536  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {AmbLnt"riSoarm* 
The  Section  elected  as  Chairman  for  the  ensuing  year  Professor  W.  Simon, 
of  Baltimore,  and  as  Secretary,  Mr.  F.  C.  Hogan,  of  Illinois. 
The  final  Session  of  the  Association  took  place  on  Friday  morning.  After 
the  reading  of  the  minutes  of  the  previous  sessions  and  of  the  Council  meet- 
ings, Mr.  A.  K.  Finlay  was  elected  Local  Secretary,  and  a  motion  was  adopted, 
making  him  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Arrangements,  with  power  to 
select  his  associates.  Upon  the  recommendation  of  the  Council  a  Committee 
on  Transportation  was  appointed,  consisting  of  Messrs.  Alexander,  of  St. 
Louis  ;  Main,  of  New  York  ;  Gordon,  of  Cincinnati  ;  Jamieson,  of  Chicago, 
and  the  Local  Secretary. 
A  committee  was  directed  to  be  appointed,  upon  motion  by  Prof.  Reming- 
ton, to  carefully  consider  the  resolutions  offered  by  Prof.  Oldberg,  and  to  report 
what  action  this  Association  should  take  in  endeavoring  to  secure  the  adoption 
of  the  metric  standards  by  the  Government.  The  committee  consists  of  Messrs. 
Remington,  Oldberg,  Rice,  Hallberg  and  Manning. 
On  motion  of  Mr.  Hallberg  resolutions  were  passed,  that  it  would  be  desir- 
able that  the  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress  meet  in  Chicago  in  1893  ; 
that  a  hearty  invitation  be  extended  to  the  pharmacists  of  all  countries  to  be 
present  at  the  meeting  of  this  Association  in  1893,  and  that  a  committee  be 
appointed  to  report  upon  the  matter  at  a  future  meeting. 
Mr.  Connor  read  a  telegram  from  the  Mayor  and  the  President  of  the  Board 
of  Trade,  of  Dallas,  Tex.,  inviting  the  Association  to  hold  its  next  meeting  in 
that  city.    The  communication  was  received  with  thanks. 
The  officers-elect  were  then  installed  and  on  taking  their  stations  expressed 
their  thanks.  Mr.  Taylor,  the  President-elect,  referred  to  his  presence  at  the 
organization  of  the  Association  in  1852  ;  and  Mr.  Maisch  to  his  attendance  at 
the  meeting  in  1857,  and  that  soon  thereafter  work  had  been  assigned  to  him, 
since  1865  the  Secretaryship,  and  notwithstanding  his  resignation  had  been 
again  presented  last  year,  it  had  been  rejected.  It  will  doubtless  be  of  inter- 
est in  connection  with  the  early  history  of  the  Association  to  refer  to  its  fore- 
runner, the  Convention  of  Delegates  from  Colleges  of  Pharmacy,  which  was 
held  in  New  York  in  October  1851.  Of  the  accredited  delegates  then  present, 
we  believe,  that  only  Samuel  M.  Colcord,  of  Massachusetts  ;  George  D.  Cogge- 
shall,  of  New  York,  and  Mr.  Taylor  are  still  living.  The  latter  acted  as  Secre- 
tary of  the  Convention,  which  issued  a  call  for  a  convention  of  pharmacists  for 
the  organization  of  a  National  Association  to  meet  every  year.  This  Conven- 
tion met  in  Philadelphia,  October  6,  1852.  Of  the  delegates  then  present 
Messrs.  Joseph  Burnett,  of  Boston  ;  S.  M.  Colcord  and  G.  D.  Coggeshall  are 
still  living,  the  last  two  having  been  Vice-President  and  Secretary,  respectively, 
at  that  meeting ;  and  of  the  other  members  Eugene  Dupuy,  of  Brooklyn, 
Charles  A.  Heinitsh,  of  Lancaster,  Pa.,  and  the  present  President  of  the 
Association. 
After  the  installation  of  the  officers  a  telegram  was  read  from  Dr.  Frank 
Woodbury,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Materia  Medica  and  Pharmacy, 
American  Medical  Association,  inviting,  in  conformity  with  the  action  of  the 
latter  body,  the  sending  of  delegates  to  attend  the  next  meeting  at  Washing- 
ton. In  response  to  this  invitation  the  appointment  of  twenty-five  members  to 
serve  as  delegates  was  ordered.    In  order  not  to  conflict  with  the  meeting  of 
