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PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 
of  these  aims,  I  submit  these  pages  to  the  considerate  judgment  of  the  ex- 
perienced chemist,  and  to  the  zealous  student  in  this  field  of  inquiry,  who 
has  had  no  opportunity  from  his  own  experience  to  devise  a  method  for 
the  analysis  of  vegetable  substances.  (See  page  492.) 
TENTH  ANNUAL  MEETING  OF  THE  AMERICAN 
PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
The  meeting  of  this  body,  which  was  to  have  taken  place  at  St.  Louis, 
in  1861,  but  postponed  account  of  on  the  national  troubles,  commenced 
its  sessions  at  the  Hall  of  the  College  of  Pharmacy,  Filbert  street  above 
Seventh,  on  Wednesday,  August  27th,  1862,  at  3  o'clock  P.  M. 
The  President,  Henry  T.  Kiersted,  of  New  York,  called  the  meeting 
to  order.    James  T.  Shinn,  of  Philadelphia,  Secretary. 
Samuel  M.  Colcord,  of  Boston,  P.  W.  Bedford,  of  New  York,  and  A. 
B.  Taylor,  of  Philadelphia,  were  appointed  a  Committee  on  Credentials, 
pending  whose  action  the  members  were  invited  to  enroll  their  names 
on  the  register. 
The  Committee  on  Credentials  reported  the  following  delegates  from 
Colleges  of  Pharmacy,  viz  : — 
From  the  Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy. — S.  M.  Colcord,  Henry 
W.  Lincoln,  Charles  T.  Carney,  Thomas  Hollis,  and  A.  P.  Melzar. 
From  the  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy. — John  Milhau,  John 
Meakim,  John  W.  Shedden,  P.  W.  Bedford,  Wm.  Wright,  Jr. 
From  the  Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy.  —  J.  J.  Thomsen,  N. 
Hynson  Jennings,  J.  Faris  Moore,  Jonas  Winter,  and  J.  Brown  Baxley. 
From  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. — Samuel  F.  Troth, 
Daniel  B.  Smith,  Elias  Durand,  Edward  Parrish,  and  James  T.  Shinn. 
The  Executive  Committee  then  reported  a  list  of  members  elected  in 
the  interim,  viz  : — 
Charles  C.  Thornton,  Sharon,  Miss. 
Fairman  S.  Taber,  Hunts ville,  Ala. 
Edward  R.  Fell,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Frederick  A.  Keffer,      "  " 
A.  S.  White,  Mount  Holly,  N.  J. 
Francis  M.  Basset,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
John  A.  Niebrugge,       "  " 
S.  F.  Conway,  "  " 
George  Peduzzi,  New  York  City, 
Bemhard  Reinhold,         "  " 
Adolph  G.  Dunn,  "  " 
James  S.  Higgins,  New  York  City, 
The  Roll  was  then  called,  and  the  names  of  those  present  noted  by  the 
Secretary. 
Theobald  Frohwein,  New  York  City. 
R.  S.  McMurdy,  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Thomas  S.  Maffitt,  Boston,  Mass. 
Laban  Beal,  "  " 
Nathan  F.  Peck,  Willimantic,  Conn. 
J.  R.  Carpenter,  Calais,  Maine. 
George  J.  Waugh,  Hamilton,  C.  W. 
Robert  J.  Brown.  Leavenworth, 
Kansas. 
Andrew  J.  Tully,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
John  C.  Gerhard, 
