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tion  of  the  National  Formular5%  the  examination  of  the  treasurer's  books,  the 
reports  of  committees,  etc.  The  minutes  were  approved  and  the  reading  of  the 
reports  postponed  until  the  next  session.  Several  amendments  to  the 
by-laws  were  offered  and  laid  over,  and  an  invitation  from  the  California  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy  was  extended  for  holding  the  next  meeting  in  San  Francisco. 
This  brought  forth  a  proposition  for  the  appointment  of  a  committee  of  fifteen 
— twelve  to  be  nominated  from  the  floor,  and  three  by  the  chair — whose  de- 
cision as  to  the  time  and  place  of  the  next  meeting  should  be  final,  provided 
that  two  public  hearings  be  given.  The  proposition  w^as  voted  down  and  a 
motion  for  the  appointment  of  a  committee  of  three  prevailed,  this  committee 
to  report  at  the  next  session.  Messrs.  Painter,  Remington  and  Bedford  were 
appointed  this  committee,  and  an  adjournment  was  had  until  Tuesday  morn- 
ing. 
Second  Session. — The  first  business  transacted  after  the  approval  of  the  min- 
utes of  the  first  session  and  of  the  Council's  session,  was  the  election  of  the  fol- 
lowing officers  for  the  ensuing  year  : 
M.  W.  Alexander,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  president;  James  Vernor,  Detroit,  F. 
Wilcox,  Waterbury,  Conn.,  A.  A.  Yeager,  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  vice-presidents ;  S. 
A.  D.  Sheppard,  Boston,  treasurer ;  J.  M.  Maisch,  Philadelphia,  secretary  ;  and 
Henry  Canning,  Boston,  C.  L.  Keppler,  New  Orleans,  and  Emlen  Painter,  New 
York,  members  of  Council  for  three  years. 
A  cable  message  conveying  "  fraternal  greetings  from  British  Pharmaceutical 
Conference  meeting  at  Bath,"  and  signed  by  the  President,  F.  Baden  Benger, 
was  read,  and  ordered  to  be  acknowledged.  It  is  strange  that  when  the  secre- 
tary stated  that  the  Conference  was  no  longer  in  session,  none  of  the  members 
present  appeared  to  be  better  informed  ;  hence  the  acknowledgment  was  not 
sent  by  cable,  but  subsequently  by  letter. 
Greetings  by  telegraph  were  also  received  from  ex-President  William  Saun- 
ders, then  sojourning  at  Victoria,  British  Columbia,  in  the  service  of  the  Cana- 
dian government. 
Prof.  Diehl  read  the  introductory  portion  of  his  report  on  the  progress  of 
pharmacy,  which  created  some  discussion.  On  the  alleged  substitution  by 
Berlin  apothecaries.  Dr.  James,  of  St.  Louis,  stated  that  prescriptions  ordering 
bogus  remedies  had  been  gotten  up  by  homoeopathic  practitioners  and  sent  to 
homoeopathic  dispensaries,  at  some  of  which  the  prescriptions  were  dispensed. 
The  intercourse  between  physicians  and  pharmacists  in  scientific  societies  was 
discussed  by  Dr.  F.  E.  Stewart,  Prof.  Remington  and  Dr.  Eccles,  and  the  good  re- 
sults for  both  professions  from  such  an  intercourse  were  pointed  out ;  it  was  con- 
tended that  the  progressive  members  of  both  professions  favored  such  a  step; 
and  that  a  section  on  pharmacy  in  the  American  Medical  Association  should 
have  a  counterpart  in  a  section  on  therapeutics  in  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association. 
Mr.  De  Forest  read  the  final  report  of  the  Committee  on  National  Formulary, 
giving  an  account  of  the  manner  in  which  the  work  was  finished,  and  making 
various  suggestions,  those  relating  to  a  future  revision  of  the  Formulary  being 
embodied  in  two  resolutions  which  were  adopted  as  follows  : 
Resolved,  that  a  Committee  on  National  Formulary  be  appointed  at  the  An- 
nual Meeting  following  the  publication  of  a  revision  of  the  work,  the  said  com- 
mittee to  hold  office,  unless  otherwise  directed  by  the  Association  until  their 
