436       ■         Nineteenth  Annual  Meeting  of  the 
not  dare  to  assume,  original  being  about  as  dangerous  an  assumption  as  one 
can  make.  If  you  look  at  them  you  will  find  they  are  such  notes  and  ideas  as 
strike  one  in  the  prosecution  of  a  retail  pharmacy  and  minor  manufactory,  in 
contradistinction  to  those  natural  to  a  professional." 
It  will  be  seen  that,  by  this  letter,  Mr.  Dickey  did  not  give  any  direct  author- 
ity to  the  Secretary  to  present  his  notes  to  the  Association,  but  under  the 
pressure  of  business,  it  had  been  hastily  construed  as  conferring  such  authori- 
ty. On  perusing  the  notes  they  were  found  to  contain  many  valuable  sugges- 
tions of  practical  importance,  and  the  Secretary  handed  them,  therefore,  over 
to  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  papers  and  queries,  to  present  them  if 
deemed  of  sufficient  value,  which  being  done,  the  Association  directed  the  re- 
turn of  the  paper  to  its  author.  While  it  is  painful  to  your  Secretary  to  have 
been  the  cause  of  placing  a  member  into  an  erroneous  position  before  the  As- 
sociation, it  is  but  just  to  Mr.  Dickey  that  this  statement  should  be  placed  on 
record. 
Nine  applications  for  membership  were  reported  by  the  Executive 
Committee  ;  the  balloting  resulted  in  their  unanimous  election. 
On  motion  of  Mr.  Sargent,  the  President  was  requested  to  appoint 
a  Committee  on  the  exhibition  and  on  specimens  at  this  meeting. 
Messrs.  C.  L,  Diehl,  Louisville,  Ky.  ;  Geo.  W.  Kennedy,  Pottsville, 
Pa. ;  and  John  E.  Hancock,  Baltimore,  Md.,  were  appointed. 
The  President's  annual  address  was  read  by  the  Permanent  Secre- 
tary, and,  on  motion,  referred  to  the  Business  Committee,  to  report 
on  the  suggestions  contained  therein,  after  which  the  Association  ad- 
journed until  Wednesday  morning,  at  9  o'clock. 
Second  Session —  Wednesday  Morning. 
After  the  reading  and  approval  of  the  minutes  of  the  first  session, 
the  Committee  on  Credentials  reported  that  they  had  received  the 
credentials  of  the  Mississippi  State  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
accrediting  Messrs.  W.  B.  Creecy  and  M.  F.  Ash  delegates  to  this 
meeting.  The  President  remarked  that  the  following  seven  new  asso- 
ciations were  represented  here  for  the  first  time,  and  extended  to  them 
a  cordial  welcome :  Alumni  Association  of  the  College  of  Pharmacy 
of  the  City  of  New  York,  Alumni  Association  of  the  Maryland  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy,  Columbia  Pharmaceutical  Association,  Louisville 
College  of  Pharmacy,  Kansas  College  of  Pharmacy,  Ontario  College 
of  Pharmacy  and  Mississippi  State  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
The  Committee  appointed  to  consider  the  admissibility  of  the  dele- 
gate from  the  University  of  Michigan  presented  the  following  report, 
which,  on  motion,  was  accepted  and  adopted  as  read : 
