^*^ocrr,f8™  }  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  435 
Mr.  Wqi.  Wright,  Jr.,  acting  in  place  of  the  Chairman  of  the  Ex- 
ecutive Committee,  reported  the  names  of  seventy-nine  applicants  for 
membership,  who  were  duly  elected,  Messrs.  Rice,  of  New  York,  and 
Webb,  of  Baltimore,  acting  as  tellers. 
The  reports  of  the  following  Committees  were  read  by  their  titles 
and  laid  upon  the  table  for  future  action:  Executive  Committee  with 
the  report  of  the  Permanent  Secretary  ;  Committee  on  the  Drug 
Market ;  Committee  on  Papers  and  Queries  ;  Committee  on  Unof- 
ficinal  Formulas ;  Committee  on  Adulterations  and  Sophistications ; 
Committee  on  Legislation ;  Committee  on  the  International  Pharma- 
ceutical Congress.  The  report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Progress  of 
Pharmacy,  it  was  stated,  had  not  come  to  hand,  but  Mr.  Wenzell,  the 
Chairman,  intended  to  have  it  present,  and  it  was  hoped  that  it  would 
arrive  before  the  final  adjournment. 
The  Committee  to  nominate  officers  for  the  ensuing  year  was  then 
appointed,  each  delegation  nominating  one  from  their  number,  as  fol- 
lows :  Prof.  G.  F.  H.  Markoe,  Chas.  A.  Tufts,  Wm.  Wright,  Jr., 
J.  W.  Ballard,  E.  P.  Nichols,  M.  D.,  Ch.  H.  Dalrymple,  Prof.  Wm. 
Procter,  Jr.,  Wm.  H.  Baser.  J.  N.  Potts,  J.  F.  Hancock,  Z.  W.  Crom- 
well,  C.  L.  Diehl,  M.  W.  Alexander,  Prof.  A.  E.  Ebert,  E.  T.  Por- 
ter, Wm.  Saunders.  In  addition  thereto,  the  President  appointed 
the  following  five  gentlemen  :  M.  F.  Ash,  Jackson,  Miss.  ;  Jos.  H. 
Larwill,  Bolivar,  Tenn.  ;  W.  J.  M.  Gordon,  Cincinnati  ;  Jos.  L. 
Lemberger,  Lebanon,  Pa.  ;  and  Cyrus  Pyle,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
The  reports  of  the  Executive  Committee  and  of  the  Permanent 
Secretary  were  read  and  accepted ;  the  former,  after  relating  to  busi- 
ness matters,  contains  obituary  notices  of  twelve  members  who  died 
within  the  past  year  ;  from  the  latter  we  copy  the  following,  which  ex- 
plains itself: 
The  Secretary  here  desires  to  call  your  attention  to  the  circumstances  con- 
nected with  an  action  of  the  Association  at  the  18th  annual  meeting,  in  regard 
to  the  disposition  made  of  a  paper  written  by  Mr.  George  S.  Dickey,  then  of 
San  Francisco,  Cal.  In  a  letter  dated  Sept.  1st,  1870,  received  by  me  on  the 
eve  of  starting  for  the  meeting,  Mr.  Dickey  wrote  as  follows  : 
"  I  wanted  to  be  in  Baltimore  by  this  time  but  could  not,  and  wishing,  if  I  did 
go,  to  aid  a  little  in  the  Proceedings,  I  pencilled  a  lot  of  notes  on  the  U.  S. 
Pharmacopoeia,  well  aware  that,  even  if  any  were  of  value,  they  were  too  late 
for  their  use  ;  still  some  might  be  used  in  future.  During  the  last  few  days  I  have 
hurriedly  written  these  out,  and  do  not  know  any  better  thing  than  send  them 
to  you  to  use.    How  much  of  these  is  original,  how  much  recollection,  I  would 
