512  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  {A%Jcct%P79arnu 
mittee  on  the  Centennial  Fund  in  making  up  the  required  amount.  Professors  Bed- 
ford, Good  and  Diehl  were  named  for  this  service. 
An  amendment  to  the  by-laws,  proposed  by  Professor  Markoe,  requiring  the  offi- 
cers elected  to  take  their  respective  places  at  the  opening  of  the  last  session  instead^ 
of  immediately  after  election,  was  negatived  at  a  subsequent  session. 
On  motion,  Prof.  Remington  was  appointed  official  reader  of  such  papers  and1 
reports  which  are  not  read  by  their  authors. 
The  introductory  portion  to  the  report  on  the  progress  of  pharmacy  was  read  by- 
Prof.  Diehl  and,  together  with  the  entire  report,  referred  for  publication.  Action 
on  the  report  made  in  relation  to  uniformity  of  election  of  members  was  under  the 
rules  deferred  to  a  subsequent  session,  a  modification  of  the  by-laws  being  involved. 
Invitations  to  the  Association  to  hold  the  next  annual  meeting  in  Kansas  City, 
Mo.,  and  in  Saratoga,  N.  Y.,  were  read  and  referred  to  a  committee  of  three,  to- 
which  the  chair  appointed  Messrs.  Vincent  Davis,  of  Louisville ;  W.  H.  Crawford,, 
of  St.  Louis,  and  H.  E.  Griffith,  of  Niagara  Falls,  N.  Y.  The  Association  then 
proceeded  in  a  body  to  the  exhibition  room  for  the  purpose  of  examining  the  numer- 
ous articles  of  interest  shown,  and  subsequently  adjourned  until  3  o'clock  P.M. 
Third  Session,  Wednesday  Afternoon,  September  10th. — At  the  afternoon 
session  a  report  from  the  Committee  on  Invitations  was  read,  recommending  that 
the  Local  Committee  be  requested  to  make  arrangements  for  Friday  afternoou  after 
the  final  adjournment  for  visiting  certain  institutions  and  establishments  in  a  body. 
The  recommendation  was  adopted.  The  special  order  of  business  referred  to  this 
session  from  the  twenty-sixth  annual  meeting  was,  on  motion,  postponed  until 
Thursday  afternoon,  after  the  reception  of  the  reports  of  the  committees  on  the 
various  annual  reports. 
The  Committee  on  Prize  Essays  was  granted  further  time  in  view  of  the  late  date 
of  publishing  the  last  Proceedings  and  because  of  the  absence  in  Europe  of  Prof. 
Scheffer,  one  of  the  members  of  the  committee. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Legislation  gave  an  account  of  the  pharmacy 
laws  enacted  during  the  past  year,  one  for  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  an  amended  and 
improved  act  for  the  State  of  New  Jersey. 
An  essay  on  Eriodictyon  californicum  (yerba  santa),  by  Chas.  Mohr,  was  read  in 
answer  to  Query  4.  According  to  the  author's  analysis,  the  air-dry  drug  contains 
i2*5  per  cent,  of  moisture  and  43*31  per  cent,  of  wood  fibre  and  ash,  and  yields  to 
ether  14*98,  to  alcohol  10  79  and  to  water  18*42  per  cent,  of  its  constituents.  More 
than  one-half  of  the  etherial  extract  (8  parts)  consists  of  a  bitter,  acrid  and  brittle 
resin,  the  remainder  being  inert  green  coloring  matter,  caoutchouc,  a  little  wax  and 
a  small  quantity  of  tannin.  The  alcoholic  extract  contains  inert  resin  and  a  larger 
quantity  of  a  peculiar  glucoside  of  the  tannic  acid  series,  and  related  to  if  not  iden- 
tical with  that  found  by  the  same  author  in  Pycnanthemum  linifolium.  The  aque- 
ous extract  contains  the  same  tannin,  gum,  brown  extractive  and  a  trace  of  sugar. 
The  fluid  extract  should  be  prepared  with  alcohol  of  70  or  75  per  cent,  strength. 
The  reputed  medicinal  virtues  of  the  drug  appear  to  be  doubtful. 
Mr.  Geo.  W.  Kennedy  read  a  paper  in  answer  to  Query  10,  on  fluid  extract  and 
syrup  of  senega,  which  the  author  recommends  to  prepare  by  exhausting  the  root 
