THE  AMERICAN 
JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY. 
OCTOBER,  1876. 
THE  TWENTY-FOURTH  ANNUAL  MEETING  OF  THE  AMERICAN 
PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
The  Committee  of  Arrangements  appointed  by  the  Association  in 
1875,  and  the  Local  Committee  of  Pharmacists  and  Druggists  had  ac- 
cepted the  offer  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  the  Trustees 
of  which  institution  had  placed  the  College  building  at  the  service  of 
the  Association.  It  having  been  found  impossible  to  secure  good  ac- 
commodations for  all  the  expected  members  at  any  one  or  two  con- 
tiguous hotels,  owing  to  the  throng  of  visitors  to  the  International 
Exposition,  the  College  building  was  selected  as  the  general  head- 
quarters and  place  for  holding  the  meeting.  The  main  hall  was  taste- 
fully decorated  with  exotic  plants,  most  of  them  yielding  medicinal 
products,  loaned  for  the  occasion  from  the  conservatory  of  Prof.  G. 
W.  Wood,  and  served  as  a  general  reception  and  reading-room  ;  the 
adjoining  library  was  arranged  as  the  office  of  the  Actuary  and  of  the 
Local  Reception  Committee,  and  provided  with  facilities  for  writing 
letters.  The  sessions  were  held  in  the  lower  lecture-room,  which  was 
decorated  with  the  coats-of-arms  of  the  United  States,  the  State  of 
Pennsylvania  and  city  of  Philadelphia,  and  portraits  of  some  of  the  de- 
ceased members  of  the  Association  adorned  the  walls.  The  upper 
lecture-room  and  the  laboratory  were  thrown  open  to  afford  the  visitors 
ample  opportunity  to  inspect  at  their  leisure  the  entire  building  of  the 
College. 
First  Session — Tuesday  afternoon,  September  12. 
President  Markoe  called  the  meeting  to  order  at  3J  o'clock  P.  M., 
about  300  members  being  present  at  the  time.  J.  M.  Maisch  acted  as 
Secretary.  The  chair  appointed  a  Committee  on  Credentials,  con- 
sisting of  Messrs.  Wm.  Neergaard,  New  York  \  W.  J.  M.  Gordon, 
Cincinnati,  and  Joseph  P.  Remington,  Philadelphia.  While  the  com- 
as 
