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The  Committee  on  Specimens  were,  on  motion,  permitted  to 
finish  their  report  and  hand  it  to  the  Secretary  next  month,  in 
time  for  the  Proceedings. 
The  Business  Committee  offered  the  following : 
Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  the  Association  are  due,  and  are  hereby 
offered  to  its  local  members  and  many  others  who,  though  not  members, 
are  understood  to  have  been  instrumental  in  the  success  and  entertain- 
ment of  the  present  annual  Convention  ;  also, 
tlesolved,  That  we  thank  our  highly  competent  and  careful  reporter, 
Mr.  Slade,  for  his  successful  efforts  in  our  behalf,  and  those  public  re- 
porters who  have  favored  us  with  their  presence  and  their  public  notices. 
The  resolutions  were  adopted  without  dissent. 
The  reading  of  the  minutes  being  dispensed  with,  the  Asso- 
ciation, on  motion,  adjourned,  to  meet  in  Philadelphia  on  the 
second  Tuesday  of  September,  1868. 
BRITISH   PHARMACEUTICAL  CONFERENCE. 
Dundee,  Scotland. 
Editor  of  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy  : 
Esteemed  Sir, — Herewith  I  enclose  you  an  outline  of  the  pro- 
ceedings of  the  fourth  annual  meeting  of  the  British  Pharma- 
ceutical Conference,  which  met  at  Dundee,  Scotland,  on  the  4th 
and  5th  of  September. 
The  opening  session  was  held  Sept.  4th,  at  10  o'clock  A.  M., 
in  the  rooms  of  the  Ward's  Chapel,  under  the  presidency  of  Prof. 
R.  Bentley,  of  London,  The  hall  was  very  comfortably  and 
tastefully  fitted  up,  with  specimens  of  rare  chemicals  and  drugs, 
and  much  credit  is  due  to  the  local  eommittee  for  their  very  com- 
plete arrangements.  The  attendance  was  quite  numerous.  After 
the  election  of  new  members,  the  secretary  read  the  report  of 
the  executive  committee,  the  report  stating  that  the  numerical 
strength  of  the  Conference  was  increasing  satisfactorily,  the 
number  of  members  now  being  478.  The  report  also  recom- 
mends the  practice  of  Pharmacy  limited  to  qualified  persons  only, 
and  that  it  was  necessary,  in  order  to  attain  this  result,  that  an 
appropriate  examination  should  be  enforced  by  legislative  au- 
thority. After  the  reading  of  the  financial  report,  by  H.  B. 
Brady,  the  Treasurer,  the  President  delivered  his  inaugural  ad- 
dress, the  subject  being  "  The  advantages  derived  by  the  Phar- 
