Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  "I 
Oct.,  1883.  J 
Editorials. 
54;^ 
A  motion  that  William  C.  Bakes  be  requested  to  act  in  the  future  as 
Recorder  in  the  place  of  Samuel  F.  Troth  was  adopted. 
This  being  the  semi-annual  meeting,  an  election  for  three  Trustees,  and 
one  to  fill  the  unexpired  term  of  F.  B.  Power,  resigned,  was  ordered  by  the 
President,  who  appointed  Messrs.  Andrew  Blair  and  J.  W.  Worthington 
tellers.  A  ballot  being  taken,  the  tellers  re^wrted  the  following  gentlemen 
elected  for  three  years,  viz. :  Alonzo  Bobbins,  Edwin  M.  Boring,  William 
Mclntyre,  term  ending  Sept.,  1886;  and  for  the  unexpired  terra  of  Prof. 
Frederick  B.  Power,  resigned,  Wallace  Procter,  term  ending  March,  1885. 
Then,  on  motion,  adjourned. 
William  J.  Jenks,  Secretary. 
EDITORIAL  DEPARTMENT. 
The  Meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association 
has  been  a  success  in  more  than  one  respect.  Not  only  was  it  the  largest 
meeting  ever  held  by  the  Association,  with  the  sole  exception  of  the  one 
held  in  1876,  when  the  Centennial  Exposition  then  in  progress,  was  an 
additional  powerful  finducement  for  the  members  to  arrange  their  businesg 
affairs  for  a  prolonged  absence  from  home;  but  it  was  likewise  quite  pro- 
ductive in  the  presentation  of  important  papers  and  in  discussions  on  practical 
and  scientific  subjects,  as  will  be  seen  by  a  perusal  of  the  condensed  report 
of  the  proceedings  and  of  the  papers  which  we  publish  in  full  or  in  abstract 
in  this  number. 
One  of  the  most  gratifying  exhibits,  to  accomplish  which  the  officers 
have  been  assiduously  laboring  in  the  past,  was  the  financial  statement, 
showing  not  only  a  cash  balance  on  hand  of  more  than  double  the  amount 
than  could  be  presented  at  any  previous  meeting,  but  in  addition  thereto 
nearly  |3,000  permanently  invested  for  general  or  special  purposes.  Aside 
from  the  honest  performance  by  the  elective  officers  and  committees  of 
their  assumed  duties,  this  result  is  due  to  the  promptness  with  which  nearly 
all  the  members  responded  to  the  Treasurer's  call,  and  to  the  faithfulness 
with  which  the  authorized  agents  attended  to  the  sometimes  unpleasant 
duty  of  dunning  the  tardy  ones  for  the  just  dues.  The  life  membership 
fund  has  in  four  years  nearly  reached  |1,000  ;  after  this  good  beginning,  it 
is  to  be  hoped  that  it  will  grow  more  rapidly,  so  that  the  object  of  such  a 
fund  may  soon  be  attained,  of  reducing  the  annual  dues  to  so  low  a  figure 
that  no  pharmacist  need  be  debarred,  for  pecuniary  reasons,  from  enjoying 
all  the  advantages  of  the  organization  and  its  annual  publications. 
During  a  long  series  of  years  it  has  happened  for  the  first  time  that  the 
weather  was  unpropitious  to  such  an  extent  that  much  of  the  planned 
relaxation  had  to  be  abandoned.  Still,  considering  the  work  done,  the 
unfavorable  state  of  the  weather  enabled  those  present  to  do  better  justice 
to  the  intellectual  treats  offered  to  them.  A  year  ago  the  holding  of  one 
session  each  day  was  inaugurated  ;  this  year  it  was  abandoned  through  the 
