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Mr.  Kiersted  now  requested  Mr.  Procter,  the  President  elect,  to  take 
the  chair,  in  doing  which  the  latter  made  the  following  brief  remarks  : 
' c  Gentlemen  of  the  Association  : 
u  I  believe  that  your  partiality  and  personal  good  feeling  has  removed 
me  from  a  sphere  wherein  I  could  operate  usefully  to  the  Association, 
and  creditably  to  myself,  to  a  position  for  many  of  the  duties  of  which 
I  am  unqualified  by  ignorance  of  parliamentary  usage.  This  much  I 
earnestly  represented  to  a  portion  of  the  Nominating  Committee.  In 
accepting,  therefore,  this  chair,  I  will  endeavor  to  perform  its  duties,  and 
I  beg  you  to  remember  what  has  been  said,  and  be  as  charitable  towards 
my  short-comings  as  you  have  been  liberal  of  your  good  will." 
The  Secretary  then  resigned  his  place  to  Mr.  Bedford,  the  Secretary 
elect. 
On  motion  of  the  Chairman  of  the  Business  Committee,  the  Eeport  of 
the  Executive  Committee  was  brought  up  ;  when  the  Chairman  of  that 
Committee  requested  to  amend  the  Report  by  inserting  a  paragraph 
which  had  been  omitted  in  copying,  relating  to  the  plan  of  admitting 
new.  members  in  the  interim  between  meetings,  as  directed  in  the  Con- 
stitution. The  request  was  granted.  It  was  then  moved  that  the 
Report  of  the  Executive  Committee  be  accepted  and  recorded  in  the 
minutes. 
[This  Report  gives  an  account  of  the  publication  of  the  Proceedings  of 
1860,  of  their  distribution,  and  of  their  cost.  The  aggregate  expense  of 
printing,  engraving,  paper,  and  binding  1000  copies  is  stated  at  $602.76. 
The  expenses  of  distribution  $51.35.  The  number  of  new  members  ad- 
mitted in  the  interim  was  twenty-two,  and  seven  deaths  have  occurred.] 
The  recommendation  in  the  report  regarding  the  mode  of  creating 
members  in  the  interim,  was  now  discussed.  Dr.  Squibb  said  that  the 
present  plan  involved  much  labor,  and  thought  the  time  had  come 
when  it  would  be  proper  to  abolish  the  plan  of  admitting  members  in 
the  interim.  Mr.  Parrish  thought  a  better  plan  might  be  adopted,  and 
suggested  that  a  committee  be  appointed  to  consider  this  subject,  and 
also  the  future  disposition  of  the  suspended  list  ret  ommended  in  the 
President's  annual  address. 
On  motion,  the  Chair  appointed  Samuel  M.  Colcord,  Edward  Parrish, 
and  J.  J.  Thomsen,  to  this  duty. 
The  Treasurer's  report  now  being  in  order,  it  was  read  by  that  officer, 
and  on  motion  of  Mr.  Kiersted,  was  referred  by  the  Chair  to  an  auditing 
committee,  consisting  of  Alfred  B.  Taylor  and  William  Wright,  Jr. 
On  motion  of  the  Business  Committee,  the  recommendation  of  the 
Treasurer  in  regard  to  the  suspended  list  of  members  in  arrears,  was 
referred  to  the  committee  appointed  to  consider  the  subject  of  the  ad- 
mission of  members,  &c. 
The  report  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy  being  called  up,  the  Chairman  , 
Mr.  Maisch,  proceeded  to  read  such  portions  of  it  as  would  give  the  Asso- 
