AMoit.^i873RM'}    American  Pliarmaceutical  Association.  435 
Dr.  Menninger,  on  behalf  of  the  Executive  Committee,  reported 
the  names  of  51  candidates  for  membership.  Messrs.  S.  M.  McCol- 
lin  and  E.  C.  Jones  having  been  appointed  tellers,  the  President  was, 
on  motion,  directed  to  cast  an  affirmative  ballot  in  favor  of  the  can- 
didates. An  additional  number  of  applicants  for  membership  was 
soon  after  reported  and  likewise  elected.  At  the  first  call  of  the 
roll  70  members  were  found  to  be  present. 
The  following  reports  were  handed  in :  Report  of  the  Executive 
Committee  with  the  report  of  the  Permanent  Secretary,  of  the  Com- 
mittees on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy,  on  the  Drug  Market,  on  Papers 
and  Queries,  on  Legislation,  on  Adulterations  and  Sophistications, 
on  Arrangements  for  the  Meeting  of  1876,  on  Formulas  for  Elixirs, 
on  the  Editorship  of  the  Report  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy,  and 
on  the  Photographic  Album. 
The  amendments  to  the  by-laws  proposed  at  the  Cleveland  meeting 
were,  after  some  discussion,  adopted.  One  of  these  amendments 
defines  the  Societies  which  shall  be  entitled  to  representation  at  the 
annual  meetings  to  be  all  local  organizations  of  pharmacists  (Art.  vi, 
Chap,  vi) ;  the  other  directs  the  appointment  of  the  Committee  on 
Specimens  to  be  made  at  the  first  session  instead  of  at  the  second,  as 
heretofore.  The  amendment  to  the  Constitution  lying  over  from  the 
previous  meeting,  and  relating  to  the  creation  of  a  sinking  fund,  was 
for  the  present  postponed. 
An  invitation  from  the  Toung  Men's  Christian  Association  to  visit 
their  rooms  and  make  use  of  their  library,  was  received  and  directed 
to  be  properly  acknowledged  by  the  Secretary. 
Prof.  Procter  read  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Editorship 
of  the  Report  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy ;  it  recommends  that  the 
labor  be  entrusted  to  a  salaried  officer  of  the  Association,  to  be  called 
Reporter  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy,  proposes  the  necessary  alte- 
rations of  the  Constitution  and  by-laws,  and  recommends  the  election 
of  Prof.  C.  L.  Diehl,  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  to  this  position.  The  report 
was  accepted  and  the  proposed  amendments  adopted. 
The  following  Committee  to  Nominate  Officers  for  the  ensuing 
year  was  appointed  by  the  delegations  named  above :  Messrs.  G.  F. 
H.  Markoe,  David  Hays,  Chas.  Bullock,  Lewis  Dohme,  Wm.  S. 
Thompson,  C.  L.  Diehl,'  A.  E.  Ebert,  B.  Lillard,  R.  Rickey,  C.  W. 
Badger,  J.  T.  Buck,  S.  S.  Garrigues,  C.  A.  Tufts,  H.  C.  Porter,  H. 
A.  Vogelbach,  A.  A.  Kleinschmidt,  Chas.  Eimer,  Geo.  Leis  and  H. 
