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The  Report  of  the  Executive  Committee  was  now  read  and 
accepted.    The  following  is  an  abstract : 
The  Chairman,  Thomas  S.  Wiegand,  stated  that  the  delay  in 
the  publication  of  the  13th  volume  of  Proceedings  was  beyond 
the  control  of  either  editor  or  publisher,  and  depended  on  delay 
in  furnishing  the  completed  papers,  and  tardiness  in  replenishing 
the  treasury.  Its  cost,  with  some  other  printing  ordered,  was 
about  one  thousand  dollars. 
'  The  Report  speaks  of  but  few  applications  for  membership 
in  the  interim,  and  rather  discourages  the  increase  of  members, 
by  leaving  it  to  the  spontaneous  interest  of  the  profession. 
The  reference  to  deceased  members  includes  brief  notices  of 
J.  Lindley  Pyle,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. ;  Geo.  B.  Fish,  of  Sarato- 
ga, K  Y. ;  Dr.  Wm.  J.  Olliffe,  of  New  York  City ;  Jas.  Balmer, 
of  Baltimore  ;  and  L.  Groneweg,  of  Cincinnati. 
Mr.  Pyle  was  a  native  of  Chester  County,  Pa.,  aged  34,  and 
a  graduate  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy — Class  of 
1852.  In  1854  he  commenced  business  in  Brooklyn,  which  he 
conducted  in  a  creditable  manner  until  his  decease. 
Mr.  Fish  was  about  28  years  of  age  ;  his  studies  were  pursued 
under  the  direction  of  his  father,  Henry  F.  Fish,  of  Waterbury, 
Conn.  Those  best  acquainted  with  him  represent  him  to  have 
been  a  good  apothecary,  and  possessed,  of  a  kindly  disposition 
and  courteous  bearing. 
Dr.  Olliffe  died  in  September,  1865,  after  a  long  and  painful 
illness.  He  was  an  earnest  advocate  of  pharmaceutical  advance- 
ment, and  long  connected  with  the  New  York  College  of  Phar- 
macy. 
The  Chairman  refers  to  the  appended  Report  of  the  Perma- 
nent Secretary  as  embodying  the  chief  points  of  interest  in  the 
conduct  of  the  affairs  of  the  Association.  After  speaking  of  the 
publication  of  the  Proceedings,  this  document  refers  to  the  vari- 
ous Institutions  and  Journals  to  which  it  was  sent  in  Europe  and 
the  United  States.  Through  the  excellent  arrangements  of  the 
Smithsonian  Institution  at  "Washington,  packages  were  sent  to 
London,  Paris,  Antwerp,  Brussels,  Switzerland,  Bavaria,  Berlin, 
Vienna,  and  St.  Petersburg,  and  a  number  of  foreign  volumes 
returned  by  the  sam#  efficient  agency  to  the  Association  in  ex- 
change. 
