480 
PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 
selves  of  the  low  price  put  upon  the  work,  to  place  it  in  the  hands  of  such 
persons  as  it  is  desirable  to  enlist  in  the  cause  we  advocate.  The  commit- 
tee next  allude  to  the  stock  of  Proceedings  for  past  years,  and  have  but  a  few 
copies  of  most  of  them  left ;  of  the  volume  of  1857,  about  400  copies.  Those 
who  may  have  duplicate  copies  of  the  early  numbers  are  advised  to  forward 
them  to  the  Chairman  of  this  Committee,  to  aid  him  in  making  complete 
sets. 
The  blank  certificates  of  membership  being  exhausted,  a  new  edition  of 
200  was  obtained. 
This  Committee  reports  that  nine  members  were  made  during  the  in- 
terim, and  several  others  ready  to  be  brought  forward. 
The  Committee  had  not  succeeded  in  obtaining  an  act  of  incorporation 
from  Congress,  owing  to  the  absence  of  the  Washington  member  of  the 
Committee  during  the  Session  of  Congress.] 
The  following  Documents  were  then  read  by  their  titles,  and 
laid  on  the  table,  viz : 
Report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy. 
Report  of  the  Committee  on  Syllabus  of  a  Course  of  Study  ap- 
propriate for  the  Student  of  Pharmacy. 
Report  of  the  Committee  on  the  preliminary  Revision  of  the 
Pharmacopoeia. 
Report  of  the  Commmittee  on  Local  Unofficinal  Formulae. 
An  invitation  from  the  Washington  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion, to  the  visiting  delegates  and  members  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  to  visit  Mount  Vernon,  and  the 
tomb  of  Washington,  on  Thursday,  the  16th  inst.,  at  10  o'clock 
A.  M.,  was  read  and  accepted. 
On  a  motion  of  Mr.  Stearns  it  was  carried  that  when  we  ad- 
journ, we  shall  adjourn  to  meet  to-morrow  morning  at  nine 
o'clock. 
On  motion  of  John  L.  Kidwell,  the  following  was  unanimously 
carried  : 
Resolved,  That  D.  J.  Browne,  Esq.  of  the  Patent  Office,  Prof. 
Henry,  Prof.  Baird  and  Prof.  Craig  of  the  Smithsonian  Institu- 
tion, Professors  Curly,  Clarke  and  Riley  of  Georgetown,  and 
Commander  M.  F.  Maury  of  the  National  Observatory,  be  in- 
vited to  attend  the  meetings  of  this  Association,  and  present  to 
the  Association  any  remarks  they  may  be  disposed  to  offer. 
The  President  now  read  the  Annual  Address,  of  which  the 
following  is  an  abstract : 
