^"'jSy^im*™  }         Correspondence  Am.  Phar.  Asso.  349 
Boston  is  an  ideal  city  for  a  summer  convention  and  the  doors 
of  her  warm-hearted  hospitaHty  are  being  set  wide-open  to  welcome 
with  the  most  diligent  service  of  heart  and  hand,  her  friends  of  the 
East,  the  West,  the  Southland  and  the  Northland,  whose  smiling 
faces  and  cheery  welcomes  have  so  often  made  the  Boston  phar- 
macists feel  at  home  with  them. 
While  Boston's  welcome  to  the  association  will  be  a  warm  one, 
yet  one  need  not  think  it  attributable  to  the  temperature,  for  Boston 
is  never  sultry ;  the  breezes  from  Massachusetts  Bay,  which  are 
nearly  always  in  evidence,  making  the  city  cool  when  places  inland 
are  sweltering  in  heat. 
Beyond  the  natural  interest  which  the  scientific  pharmacist  will 
have  in  the  interesting  and  instructive  meetings  at  which  will  be 
gathered  the  leaders  of  pharmaceutical  thought  of  this  and  foreign 
countries,  the  other  many  and  varied  attractions  of  St.  Botolph's 
town  appeal  to  every  one  and  draw  them  irresistibly  to  that  city, 
for  without  the  inspiring  memories  which  throng  around  it,  there 
would  be  no  American  pharmacy.  Its  streets  were  trod  by  Warren, 
by  Adams,  by  Revere  and  by  Hancock,  and  the  first  American  blood 
shed  for  our  independence  flowed  in  its  streets.  Around  and  about 
the  city  are  Lexington  and  Concord,  Bunker  Hill  and  Dorchester 
Heights ;  Plymouth  with  its  historic  "  Rock,"  where  the  Pilgrims 
established  the  first  American  Commonwealth,  In  the  Name  of 
God,  Amen !  " ;  Cambridge  with  its  memories ;  John  Harvard  and  his 
college,  with  its  treasures  of  surpassing  interest  in  its  Germanic 
Museum  and  other  interesting  collections,  its  reminiscences  of  Long- 
fellow and  of  Lowell ;  Salem,  the  Witch  City  and  its  House  of  Seven 
Gables  of  Hawthorne ;  Gloucester  with  its  "  Reef  of  Norman's 
Woe";  and  Marblehead,  through  whose  streets  ''Old  Floyd  Ireson 
was  carried  in  a  cart" ;  Amesbury  and  Haverhill  with  their  memories 
of  "  The  Quaker  Poet,"  Whittier. 
Around  Boston  is  an  inexhaustible  mine  of  history  and  memories 
among  which  the  visitors  to  that  city  may  delve  for  weeks  to  their 
interest  and  profit. 
The  Committee  on  Entertainment,  under  the  energetic  lead  of 
Mr.  C.  Herbert  Packard,  the  Local  Secretary,  is  working  diligently 
to  assure  to  every  member  in  attendance  a  most  pleasurable  occasion, 
with  the  avowed  purpose  that  all  will  ever  remember  it  as  an  event 
in  their  lives.  The  co-operation  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  an 
organization  of  3000  leading  business  men  of  Greater  Boston,  has 
