422  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {^ptJe°mbef,hi9o.3?" 
Ed.  Schaer  for  his  paper  entitled  "  On  Guaiac-Blue  and  Aloin-Red, 
and  Their  Use  for  Chemical  Reactions";  and  the  third  general  prize 
to  J.  O.  Schlotterbeck  for  his  paper  on  "  The  Color  Compound  of 
Stylo phomm  dip hy Hum  and  Chelidonium  ma/us." 
The  Auxiliary  Committee  on  Membership,  Wm.  Mittelbach,  chair- 
man, suggested  that  this  committee  be  appointed  at  the  annual 
meeting  or  soon  thereafter,  and  that  each  member  of  the  Association 
securing  a  new  member  be  allowed  Si  to  cover  the  expenses  incurred. 
The  Committee  on  Procter  Memorial,  Joseph  P.  Remington,  chair- 
man, recommended  that  a  canvass  be  made  among  members  to 
secure  life  members  so  as  to  increase  the  Procter  Fund  (i.  e.,  the  life- 
membership  fund)  to  $25,000. 
Carnegie  Institution. — C.  A.  Mayo,  chairman  of  the  committee, 
reported  that  the  following  address  had  been  submitted  to  the  Board 
of  Trustees  of  the  Carnegie  Institution  and  a  reply  was  received  to 
the  effect  that  the  Board  did  not  consider  it  desirable  at  this  time 
to  establish  an  Advisory  Committee  on  Pharmaceutical  Research  : 
To  the  Trustees  of  the  Carnegie  Institution  : 
Gentium  ex.  —At  the  semi-centennial  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceu- 
tical Association  the  following  preamble  and  resolutions  were  adopted: 
Whereas,  Pharmacy  in  its  higher  branches  is  confronted  with  many  grave 
problems  which  can  only  be  solved  by  original  research  conducted  along  broad 
lines,  and  involving  labors  so  great  as  to  be  wholly  outside  the  possibility  of 
individual  performance  under  ordinary  conditions  ;  and 
Whereas,  The  solution  of  these  scientific  problems  is  fraught  with  immense 
possibilities  of  good  to  the  human  race  in  the  discovery  of  new  drugs  and  the 
simplification  of  our  materia  medica  and  its  more  complete  comprehension  ;  and 
Whereas,  According  to  the  articles  of  incorporation,  the  objects  of  the  Car- 
negie Institution  are — 
' '  (a  )  To  conduct,  endow  and  assist  investigation  in  any  department  of  science, 
literature  or  art,  and  to  this  end  to  co-operate  with  governments,  universities, 
colleges,  technical  schools,  learned  societies  and  individuals. 
"  (b)  To  appoint  committees  of  experts  to  direct  special  lines  of  research. 
"  (c)  To  publish  and  distribute  documents  ;  "  therefore  be  it 
Resolved,  That  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  hereby  petition  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Carnegie  Institution  to  establish  an  Advisory  Com- 
mittee on  Pharmaceutical  Research,  with  a  view  to  promoting  original  research 
in  pharmaceutical  science,  etc.  ;  therefore  be  it 
Resolved,  That  the  President  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  be 
instructed  to  appoint  a  committee  of  twenty-five  members,  which  committee 
shall  be  charged  with  the  duty  of  laying  the  above  resolutions  before  the  Car- 
negie Institution,  together  with  suggestions  as  to  how  the  work  of  this  Advisory 
Committee  be  conducted  and  made  most  effective. 
In  pursuance  of  these  resolutions  a  committee  has  been  appointed  represent- 
