436  Twenty-first  Annual  Meeting  of  the  {k\5™Xmf*' 
S.  Lutz.  To  this  number  the  following  were  added  by  the  President 
from  the  Association  at  large :  Messrs.  A.  Boyd,  Utica,  0. ;  Wm. 
Heyser,  Chambersburg,  Pa;  A.  S.  Lee,  Raleigh,  N.  C. ;  Wm.  Vin- 
cent, Williamsburg,  N.  Y.,  and  Chas.  M.  Helm  an,  Cincinnati,  0. 
The  reports  of  the  Executive  Committee  and  Permanent  Secretary 
were  read;  the  former  reports  the  decease  of  the  following  active 
and  honorary  members :  Prof.  Edward  Parrish,  of  Philadelphia ; 
Kline  C.  Lineaweaver,  of  Washington,  D.  C. ;  T.  W.  Metcalf  and 
W.  E.  Bayliss,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. ;  Elias  Durand,  of  Philadelphia  ; 
Prof.  Dr.  J.  F.  H.  Ludwig,  of  Jena,  and  Dr.  C.  L.  Arthur  Cassel- 
mann,  of  St.  Petersburg,  Russia. 
The  report  of  the  Secretary  suggests  that  the  Association  grant 
permission  to  the  pharmaceutical  journals  of  this  country  to  print  the 
essays  and  volunteer  reports  in  advance  of  the  publication  of  the 
Proceedings.  The  incidental  expenses  during  the  year  amounted  to 
$402.53  of  which  sum  $79.65  was  for  freight,  and  $143.50  for 
postage.  An  editorial  note,  appended  to  page  280  of  the  last  volume 
of  Proceedings,  was  reported  to  be  erroneous  ;  the  note  which  should 
be  erased,  occurs  in  the  description  of  the  process  for  assaying  Seid- 
litz  powders,  as  followed  by  Mr.  C.  W.  Grassly,  and  is  as  follows: 
The  author  does  Dot  state  how  he  prevented  the  contamination  of  the  precipi- 
tated sulphate  of  baryta  with  bitartrate  of  polassa,  which  must  be  precipitated 
after  adding  acetic  and  muriatic  acids,  except  by  heating  the  resulting  liquid. 
A  letter  from  Mr.  Jas.  R.  Mercein,  of  Jersey  City,  one  of  the 
members  of  the  Committee  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy  for  the 
Year  1871-72,  was  read,  explaining  that  the  portion  of  the  annual 
report  which  he  had  agreed  to  furnish  had  been  finished  in  due  time, 
and  that  the  Chairman  of  that  Committee  had  been  duly  notified  by 
him  some  time  before  the  last  meeting  took  place,  but  had  failed  to 
answer.    It  was  then 
Resolved,  That  Mr.  Mercein  be  requested  to  present  his  report  on  the  pro. 
gress  of  pharmacy  for  the  year  1871-72  to  the  Association. 
Prof.  Diehl  offered  to  arrange,  if  necessary,  the  report  of  Mr. 
Mercein  for  publication,  which  was  accepted  by  resolution. 
The  Chair  appointed  the  following  Committee  on  Specimens  :  Dr. 
A.  W.  Miller,  of  Philadelphia;  M.  L.  M.  Peixotto,  of  New  York; 
Jos.  L.  Lemberger,  of  Lebanon,  Pa.  ;  G.  J.  Luhn,  of  Charleston, 
South  Carolina ;  and  David  Hays,  of  New  York.  At  the  next  ses- 
sion Mr.  Peixotto  was  excused  from  serving  on  this  Committee,  and 
Mr.  W.  H.  Scott,  of  Richmond,  appointed  in  his  place. 
