AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
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of  the  Proceedings  for  the  last  ten  years,  to  be  published- in  the  volume 
for  1871. 
Resolved,  That  the  President  be  directed  to  appoint  an  authorized 
agent,  where  needed,  in  the  different  States,  for  the  collection  of  dues, 
distribution  of  Proceedings,  &c.,  said  agent  to  be  designated  by  the 
Treasurer  and  Permanent  Secretary  of  the  Association.  A  list  of  the 
agents  to  be  published  in  the  Proceedings. 
Resolved,  That  a  committee  be  appointed  to  take  into  consideration 
the  suggestion  to  invite  the  International  Congress  of  Pharmaceutists  to 
meet  in  the  United  States  in  1876,  and  report  upon  it  in  1871. 
Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  five  be  appointed  to  report  upon  Legis- 
lative action  upon  Pharmacy  and  the  drug  trade  in  the  different  States  of 
the  Union. 
Dr.  Frederick  Hoffman  moved,  "  That  a  committee  of  three 
be  appointed  to  draft  an  address  of  felicitation,  embodying  the 
kind  sentiments  of  this  Association  on  the  occasion  of  the  50th 
anniversary  of  the  North  German  Apothecaries'  Association, 
and  to  forward  this  address  in  the  name  of  the  Association  to 
the  Permanent  President,  Mr.  William  Dankwortt,  in  Magde- 
burg." 
This  motion  was  carried,  and  Messrs.  Hoff'man,  Maisch  and 
Sargent  appointed  to  carry  it  into  eff*ect. 
Dr.  Squibb  moved  that  the  19th  annual  meeting  be  held  at 
the  place  and  time  recommended  by  the  Committee  in  the  report 
read  at  the  fourth  session,  which  was  carried. 
Mr.  Whitfield  nominated  Wm.  H.  Crawford,  of  St.  Louis,  for 
Local  Secretary,  and  his  election  was  carried. 
B'erris  Bringhurst  read  the  report  of  Committee  on  Specimens, 
which  was  accepted  and  the  Committee  discharged.  «, 
Dr.  Squibb,  at  the  request  of  the  Association,  explained  the 
process  for  making  chloral  hydrate,  the  properties  of  this  com- 
pound, and  its  impurities,  which  was  listened  to  with  marked 
interest. 
The  President  announced  the  following  Committees,  viz. : 
As  the  Committee  on  Legislation,  John  M.  Maisch,  Secretary  ; 
Ezekiel  H.  Sargent,  of  Illinois  ;  Robert  S.  McMurdy,  of  Albany, 
N.  Y. ;  Henry  J.  Menninger,  of  Raleigh,  N.  C. ;  Matthew  F. 
Ash,  Jackson,  Miss. 
