444  Nineteenth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  { 
Am.  Jour.  Phar>*- 
Oct.  1, 1871. 
ing,  was  laid  before  the  Association.  It  proposes  to  abolish  the  stand- 
ing Committees,  and  to  elect  annually  a  Committee  of  15  members, 
to  transact  all  necessary  business  of  the  Association,  including  the 
election  of  members,  such  action  to  be  duly  reported  to  the  Associa- 
tion for  approval. 
Subsequently  Prof.  Parrish  offered  the  following,  which  was  agreed 
to: 
Resolved,  That  the  Business  Committee  be  requested  to  consider  the  expe- 
diency of  a  Board  of  Direction,  which  shall  meet  simultaneously  with  the  Asso- 
ciation, and  shall  transact  all  its  business,  including  the  election  of  members, 
subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Association  ;  the  proposed  Board  of  Direction 
to  be  composed  of  the  officers  of  the  Association,  the  Business  Committee,  the 
Committee  on  Papers  and  Queries,  and  the  Executive  Committee  ;  the  Com- 
mittee to  report  at  the  first  session  of  the  next  meeting-  of  this  Association. 
The  following  report  was  read,  and  the  recommendations  contained 
therein  unanimously  agreed  to  : 
The  Committee  on  the  "Index"  further  report,  ie  view  of  the  great  amount 
of  labor  and  time  cheerfully  given  by  Mr.  Wiegand  to  the  Association,  in  the 
preparation  of  the  general  Index,  that  some  substantial  acknowledgment  be 
presented  to  that  gentleman,  with  the  sincere  thanks  of  this  Association  for 
his  disinterested  labors,  and  that  the  Treasurer  be  authorized  to  pay  Mr.  Wie- 
gand one  hundred  dollars. 
Respectfully  submitted, 
William  Procter,  Jr., 
Thomas  Doliber. 
The  following  papers  were  read  and  referred  :  On  Fluid  Extract  of 
Senega,  by  H.  N.  Rittenhouse ;  on  the  same  subject,  by  Prof.  E.  R. 
Squibb  :  on  the  Alcoholic  Extracts  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia,  by 
Wm.  Saunders;  on  the  Purity  of  Commercial  Tartar  Emetic,  by  Jos. 
P.  Remington ;  on  Plants  Useful  as  Insecticides,  by  Dr.  S.  S.  Gar- 
rigues ;  on  Extract  of  Jalap,  by  Dr.  E.  R.  Squibb. 
Prof.  Curtman,  of  the  Missouri  Medical  College,  obtained  the  floor, 
and  stated  that  a  pharmaceutical  still  was  on  exhibition  at  this  meet' 
ing,  on  which,  in  connection  with  a  coal-oil  furnace,  a  patent  was 
claimed  in  favor  of  Rob.  B.  Mitchell,  of  Chicago.  The  Doctor  said 
that  in  1865  he  had  invented  a  new  capitol  for  the  Procter  still,  and 
had  presented  the  still,  complete,  to  his  students  in  the  Missouri  Med- 
ical College.  He  had  also  written  an  explanatory  article  on  it,  which 
appeared,  with  illustrations,  in  the  St.  Louis  Medical  Record,  and  in 
American  Journal  of  Pharmacy  ioY  1869.    This  article  was  copied 
