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nracy.  It  would  pay  the  apothecaries  well  to  allow  their  clerks 
to  attend  such  an  institution,  to  say  nothing  of  the  beneficial  re- 
sults to  the  next  generation,  and  the  embryo  pharmacentists 
now  growing  up.  Its  effect  in  raising  the  status  of  this  or  some 
other  permanent  pharmaceutical  association,  could  not  be  over  es- 
timated. 
Mr.  Stearns  said  the  social  advantages  of  such  establishments 
ought  not  to  be  lost  sight  of.  They  would  serve  to  increase  and 
extend  the  amenities  of  life,  and  rub  off  the  rough  corners  and 
asperities  of  trade  jealousy,  which  naturally  exist  to  a  certain 
extent  among  those  of  the  same  trade  or  profession. 
On  motion  of  Dr.  Squibb,  a  reasonable  time  was  allowed  to 
Mr.  Enno  Sander,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  the  Progress 
of  Pharmacy,  to  finish  his  report  for  publication.  The  Commit- 
tee on  the  drug  trade  not  having  made  a  report,  they  were  ex- 
cused from  doing  so  this  year.  ' 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Scientific  Queries  was  read  by 
the  Chairman,  Prof.  Procter,  and  embraced  thirty-four  queries. 
The  report  was  accepted  and  the  Committee  directed  to  get  the 
queries  accepted  by  members  for  report  at  the  meeting  in  1867. 
Dr.  Squibb,  as  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  the  Pharma- 
copoeia, read  an  interesting  paper  designated  "An  improved  pro- 
cess for  officinal  Fluid  Extract  of  Buchu,"  in  which  he  gives  a 
criticism  on  some  pharmacopoeial  language,  and  explains  in  detail 
his  mode  of  manipulation,  whereby  a  smaller  amount  of  alcohol 
will  exert  greater  solvent  effect  than  in  the  officinal  process,  by 
operating  on  the  buchu  in  fractions.  The  report  was  accepted 
and  referred  for  publication. 
On  motion,  the  Association  proceeded  to  the  reading  and  discus- 
sion of  the  Scientific  Queries  proposed  at  the  last  Annual  Meet- 
ing. 
Query  1.  On  Steam-heating  Apparatus,  operated  by  gas  or 
petroleum  heat,  for  shop  use,  was  accepted  by  Prof.  Procter,  who 
stated,  in  reply,  that  he  had  not  been  able  to  give  the  time  re- 
quisite to  carry  out  his  ideas  of  a  correct  answer  to  the  query  in 
practice,  and  requested  it  to  be  continued  until  next  year,  which 
was  acceded  to. 
Query  2.  "  Pharmaceutical  Business — its  management;"  was 
