434  Twenty- third  Annual  Meeting  of  the  {^"•Jct"i8^75.""' 
icals.  In  the  execution  of  these  duties,  new  and  interesting  veins  of 
information  are  often  discovered,  and  no  better  refutation  of  the  charge 
of  retrogression  in  pharmacy  need  be  adduced  than  the  annually  in- 
creasing activity  among  pharmaceutical  writers,  whose  writings,  while 
they  often  do  not  possess  high  scientific  value,  nevertheless  give  abund- 
ant evidence  of  improvement  in  the  standard  of  the  profession. 
Alluding  to  the  progress  made  in  the  various  branches  of  pharmacy. 
President  Diehl  reviewed  the  introduction  of  jaborandi  into  medicine, 
gave  an  interesting  historical  sketch  of  the  investigations  concerning 
digitalin  and  its  derivatives,  to  which  the  activity  of  digitalis  is  due,  and 
spoke  of  the  discovery  of  the  artificial  production  of  salicylic  acid  and 
its  antiseptic  properties.  Prof.  Diehl  referred  then  briefly  to  the  by- 
laws of  the  Association,  and  suggested  some  modifications,  prominent 
among  which  was  the  recommendation  to  permit  a  wider  scope  in  the 
selection  of  subjects  for  the  President's  annual  address,  to  unite  the 
two  committees  on  the  drug  market  and  on  adulterations  into  one,  and 
to  create  a  committee  for  the  examination  of  all  papers  previous  to 
publication,  and  with  the  power  to  refer  back  to  the  author  for  modifi- 
cation any  paper,  or  portion  of  such,  which  may  be  deemed  objec- 
tionable. 
The  address  was  listened  to  with  close  attention,  and  greeted  with 
applause  ;  on  motion,  the  suggestions  contained  therein  were  referred 
to  a  special  committee  for  further  consideration  and  report.  Messrs. 
Paul  BallufF,  of  New  York  ;  N.  H.  Jennings,  of  Baltimore,  and  J. 
L.  Lemberger,  of  Lebanon,  Pa.,  were  appointed  on  this  committee. 
Mr.  Bullock,  on  behalf  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  reported 
the  following  societies  to  be  represented  by  duly  accredited  delegates  : 
the  Colleges  of  Pharmacy  of  Philadelphia,  New  York,  Cincinnati, 
Massachusetts,  Maryland,  Louisville,  Ontario,  Washington,  D.  C, 
(National)  and  Tennessee  ;  the  Alumni  Associations  of  the  Colleges  of 
Pharmacy  of  Cincinnati,  New  York,  Philadelphia  (New  York  Asso- 
ciation), Massachusetts,  Philadelphia  and  Maryland  ;  the  Literary  and 
Scientific  Society  of  German  Apothecaries  of  New  York  ;  the  Phar- 
maceutical Associations  of  Newark,  Camden  county,  New  Jersey,  New 
Hampshire,  Rhode  Island,  Vermont,  Richmond  and  Tennessee.  The 
credentials  of  the  delegations  from  the  Pharmaceutical  Association  of 
the  Province  of  Quebec  and  the  Chicago  College  of  Pharmacy,  were 
received  at  subsequent  sessions. 
At  the  first  call  of  the  roll,  117  members  answered  to  their  names. 
