AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
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by  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  were  duly  elected  members,  viz. 
J.  P.  Dodge,  John  Canavan,  and  James  T.  Maxwell  of  New 
York,  and  William  Thomas  of  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Certificate  of  Membership 
being  in  order,  the  report  of  Mr.  Geyer,  of  last  year,  was  read, 
and  after  again  reading  the  report  of  Mr.  Ellis,  the  latter  was 
adopted,  and  the  committee  were  continued. 
It  was  moved  by  Mr.  Parrish  that  William  Procter,  Jr.  and 
John  Meakim  be  added  to  the  committee,  which  committee  shall 
be  empowered  to  decide  upon  the  design,  to  issue  the  certificate, 
and  to  deliver  it  to  all  subscribers  and  members  who  may  pay 
for  it ;  which  was  carried. 
It  was  moved  and  carried,  that  the  Treasurer  pay  to  the 
widow  of  the  late  Andrew  Geyer,  fifty  dollars,  for  expenses  in- 
curred in  getting  up  a  design  for  certificate  of  membership. 
[[Considerable  discussion  ensued  on  the  reading  of  the  report.  The  Com- 
mittee exhibited  certificates  of  the  London  Pharmaceutical  Society,  of  the 
Boston  College,  of  the  New  York  College,  and  the  draft  of  Mr.  Geyer,  pre- 
sented at  Cincinnati  last  year.  Of  these,  that  of  the  London  Society 
approached  nearest  to  the  idea  entertained  by  the  members.  It  consists  of 
an  Arabian,  figurative  of  Avicenna,  and  an  European,  figurative  of  Galen, 
resting  on  the  opposite  sides  of  a  shield,  surmounted  by  a  mortar  and 
pestle,  symbolic  of  our  profession,  whilst  twined  around  the  mortar  and 
falling  to  the  foreground  is  a  loose  festoon  composed  of  the  most  important 
medicinal  plants,  the  whole  arranged  on  a  substructure  exhibiting  three 
apartments,  the  middle  occupied  by  an  alchemist  at  his  crucible,  and  others 
by  apparatus  symbolical  of  chemistry  and  pharmacy.  It  was  suggested  by 
the  Committee  that  this  design  should  be  modified  by  adding  the  figure  of 
an  American  Indian  presenting  the  rich  gifts  of  his  materia  medica  to  those 
of  the  old  world,  with  other  symbols  appropriate  to  our  position  in  the 
Pharmaceutic  brotherhood.  Objections  were  made  to  the  adoption  of  any 
part  of  the  English  certificate,  desiring  a  picture  suggestive  only  of  Ameri- 
can ideas,  but  the  Committee  very  properly  pointed  to  the  universality  of 
Pharmaceutic  Science,  and  the  indebtedness  of  American  Pharmaceutists 
to  their  brethren  of  the  old  world.  The  design  of  Mr.  Geyer  embraced 
figures  of  Apollo,  Mercury,  and  other  classical  symbols,  whilst  the  general 
mass  of  the  picture  exhibited  a  modern  apothecary-shop  with  many  of  its 
details,  to  which  was  added  a  shield  of  the  United  States  giving  nationality 
to  the  whole.  This  design  not  being  approved  of,  and  it  not  being  probable 
that  all  could  agree,  it  was  thought  best  to  entrust  the  whole  matter  to  the 
Committee,  as  above  stated. — Editor.] 
The  Committee  appointed  to  report  on  standards  of  quality 
