442  Twenty-first  Annual  Meeting  of  the    \  Amq5u?; iP873*m* 
of  the  publication  of  the  annual  volume  of  transactions.  Dr.  Squibb 
moved  to  strike  it  out.  Agreed  to.  The  report,  as  amended,  was 
then  adopted. 
The  proposed  amendment  to  the  constitution  to  provide  for  a  sink- 
ing fund,  offered  last  year,  was  rejected. 
After  some  discussion  on  the  propriety  of  declining  in  advance  for 
future  meetings  all  invitations  to  excursions  until  the  labors  of  the 
Association  shall  have  been  performed,  the  Committee  on  the  next 
Annual  Meeting  presented  their  report,  recommending  the  Twenty- 
second  Annual  Meeting  to  be  held  in  the  city  of  Louisville,  on  the 
second  Tuesday  in  September,  1874.  The  report  was  received  and 
adopted  without  a  dissenting  vote,  and  Prof.  Emil  Scheffer  was,  by 
acclamation,  elected  Local  Secretary. 
The  reports  of  the  Committees  on  Legislation  and  on  the  Photo- 
graphic Album  were  read  and  the  Committees  discharged.  The  re- 
port of  the  Committee  on  Drug  Market  was  read  by  Mr.  Bedford, 
accepted  and  referred? 
The  President  appointed  the  following  Committee  on  Album :  P* 
W.  Bedford,  of  New  York,  Chairman  ;  C.  A.  Tufts,  of  New  Hamp- 
shire ;  R.  J.  Brown,  of  Kansas  ;  J.  P.  Remington,  of  Philadelphia, 
and  E.  H.  Sargent,  of  Chicago. 
The  President  also  announced  the  appointment  of  the  following 
Committee  on  "Ebert  prize  :"  Messrs.  Charles  Bullock,  Wilson  H. 
Pile  and  John  M.  Maisch,  of  Philadelphia. 
Prof.  Procter  read  a  valuable  essay  on  query  30,  "  What  shall  I 
read  and  where  shall  I  begin  ?"  Prof.  Lillard  a  voluntary  paper  on 
homoeopathic  pharmacy,  and  Dr.  Garrigues  on  American  bromine 
production.  The  latter  also  exhibited  oak  galls  collected  by  him 
near  Huntington,  W.  Va.  Dr.  Squibb  stated  that  galls  from  the 
oak  and  sumach  had  been  used  for  making  gallic  acid. 
The  following  papers  were  read  :  On  poisons  and  the  protection 
against  their  improper  use,  by  C.  L.  Eberle ;  On  the  insect  enemies 
of  drugs,  and  On  the  Mexican  honey  ant,  by  William  Saunders ;  On 
a  general  apparatus  stand,  etc.,  and  On  ergot  and  its  preparations, 
by  Dr.  Squibb ;  On  the  proper  alcohol  strength  of  tincture  of  Colom- 
bo, by  C.  L.  Eberle ;  On  the  purity  of  commercial  tartaric  acid,  by 
H.  J.  Rose.  After  some  verbal  remarks  on  under-  and  over-hydrated 
chloral,  by  Prof.  Diehl,  query  34  was  dropped. 
Mr.  J.  F.  Hancock  read  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Elixirs, 
etc.,  which  was  accepted  and  the  Committee  discharged.  It  was  then 
