514  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  {Am*Jc",ri8^rm* 
prepared  from  the  drug.  An  infusion  of  wild  cherry  prepared  from  the  bark  is 
quite  superior  to  that  made  from  the  fluid  extract.  By  reducing  to  a  certain  extent 
the  alcoholic  strength  in  preparing  the  fluid  extracts  of  buchu,  rhubarb,  serpentaria 
and  valerian,  these  preparations  could  be  used  with  advantage  for  making  the  corres- 
ponding infusions.  In  the  preparation  of  decoctions  of  the  seven  drugs  of  which 
also  fluid  extracts  are  officinal,  better  results  were  obtained  in  each  instance  by  the 
use  of  the  latter  and  subsequent  filtration. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  for  Devising  an  Improved  Plan  for  the  Election  of 
Members  was  taken  up  and,  after  discussion,  adopted.  It  provides  for  the  announce- 
ment of  applications  for  membership  at  one  session  and  a  ballot  at  a  subsequent 
session,  when  a  vote  of  two-thirds  shall  be  sufficient  to  elect. 
The  same  committee  also  suggested  the  appointment  of  a  committee  of  five  to 
mature  a  plan  for  the  organization  of  a  business  council  who  should  be  charged  with 
the  duty  of  attending  to  all  matters  of  a  business  character,  and  thus  relieve  the 
Association  so  that  more  time  could  be  given  to  the  reading  and  discussion  of  papers 
and  essays  of  a  scientific  and  practical  character.  The  appointment  of  such  a  com- 
mittee being  ordered,  it  was  constituted  as  follows:  Messrs.  Remington,  Judge, 
Lloyd,  Markoe  and  Sargent.    It  will  report  at  the  next  annual  meeting. 
Mr.  Roberts  read  reports  of  the  Committees  on  the  President's  Address  and  on 
the  Secretary's  and  Treasurer's  Reports,  which  were  accepted  and  referred  to  Prof. 
Remington  for  the  purpose  of  formulating  such  portions  involving  a  change  of  the 
by-laws. 
The  Auditing  Committee  reported  that  they  had  found  the  Treasurer's  accounts 
correct. 
Prof.  Diehl  read  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Revision  of  the  Pharmacopoeia 
and  a  number  of  typical  formulas  and  other  abstracts,  for  the  purpose  of  showing 
the  manner  in  which  the  work  has  been  performed. 
A  paper  on  the  preparation  of  diluted  alcohol  (sp.  grav.  0*941)  from  a  stronger 
alcohol,  by  Prof.  Wm.  T.  Wenzell,  was  read.,  The  paper  gives  an  elaborate  expla- 
nation of  the  manner  in  which  the  figures  have  been  arrived  at,  and  concludes  with 
a  table,  according  to  which  diluted  alcohol  is  produced  from  alcohol  having  the 
at  6o°F.  or 
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