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The  Report  of  the  Executive  Committee. 
"       "     of  the  Permanent  Secretary. 
"       "     on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy. 
"       "     on  the  Drug  Market. 
"       "     of  the  Pharmacopoeia  Committee. 
"       "     on  the  Legislation  regulating  the   practice  of 
Pharmacy. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Queries  and  the  Treasurer's 
Report  were  brought  up  later  in  the  sessions. 
The  report  of  the  Executive  Committee  was  now  read  by  Mr. 
Wiegand,  and  the  supplementary  report  by  the  permanent 
Secretary,  both  of  which  were  referred  for  publication. 
From  the  Executive  Committee  we  learn  that  the  15th  volume 
of  proceedings  of  this  Association  was  issued  about  the  middle 
of  December,  which,  though  earlier  than  usual,  would  have  been 
anticipated  several  weeks,  but  for  the  illness  of  Mr.  Slade,  the 
phonographer,  whose  reports  have  added  so  much  to  the  interest 
and  value  of  our  publications,  and  to  whose  skill  and  courtesy 
the  Committee  bear  a  warm  testimony. 
The  total  expense  of  printing  and  publishing  the  proceedings, 
blanks,  constitutions,  &c,  amount  to  about  $1500,  which  has  all 
been  paid  by  checks  from  the  Treasurer. 
The  Committee  also  bear  testimony  to  the  great  labor  occa- 
sioned to  the  Treasurer  by  want  of  promptness  in  responding  to 
his  circulars,  which  besides  greatly  delays  the  payment  of  the 
debts  of  the  Association. 
"As  the  growth  of  our  Association  among  those  who  feel  an  interest 
in  the  true  progress  of  pharmaceutical  science  is  desiraWe,  all  who  are 
thus  anxious  to  advance  our  profession  to  its  proper  position,  are  earn- 
estly invited  to  connect  themselves  with  us  ;  every  facility  for  so  doing 
will  be  furnished  by  the  Permanent  Secretary  or  Chairman  of  the  Execu- 
tive Committee." 
The  report  announces  the  death  of  three  members  of  the 
Association  during  the  past  year,  viz  : 
R.  W.  Stevens,  of  Great  Falls,  N.  H.,  died  May,  1868. 
Ray  B.  Esterbrook,  of  New  York,  died  April  27,  1863. 
Henry  F.  Fish,  formerly  of  Waterbury,  Connecticut,  and  one 
of  the  oldest  members,  died  in  New  York  in  August. 
R.  C.  Kennedy,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  died  August  7,  1868. 
