AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
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pointed  at  the  Annual  Meeting  of  1863,  for  purposes  given  in  the 
minutes  of  the  11th  Annual  Meeting,  (see  proceedings  of  1863,  page 
42),  begs  leave  to  report  that  the  members  have  not  been  unmiudful  of 
the  important  duty  with  which  they  were  intrusted,  and  have  collected 
much  information  which  may  become  useful  at  the  next  revision  of 
the  Pharmacopoeia.  As  the  time  for  the  next  revision  approaches,  a 
question  arises  in  your  Committee  as  to  how  to  prepare  and  present  what 
may  have  been  done.  All  the  members  of  this  Committee  are  fully  occu- 
pied, if  not  over-occupied,  in  the  efforts  which  seem  to  become  less  and 
less  productive  in  getting  a  living  from  their  business,  and  have  little  time 
or  labor  to  spare.  This  Association  is  a  voluntary  and  an  unincorporated 
body,  and  therefore  not  entitled  to  representation  in  the  Decennial  Con- 
vention of  1870.  Should  your  Committee  therefore  undertake  to  make  a 
preliminary  revision  of  the  Pharmacopoeia,  and  should  this  be  presented 
at  the  next  annual  meeting  and  be  accepted  by  the  Association,  it  would 
have  to  be  offered  as  a  voluntary  contribution  at  the  convention,  and  might 
to  a  great  extent  merely  duplicate  the  labor  as  performed  by  incorporated 
representative  bodies.  Such  a  report  would  doubtless  be  courteously  re- 
ceived from  this  Association,  and  would  obtain  its  due  weight  both  in  the 
convention  and  with  its  committee  of  final  revision  ;  but  whether  the 
good  accomplished  would  be  at  all  commensurate  with  the  labor  involved 
in  such  a  report  may  well  be  doubted.  Under  these  circumstances  your 
Committee  would  suggest  that  a  simple  critical  review  of  the  Pharma- 
copeia in  the  light  of  past  experience,  by  each  member  of  the  Committee 
independently,  each  making  mere  points  of  approval  or  objection,  as  his 
experience  and  information  might  indicate,  might  be  all  that  would  be 
warranted  or  required.  And  unless  the  Association  otherwise  orders  or 
directs  this  will  be  the  course  pursued. 
On  behalf  of  the  Committee, 
E.  R.  Squibb, 
Brooklyn,  Sept.  5,  1868.  Chairman. 
The  permanent  Secretary  read  a  letter  dated  Toronto,  Canada, 
Sept.  3d,  from  Henry  J.  Rose,  Secretary  of  the  Canadian 
Pharmaceutical  Society,  in  which  he  expresses  the  thanks  of  that 
Society  for  the  invitation  extended  by  our  Secretary  to  send  del- 
gates  to  this  meeting. 
Frederick  Stearns,  after  a  few  appropriate  remarks,  offered 
the  following : 
"  Resolved,  That  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association 
welcome  heartily  the  presence  at  this  meeting  of  the  Delegation 
from  the  Montreal  Chemists  Association,  the  first  one  accorded 
to  us  from  the  Dominion  of  Canada." 
Dr.  Edward  R.  Squibb  then  introduced  to  the  meeting  both 
