376.  Pharmaceutical  Associations.         {Am  juiyl;imrm' 
The  officers  for  the  current  year  are  :  A.  A.  Yeager,  Knoxville,  President ; 
J.  L.  Thompson,  Nashville,  Secretary,  and  E.  L.  Laurent,  Nashville,  Treasurer. 
At  the  next  meeting,  which  will  be  held  at  Knoxville  on  the  third  Wednesday 
of  May,  1891,  a  competitive  exhibition  will  take  place  of  preparations  made  by 
pharmacists  of  Tennessee. 
The  Texas  State  Pharmaceutical  Association  held  its  meeting  in  San 
Antonio,  May  13.  An  address  by  Mayor  Walthall,  President  Williams' 
address,  and  the  usual  routine  business  occupied  the  first  day's  session.  On 
the  two  following  days,  the  reports  of  officers  and  committees  were  read  and 
discussed  ;  several  papers  were  read  ;  the  sum  of  $200  was  voted  to  be  annually 
awarded  for  four  prizes"  for  papers  presented  at  the  meetings  ;  Houston  was 
selected  for  holding  the  next  annual  meeting,  on  the  second  Tuesday  of  May, 
1891,  and  the  following  executive  officers  were  elected  :  President,  W.  B.  Mor- 
rison, Waco  ;  Secretary,  L.  Myers  Connor,  Dallas  ;  Treasurer,  E.  W.  Lancas- 
ter. Marshall,  and  J.  Burgheim,  local  Secretary. 
TJ  e  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association  convened  at  its  thirteenth 
annual  meeting  at  York,  June  10,  President  J.  W.  Miller,  of  Allegheny,  in  the 
Chair.  Second  Vice-President  Patton  having  been  absent  from  the  meeting, 
held  last  year,  was  introduced  to  the  Association.  Mr.  H.  A.  Hay,  the  Chair- 
man of  the  local  committee,  introduced  Ma}ror  D.  K.  Noell,  who  in  welcoming 
the  members  to  the  city  of  York,  related  some  reminiscences  of  his  brief 
career  as  a  druggist's  apprentice  nearly  sixty  years  ago.  Treasurer  Lemberger 
replied  to  the  address  of  welcome  in  appropriate  terms.  A  Committee  on 
Reception  and  Introduction,  consisting  of  the  local  Secretary,  Second  Vice- 
President  and  three  other  members  was  appointed. 
The  President  then  delivered  his  annual  address,  in  which  the  work  done 
during  the  past  year  was  reviewed,  and  a  number  of  suggestions  were  made 
with  the  view  of  increasing  the  usefulness  of  the  Association,  the  latter  being 
referred  to  a  committee  consisting  of  Messrs.  McGarrah,  of  Scranton ; 
Prichard,  of  Tyrone,  and  George,  of  Harrisburg. 
A  resolution  was  adopted  extending  the  courtesies  of  the  floor  to  the  physi- 
cians of  York  and  vicinity,  and  a  committee  was  appointed  to  receive  and 
report  on  credentials  of  delegations  appointed  to  this  meeting. 
Reports  were  received,  and  disposed  of,  from  the  Executive  Committee,  the 
Secretary  and  the  Treasurer,  the  latter  reporting  the  receipts  during  the  year  to 
have  been  $1,462.27,  the  total  expenses,  $685. 14,  and  the  balance  on  hand,  $777. 13. 
After  the  appointment  of  a  Committee  on  the  Time  and  Place  of  the  next 
annual  meeting,  an  adjournment  was  had  until  8  o'clock  P.M. 
At  the  second  session  the  following  officers  were  elected  :  J.  H.  Stein,  Read- 
ing, President ;  J.  F.  Patton,  York,  and  W.  H.  McGarrah,  Scranton,  Vice- 
Presidents  ;  J.  L.  Lemberger,  Lebanon,  Treasurer  ;  J.  A.  Miller,  Harrisburg, 
Secretary,  and  J.  H.  Redsecker,  Lebanon  ;  C.  T.  George,  Harrisburg,  and  W. 
Harris,  Hamburg,  Executive  Committee. 
Reports  were  received  from  the  Committees  on  Legislation,  on  the  Revision 
of  the  Pharmacopoeia,  on  Credentials,  and  others.  A  touching  reminiscence 
was  that  of  Mr.  J.  W.  Colcord,  who  was  present  as  a  delegate  from  Massa- 
chusetts, and  who,  in  1863,  after  the  battle  of  Gettysburg,  lay  wounded  in  the 
1ecture  hall  of  the  Odd  Fellows'  Building,  where  the  present  meeting  was  held, 
id  which  at  that  time  had  been  converted  into  a  hospital. 
