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NOTICE. 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
The  sixteenth  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation will  be  held  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  on  the  second  Tuesday 
(the  8th  day)  of  September,  1868,  at  3  o'clock,  P.  M.,  at  the  new  Hall  of 
the  College  of  Pharmacy. 
It  is  confidently  expected  that  the  various  standing  committees, 
through  their  chairmen,  will  be  prepared  in  time  to  furnish  the  Associa- 
tion with  full  and  highly  instructive  reports  on  the  many  interesting  sub- 
jects which  should  occupy  our  earnest  attention. 
The  objects  of  the  Association  and  qualifications  for  membership  are 
set  forth  in  Articles  I  and  II,  Section  1,  of  the  Constitution,  as  follows : 
Article  I. 
This  Association  shall  be  called  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation. Its  aim  shall  be  to  unite  the  educated  and  reputable  pharma- 
ceutists and  druggists  of  the  United  States  in  the  following  objects  : 
1st.  To  improve  and  regulate  the  drug  market,  by  preventing  the  im- 
portation of  inferior,  adulterated  or  deteriorated  drugs,  and  by  detecting 
and  exposing  home  adulteration. 
2d.  To  establish  the  relations  between  druggists,  pharmaceutists, 
physicians  and  the  people  at  large  upon  just  principles,  which  shall  pro- 
mote the  public  welfare  and  tend  to  mutual  strength  and  advantage. 
3d.  To  improve  the  science  and  the  art  of  pharmacy  by  diffusing  sci- 
entific knowledge  among  apothecaries  and  druggists,  fostering  pharma- 
ceutical literature,  developing  talent,  stimulating  discovery  and  invention, 
and  encouraging  home  production  and  manufacture  in  the  several  de- 
partments of  the  drug  business. 
4th.  To  regulate  the  system  of  apprenticeship  and  employment  so  as 
to  prevent,  as  far  as  practicable,  the  evils  flowing  from  deficient  training 
in  the  responsible  duties  of  preparing,  dispensing  and  selling  medicines. 
5th.  To  suppress  empyricism,  and  as  much  as  possible  to  restrict  the 
dispensing  and  sale  of  medicines  to  regularly  educated  druggists  and 
apothecaries. 
Article  II. — Of  the  Members. 
Section  1.  Every  pharmaceutist  and  druggist,  of  good  moral  and  pro- 
fessional standing,  whether  in  business  on  his  own  account,  retired  from 
business,  or  employed  by  another,  and  those  teachers  of  pharmacy,  che- 
mistry and  botany  who  may  be  specially  interested  in  pharmacy  and  ma- 
teria medica,  who,  after  duly  considering  the  objects  of  the  Association 
and  the  obligations  of  its  Constitution,  are  willing  to  subscribe  to  them, 
are  eligible  to  membership. 
Those  desiring  to  join  are  requested  to  apply  for  blank  applications  to 
the  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee,  Thos.  S.  Wiegand,  N.  E.  cor. 
6th  and  Arch  Sts.,  Philad,,  %or  to  the  Permanent  Secretary,  John.  M. 
Maisch,^607  Ridge  Avenue,  Philad. 
John  Milhau,  President. 
New  York,  June  9th,  1868. 
