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Including  a  cash  balance  on  July  1,  1890,  of  14,140.57,  the  Treasurer  reported 
a  total  income  to  March  15  of  $9,206.39  ;  total  disbursements,  $4,464.90  ;  cash 
on  hand,  $4,741.49. 
For  account  of  the  National  Formulary,  during  the  same  period,  there  was 
reported  :  Cash  receipts,  $543.04  ;  expenses,  $198.75.  The  total  receipts  from 
this  source,  since  1888,  were  $6,067.64;  total  expenses,  $4,104.81;  total  cash 
profit,  $1,952.83. 
The  Committee  on  Membership,  reported  the  decease  of  nine  members  and 
one  honorary  member,  H.  B.  Brady,  since  the  last  meeting. 
The  amendment  to  the  By-laws  creating  a  Standing  Committee  on  Trans- 
portation, which  had  been  proposed  at  the  preceding  meeting,  was  called  up 
for  action,  the  number  of  members  was  increased  from  five  to  nine  by  one 
member  each  from  Boston,  Atlanta,  Denver  and  San  Francisco,  and  then 
adopted.  The  vote  was  reconsidered  at  the  next  session,  and  the  by-law 
modified  by  charging  the  Council  with  the  appointment  of  the  Chairman  and 
Members  of  the  Committee  on  Transportation. 
Professor  Oldberg  presented  a  communication  from  the  World's  Congress 
Auxiliary  of  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition  in  Chicago,  stating  that  a 
special  committee,  consisting  of  Messrs.  Oldberg,  Sargent,  Ebert,  Dyche  and 
Hogan  had  been  appointed  for  the  purpose  of  promoting  the  holding  of  a 
pharmaceutical  congress  in  1893,  and  tendering  to  the  Association,  in  advance, 
whatever  facilities  may  be  in  the  Auxiliary's  power  to  extend.  Some  discussion 
was  occasioned  in  view  of  the  action  previously  had  by  the  Association,  and  it 
was  deemed  best  to  refer  the  whole  subject  for  consideration  and  report  to  a 
committee  consisting  of  Messrs.  Gordon,  Whelpley,  Holl'ster,  Good  and 
Simon. 
The  amendment  to  the  Constitution,  proposed  in  1890,  creating  the  office  of 
Assistant  Secretary,  was,  at  the  suggestion  of  its  mover,  Mr.  Ebert,  indefinitely 
postponed. 
By  vote  of  the  Association  in  1890,  the  Treasurer's  bond  had  been  reduced 
from  $10,000  to  $5,000.  On  motion  and  proper  consideration,  the  By-Ivaws 
were  amended  accordingly. 
An  adjournment  was  then  had  until  Tuesday  morning. 
Second  Session. — After  the  reading  and  approval  of  the  minutes  of  the  first 
session,  in*  the  absence  of  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Nominations,  the 
Council  presented  the  names  of  63  candidates  for  membership,  whose  applica- 
tions were  approved  by  the  Association. 
A  report  from  Professor  Diehl,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  National 
Formulary,  was  read,  stating  that  in  view  of  the  approach  of  the  issue  of  the  new 
United  States  Pharmacopoeia,  preliminary  steps  had  been  taken  towards  organ- 
ized action  by  the  Committee  for  revising  the  National  Formulary  as  promptly 
as  possible  after  the  issue  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  ;  that  a  circular-letter  had  been 
issued  to  the  forty-four  members  of  the  Committee  ;  that  up  to  the  time  of 
writing  the  report  only  sixteen  acknowledgments  had  been  received,  including 
one  from  California,  containing  a  number  of  practical  formulas  and  sugges- 
tions ;  and  that  the  hope  was  justified  of  sufficient  progress  being  made  by  the 
next  annual  meeting  to  justify  the  expectation  of  an  early  revision  of  the 
Formulary. 
The  Committee  on  Adoption  of  the  Metric  System  presented  a  report,  request- 
