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Announcements. 
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schools  connected  with  incorporated  colleges  and  universities ;  incor- 
porated colleges  of  pharmacy,  and  pharmaceutical  schools  connected 
with  incorporated  universities ;  incorporated  state  medical  associa- 
tions ;  incorporated  state  pharmaceutical  associations ;  the  American 
Medical  Association,  and  the  American  Chemical  Society ;  provided 
that  no  such  organization  shall  be  entitled  to  representation  unless  it 
shall  have  been  incorporated  wihin  and  shall  have  been  in  continu- 
ous operation  in  the  United  States  for  at  least  five  years  before  the 
time  fixed  for  the  decennial  meeting  of  this  corporation." 
Section  II  of  the  Constitution  provides : 
"  Delegates  appointed  by  the  Surgeon-General  of  the  United  States 
Army,  the  Surgeon-General  of  the  United  States  Navy,  and  the 
Surgeon-General  of  the  United  States  Marine-Hospital  Service, 
the  Secretary  of  Agriculture,  the  Secretary  of  Commerce  and 
Labor,  the  Association  of  Official  Agricultural  Chemists,  the  Asso- 
ciations of  State  and  National  Food  and  Dairy  Departments,  the 
National  Wholesale  Druggists  Association,  and  the  National  Dental 
x^ssociation/and  by  the  organizations  not  hereinbefore  named  which 
were  admitted  to  representation  in  the  Convention  of  1900,  shall 
also  be  members  of  the  corporation.  Each  body  and  each  branch 
of  the  United  States  Government  above  mentioned  shall  be  entitled 
to  send  three  delegates  to  the  meetings  of  this  corporation.  But  no 
such  delegates  as  are  provided  for  in  this  article  shall  be  members 
until  their  credentials  shall  have  been  examined  and  acted  upon  as 
provided  for  by  the  By-Laws." 
In  the  discharge  of  the  above  required  duties,  I  hereby  ask  all 
competent  and  designated  bodies  and  authorities  to  name  and  issue 
credentials  to  the  fixed  number  of  delegates  to  the  tenth  decennial 
Convention  to  meet  in  Washington,  D.  C,  on  the  second  Tuesday  of 
May,  1920,  at  10  o'clock  a.m.  at  a  hall  to  be  designated  hereafter. 
The  appointed  delegates  are  requested  to  promptly  forward  their 
credentials  to  Noble  P.  Barnes,  M.D.,  The  Arlington  Hotel,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  assistant  secretary  of  the  Convention,  who  will  file 
them  for  consideration  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  which  will 
be  appointed  by  the  president  not  later  than  March  first,  1920,  ac- 
cording to  the  requirements  Chapter  VII,  Article  I  of  the  By-Laws. 
Done  at  Washington,  D.  C,  May  5,  1919. 
Harvey  W.  Wiley, 
President  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia!  Convention. 
