'^'"juYy^isgo.^'"'"}  Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations,         3  8  2 
Third  session.  The  Association  met  at  2.  P.  M.  to  listen  to  the  lecture  of  Prof. 
Remington  on  the  metric  system.  At  the  close  of  this  address,  3  P.  M.,  the  presi- 
dent called  the  Association  to  order  and  announced  the  following  committees  :  Com- 
mittee on  Trade  Interests  and  Legislation — Dr.  Geo.  Ross,  Wm.  Harris,  Jay  H,. 
Boher,  W.  D.  E.  Hayes,  Wm.  L.Turner,  Dr.  H.  B.  Parry,  John  A.  Weaver,  John 
P.  Thompson,  J.  W.  Landis  and  Thomas  Deibert.  Committee  on  Adulterations 
and  Sophistications — Geo.  A.  Kelly,  Alonzo  Robbins  and  C.  H.  Cressler.  Com- 
mittee on  Papers  and  Queries — Samuel  Campbell,  W.  F.  Horn  and  James  B.  Cherry. 
Committee  on  Ethics  and  Local  and  Private  Formulas — Charles  T.  George,  John  B.. 
Raser,  Herman  Rabenan,  Samuel  Campbell  and  C.  C.  Hagenbuch.  Committee  on 
Apprentices  relating  to  the  drug  business — P.  M.  Ziegler,  Dr.  Wm.  H.  Egle  and 
Jos.  P.  Remington.  Delegates  to  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association — L.  H,. 
Harris,  Jacob  H.  Stein,  C.  L.  Lochman,  J.  A.  Meyers  and  Charles  C.  Klump. 
Delegates  to  the  New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Association — P.  S.  Brugh  and  Robert 
Walch.  Delegates  to  the  New  York.  State  Pharmaceutical  Association — Charles 
A.  Heinitsh  and  V.  E.  Shaw. 
A  vote  of  thanks  was  given  Prof.  Remington  for  his  valuable  and  interesting 
lecture. 
An  hour  was  occupied  in  general  interchange  of  views  among  the  members  regard- 
ing the  met  its  and  the  best  mode  of  manufacturing  certain  pharmaceutical  pre- 
parations. 
Mr.  Charles  T.  George  was  asked  to  prepare  a  paper  on  the  relative  value  of  the 
various  extracts  of  meat  in  the  market,  which  he  promised  to  have  ready  for  the 
next  annual  meeting. 
Prof.  Remington  offered  the  following : 
Resol'vedj  That  the  chairman  on  papers  and  queries  be  requested  to  secure  from 
members  as  many  promises  to  answer  queries  as  possible  at  the  time  of  the  meetings. 
Dr.  Purcell  offered  the  following  amendment  to  the  By-laws,  Art.  i,  ch.  2d.: 
After  the  words  "  professional  standing"  shall  be  inserted  "of  not  less  than  twenty- 
one  years  of  age  and  three  consecutive  years  of  practical  experience,"  which  was 
laid  over  till  next  meeting, 
Mr.  Lemberger  offered  a  resolution  that  the  secretary  be  authorized  to  send  a  Copy 
of  the  Proceedings  to  the  president,  secretary  and  chairman  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee of  each  State  Pharmaceutical  Association,  which  was  adopted. 
Mr.  George  presented  a  copy  of  the  report  on  the  revision  of  the  Pharmacopoeia, 
which  was  prepared  by  the  committee  appointed  by  the  Association  last  year  and 
handed  in  to  the  Decennial  Convention  which  met  at  Wasliington  on  the  first 
Wednesday  of  May.  The  report  was  received  and  ordered  to  be  printed  with  the 
proceedings. 
There  being  no  further  business,  after  the  adoption  of  a  few  resolutions  of  thanks 
to  the  assistant  secretary,  Mr.  C.  C.  Klump,  the  druggists  of  Allentown,  the  citizens 
and  the  press,  the  Association  adjourned  to  meet  in  Williamsport  the  second  Tues- 
day in  June,  1881.  In  the  evening  the  members  were  handsomely  entertained  at  the 
Allen  House,  and  on  the  following  morning  forty-seven  members  and  ladies,  under 
the  escort  of  Mr.  M.  N.  Kline,  took  a  ride  over  the  Switchback. 
