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AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION.  483 
Pr.  Squibb  also  read  a  volunteer  paper  on  Scammony,  which  was  ac- 
cepted and  referred  for  publication; 
Query  48.  On  Arrowroot,  was  replied  to  by  Evan  T.  Ellis. 
Some  general  discussion  ensued  after  reading  this  paper,  on  the  subject 
of  this  fecula,  in  which  St.  Vincent  Arrowroot  was  spoken  of  as  equal 
in  real  value  to  the  Bermuda  variety,  though  of  less  commercial  value. 
Query  49,  to  Dr.  Battey,  elicited  no  reply. 
Query  50.  This  query  was  read  at  the  following  session,  it  having  been 
delayed  by  post. 
Query  51,  to  Mr.  Tilden,  was  not  replied  to. 
Edward  Parrish  exhibited  a  small  apparatus  for  testing  the  relative  ex- 
plosibility  of  different  lots  of  coal  oil  to  detect  benzine. 
The  Chairman  of  the  Business  Committee  brought  forward  a  matter  of 
delinquency  of  a  Boston  member,  but  action  was  postponed  until  to-mor- 
row. It  was  moved  and  carried  that  when  we  adjourn  it  be  till  to-morrow 
morning  at  9  o'clock. 
The  Business  Committee  brought  up  from  the  list  of  unfinished  business 
the  subject  of  an  act  of  incorporation,  and  the  committee  appointed  to 
report  amendments  to  the  drug  law.  It  was  moved  and  carried  that  the 
subjects  be  dismissed,  and  Committees  be  discharged  from  further  service. 
The  Committee  to  report  on  a  certificate  of  membership  was  indefi- 
nitely postponed. 
The  subject  of  offering  prizes  for  valuable  elaborate  papers  was  then 
brought  forward  by  the  Business  Committee  from  the  last  annual  session, 
and  after  having  been  discussed,  it  was  concluded  that,  at  least  for  the 
present,  the  object  of  the  Association  could  be  attained  by  special  reso- 
lution to  meet  the  cases  that  might  arise. 
The  following  preambles  and  resolutions  were  then  offered  and  unanim- 
ously carried  : 
Whereas,  The  Report  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy  having  now  neces- 
sarily embraced  a  period  of  two  years,  involved  an  unusual  amount  of 
labor;  and  whereas,  the  Chairman  of  that  Committee  has  not  only  cheer- 
fully given  his  talents,  time  and  labor  to  the  work,  but  has  systemizedand 
perfected  the  report  to  a  degree  which  must  reflect  great  credit  upon  the 
Association.  Therefore 
Resolved,  That  the  Treasurer  of  the  Association  be  directed  to  hand 
to  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy,  Mr. 
John  M.  Maisch,  the  sum  of  fifty  dollars,  as  a  prize  offered  by  the  Asso- 
ciation in  honorable  recognition  of  his  services  in  the  report  of  this  Com- 
mittee ;  and  that  the  thanks  of  the  Association  be  and  are  hereby  also 
given  him. 
Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  this  preamble  and  resolutions  be  given  to  Mr. 
Maisch  by  the  Secretary. 
Wliereas,  By  resolution  of  the  Association  at  its  last  annual  meeting, 
it  was  decided  to  have  a  general  Index  of  the  Proceedings  prepared  up  to 
the  year  1860,  and  that  a  full  set  of  the  Proceedings  were  given  to  the 
member  who  should  accomplish  the  work,  as  a  complimentary  prize  for 
