^"'  ocCis^zsr™'}    American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  437 
Messrs.  W.  J.  M.  Gordon,  of  Cincinnati,  and  S.  M.  Colcord,  of 
Boston,  were  appointed  a  Committee  to  conduct  the  President-elect  to 
the  chair.  Prof.  Marlcoe  not  being  in  the  Hall,  the  first  Vice-Pres- 
ident, Dr.  Fred.  Hoffmann,  took  the  chair,  expressing  his  thanks  for 
the  honor  conferred. 
The  report  of  the  Executive  Committee,  which  was  read  by  the 
Chairman,  G.  W.  Kennedy,  referred  to  the  early  publication  of  the 
Proceedings  "  for  1874,  which  were  embellished  with  the  portrait  of 
the  late  Professor  Procter  ;  steps  had  been  taken  to  procure  for  the 
next  volume  the  portrait  of  the  late  Prof.  Edward  Parrish. 
Since  the  organization  of  the  Society  there  had  been  a  total  mem- 
bership of  1,697  '  lost  by  death,  136;  droppedfor  various  causes,  477  ; 
resigned,  lOi,  leaving  a  balance  of  983.  The  total  number  of  hon- 
orary members  was  thirty,  of  whom  ten  had  died. 
The  report  closed  with  obituary  notices  of  the  former  Presidents  of 
the  Association,  W.  B.  Chapman,  of  Cincinnati,  and  John  Milhau,  of 
New  York  ;  of  one  former  Vice-President,  Thomas  Hollis,  of  Boston  ; 
the  following  members,  Hugo  Hensch,  of  Cleveland  ;  A.  P.  Melzar, 
of  Wakefield,  Mass.;  Isaac  Coddington  and  Andrew  J.  Tully  of  New 
York  ;  William  Brown,  of  Boston,  and  Thomas  A.  Lancaster,  of 
Philadelphia  ;  and  of  the  honorary  members,  M.  J.  Bailey,  of  New 
York,  and  Daniel  Hanbury,  of  London,  England. 
The  President-elect  having  arrived,  was  formally  presented  to  the 
Association,  and  after  expressing  his  thanks,  took  his  seat. 
The  report  of  the  Permanent  Secretary  which  was  afterwards  read, 
gave  an  account  of  some  causes  of  delay  in  issuing  the  Proceedings, 
referred  to  the  changes  in  arranging  the  material,  and  discussed  various 
matters  connected  with  the  next  annual  meeting.  Correspondence  in 
relation  to  the  intended  participation  in  framing  an  International  Phar- 
copaeia  was  now  in  progress.  It  was  recommended  that,  aside  from 
the  general  invitation  extended  to  all  pharmacists  through  the  Interna- 
tional Pharmaceutical  Congress  to  meet  with  this  Association  in  1876, 
in  Philadelphia,  the  officers  be  directed  to  correspond  with  the  various 
national  and  local  pharmaceutical  societies  upon  this  subject ;  that  a 
Committee  of  Arrangements  be  appointed  with  power  to  act  upon  the 
basis  of  the  committee's  report  presented  in  1873,  that  in  view  of  the 
Centennial  Exposition  in  1876,  no  exhibition  be  held  in  connection 
with  the  next  meeting  except  for  such  articles  which  may  be  needed  for 
illustrating  papers  to  be  read  ;  and  that  the  various  pharmaceutical  soci- 
