AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
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tinent  speech  returned  his  thanks  for  the  honor  conferred  upon 
him,  and  promised  his  best  exertions  for  the  promotion  of  the 
interests  of  the  Association  after  which,  on  motion,  the  thanks 
of  the  Association  were  tendered  to  the  temporary  chairman, 
for  his  able  services  in  the  organization  of  the  meeting. 
The  names  of  John  Milhau  and  Oliver  Hull  of  New  York 
City,  being  brought  forward  by  the  Credential  Committee,  they 
were  duly  elected  members  of  the  Association. 
Prof.  Guthrie,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  the  Statistics 
of  Pharmacy,  reported  the  inability  of  the  committee  to  make  any 
farther  report  than  they  had  formerly  done.  On  motion  of  Mr. 
Parrish,  this  committee  was  discharged  and  the  duties  that  de- 
volved upon  it  were  referred  to  the  Corresponding  Secretary, 
for  the  ensuing  year. 
Mr.  Ellis,  on  behalf  of  the  committee  on  the  certificate  of 
membership,  appointed  in  1853,  read  a  report,  from  which  the 
following  is  an  extract : 
"  The  committee  is  impressed  with  the  belief  that  it  is  expedient  to  have 
a  neatly  engraved  certificate  of  membership — chaste  and  appropriate  in  its 
design — and  in  the  wording  of  it  adapted  to  the  purposes  in  view.  After 
careful  inquiry  as  to  the  cost,  and  an  examination  of  finely  executed  en- 
gravings upon  stone,  the  committee  would  recommend  a  lithograph  en- 
graving, having  ascertained  that  such  an  one  of  suitable  size  can  be  exe- 
cuted, the  whole  expense  not  to  exceed  one  hundred  and  twenty  to  thirty 
dollars,  including  the  paper  and  printing  of  a  sufficient  number  of  impres- 
sions. For  the  purpose  of  conveying  to  the  members  of  the  Association  an 
idea  of  the  size  and  character  of  the  engraving,  the  committee  will  submit 
one  of  a  similar  character  and  purpose  from  the  Pharmaceutical  Society 
of  Great  Britain. 
"  The  committee  recommend  that  the  price  of  the  certificate  be  fixed  at 
three  dollars  each,  and  that  all  the  members  present  be  invited  to  subscribe 
for  a  copy,  so  that  the  necessary  funds  may  be  raised  before  the  adjourn- 
ment of  the  Association." 
After  the  reading  of  this  report,  Mr.  S.  M.  Colcord  requested 
to  read  the  following  remarks  relative  to  the  late  Chairman  of 
the  Committee,  Andrew  Geyer,  of  Boston,  which  was  granted. 
"  Mr.  President  : — It  is  with  deep  regret  that  I  have  to  announce  to  the 
Association  the  decease  of  one  of  its  members,  since  our  last  meeting.  An- 
*   drew  Geyer,  for  thirty  years  or  more  engaged  in  the  apothecary  business 
in  Boston,  now  sleeps  with  the  silent  dead.    He  was  one  of  us  in  a  far 
