THE  AMERICAN 
JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY. 
OCTOBER,  1875. 
THE  TWENTY-THIRD  ANNUAL  MEETING  OF  THE  AMERICAN 
PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
The  new  Odd  Fellows'  building  on  Tremont,  corner  of  Berkeley 
street,  Boston,  Mass.,  had  been  secured  by  the  Local  Secretary  and 
the  Local  Committee  of  Arrangements  for  the  use  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  at  its  twenty-third  annual  meeting.  The 
sessions  were  held  in  Covenant  Hall,  and  were  well  attended,  the  hall 
being  crowded  at  the  opening  of  the  meeting,  about  four  hundred  per- 
sons being  then  present.  Adjoining  the  ante-room  were  two  or  three 
spacious  apartments  for  the  use  of  committees  and  members,  the 
spacious  and  well-lighted  hall  in  the  upper  story  being  used  for  the  ex- 
hibition, and,  in  an  adjoining  large  hall,  dinner  was  served  between  the 
morning  and  afternoon  sessions,  for  those  members  who  were  desirous 
of  being  in  attendance  promptly  at  the  opening  of  the  next  session. 
First  Session — Tuesday  afternoon.^  September  ']th. 
Shortly  after  the  appointed  time,  3  o'clock  P.  M.,  the  meeting  was 
called  to  order  by  the  President,  Prof.  C.  L.  Diehl,  of  Louisville,  Ky., 
who  appointed  Messrs.  J.  D.  Wells,  of  Cincinnati  ;  Charles  Bullock, 
of  Philadelphia,  and  G.  J.  Luhn,  of  Charleston,  S.  Carolina,  a  Com- 
mittee on  Credentials.  After  the  Committee  had  retired  to  attend  to 
their  duty,  the  President  delivered  his  annual  address,  which  was  mainly 
devoted  to  scientific  matters.  Referring  briefly  to  the  scientific  labors 
of  pharmacists  in  the  past,  he  pointed  out  the  changes  that  have  taken 
place  in  the  relation  of  pharmacy  to  general  science,  that  many  chem- 
icals which  were  formerly  prepared  in  the  pharmacist's  laboratory  are 
now  made  pure  and  at  a  less  cost,  on  a  large  scale,  and  that,  as  a  con- 
sequence, the  pharmacist  directs  his  attention  to  the  determination  of 
the  purity  of  the  purchased  articles,  and  to  the  preparation  of  galen- 
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