506  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {Am"SS^mLm' 
Whereas,  The  purchaser  of  a  medicine  selected  by  himself,  has  the  right 
to  receive  information  of  its  constituents  and  their  qualities  ;  and 
Whereas,  The  report  and  the  draft  of  a  law  regulating  the  sale  of  proprie- 
tary medicines,  which  were  accepted  by  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  at  its  meeting  held  in  September,  1885,  embrace  a  method 
whereby  the  above  mentioned  objects  may  be  secured ;  therefore,  be  it 
Resolved,  That  the  President  and  other  officers  of  the  Association  be 
authorized  and  instructed  to  present  printed  copies  of  the  reports  and  of 
the  action  had  in  this  Association  upon  said  reports,  to  the  Governors,  to 
the  Speakers  of  the  Senates  and  Houses  of  Representatives,  and  to  the  State 
Boards  of  Health  of  the  different  States  of  the  United  States ;  also  to  offer 
any  services  wherein  these  authorities  may  consider  the  co-operation  of  this 
Association  desirable  or  useful. 
A  motion  by  Mr.  Macmahan  to  strike  out  the  resolution  was  defeated  by 
a  vote  20  ayes  and  47  nays  ;  and  after  a  motion  by  Mr.  E.  A.  Say  re,  to  lay 
it  on  the  table  was  lost,  the  resolution  was  adopted. 
A  report  by  Mr.  Sloan,  on  the  best  time  for  holding  the  annual  meeting 
was  presented.  Of  a  total  of  781  members.  345  had  designated  the  month 
of  September,  14-5  August,  and  118  October,  as  the  most  suitable  month,  the 
other  173  votes  being  divided  among  the  remaining  nine  months.  The  cor- 
respondence had  also  elicited  the  information  that  many  pharmacists  could 
not  afford  the  expense  of  time  and  money  necessary  in  attending,  and  that 
a  number  of  valued  members  were  not  in  sympathy  with  the  entertainment 
methods ;  it  was  therefore  suggested  to  drop  entirely  the  subject  of  enter- 
tainments. 
Mr.  Kline  read  the  report  on  the  drug  market,  prepared  by  him,  in  place 
of  the  chairman  who  had  been  prevented.  The  report  gives  the  average 
prices  of  the  more  important  drugs,  and  discusses  the  causes  that  lead  to  an 
increase  or  decline. 
Mr.  Lemberger  read  the  report  of  the  committee  that  had  attended  the 
meeting  of  the  National  Wholesale  Druggists'  Association;  the  committee 
from  the  latter  was  formally  received,  and  another  committee  was  appointed 
to  attend  the  next  meeting  in  St.  Paul. 
Further  reports  were  read  on  publication,  on  prize  essays,  and  on  the 
national  unofficinal  formulary;  the  latter  report  made  a  number  of  sugges- 
tions, having  in  view  the  publication  of  a  preliminary  draft  of  such  a  formu- 
lary, and  its  perfection  before  final  adoption. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  the  president's  address  was  ordered  to  be 
printed  and  made  the  special  order  for  10  o'clock  on  Thursday  morning ; 
and  the  Committee  on  the  next  annual  meeting  was  requested  to  report  im- 
mediately afterward. 
The  third  and  subsequently  also  the  fifth  session  were  set  apart  exclu- 
sively for  the  reading  of  papers. 
Fourth  Session. — A  motion  was  made  by  Mr.  Redsecker,  that  in  addition 
to  the  five  members  who  constituted  the  Committee  on  unofficinal  formulas 
during  the  past  year,  there  shall  also  be  appointed  one  member  of  each 
State  Association,  all  of  whom  to  constitute  the  Committee  for  the  present 
year,  and  that  five  members  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for  the  transaction 
of  business.    This  was  adopted. 
