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instructed  to  present  a  more  detailed  report  of  the  finances  of  the 
Association  for  the  information  of  the  members  at  the  next  annual 
meeting.  The  report  of  "  the  committee  on  advancing  the  status  of 
pharmacists  in  the  public  service,"  was  read  by  the  chairman,  George 
F.  Payne.  A  resolution  was  offered  by  C.  S.  N.  Hallberg,  asking 
the  council  to  arrange  the  work  of  the  Association  so  as  to  take  the 
least  number  of  days,  and  was  unanimously  adopted. 
A  paper  on  "  Procter  Memorial,"  by  John  F.  Hancock,  was 
presented  by  the  secretary,  Chas.  Caspari,  Jr.  C.  Lewis  Diehl  moved 
that  the  paper  be  printed  in  the  Proceedings,  and  that  it  be  referred 
to  council  to  present  a  report  at  the  next  annual  meeting. 
With  the  installation  of  the  new  officers,  the  work  of  the  annual 
meeting  was  brought  to  a  close. 
SCIENTIFIC  SECTION. 
The  Scientific  Section  was  convened  on  Wednesday  morning 
with  J.  O.  Schlotterbeck  in  the  chair.  Owing  to  the  absence  of 
the  Secretary  and  the  associate  member  of  the  committee,  Edward 
Kremers  and  W.  A.  Puckner  were  selected  to  the  respective  offices. 
The  chairman's  address  was  devoted  to  the  consideration  of  the 
investigations  upon  the  mydriatic  alkaloids,  atropine  and  hyoscy- 
amine,  and  will  be  published  in  a  later  issue  of  this  Journal. 
The  Committee  on  Ebert  Prize,  Julius  A.  Koch,  chairman,  recom- 
mended the  award  of  the  prize  to  Frederick  G.  Power,  London,  for 
his  paper  on  "The  Chemistry  of  the  Stem  of  Derris  Uliginosa  Benth. 
(An  Eastern  Fish  Poison)." 
The  Committee  on  Drug  Market  reported  through  E.  H.  Gane 
variations  in  the  drugs  and  chemicals  examined  by  them.  The 
report  will  be  printed  in  full  in  a  later  issue. 
The  committee  also  moved  the  adoption  of  the  following  resolu- 
tions which  were  favorably  acted  upon  by  the  section,  but  apparently 
not  considered  by  the  Association  : 
Resolved,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  that  great  good  would  be  accomplished  if  the  Secretary 
of  the  Treasury  would  confer  with  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  for 
the  purpose  of  making  suitable  arrangements  with  all  the  United 
States  port  chemists  to  place  at  the  disposal  of  the  Bureau  of  Chem- 
istry all  their  analytical  methods  bearing  on  drugs  and  chemicals 
and  the  data  they  obtain  in  the  examination  of  imported  goods  from 
time  to  time. 
