  Association  meets  from  time  to 
time,  and  while  we  cherish  with  gratitude  and  thankfulness  the  good  feel- 
ing which  prompts  these  magnificent  exhibitions  of  generosity,  we  cannot 
but  hope  that  hereafter  the  solicitors  of  the  contributions  for  such  pur- 
poses may  get  permission  from  the  donors  to  devote  a  moiety  of  said  con- 
tributions to  the  endowment  of  a  central  library  and  a  cabinet  of  materia 
medica  and  collateral  matters,  for  the  purposes  and  use  of  the  Associa- 
tion. 
A  paper  by  Thomas  Doliber,  on  the  use  of  benzoin  in  oint- 
ments, which  is  supplementary  to  his  paper  on  benzoinated 
lard,  published  in  the  Proceedings  of  1866,  was  read  by  Dr. 
Squibb.  This  paper  elicited  considerable  discussion,  during 
which  Ferris  Bringhurst,  of  Wilmington,  Del.,  spoke  favorably 
of  the  preservative  influence  of  yellow  wax  in  ointments. 
The  Secretary  read  the  following  papers  by  Edw.  S.  Wayne, 
of  Cincinnati : 
On  Bi-tartrate  of  Potassa,  Tartrate  of  Potassa,  and  Tartaric 
Acid  from  American  Tartar. 
On  Quicksilver,  in  North  Carolina,  from  an  ore  containing 
7 J  per  cent,  of  metallic  mercury. 
On  Mata,  a  leaf  used  by  the  Mexicans  to  flavor  smoking 
tobacco,  and  emitting  an  odor  resembling  coumarin. 
On  American  Opium,  made  by  Dr.  H.  Black,  of  Bolivar, 
Tenn.,  from  the  White  Poppy  and  yielding,  by  Riegel's  method, 
10.2  per  cent,  of  morphia. 
On  Solution  of  Bi-meconate  of  Morphia. 
