486  AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
thanks  to  the  Association,  and  promised  his  best  exertions  for 
its  advancement. 
On  motion,  in  order  to  facilitate  the  business  devolving  on 
the  Treasurer,  the  resolution  of  yesterday  making  the  considera- 
tion of  the  revised  Constitution  the  first  business  in  order  after 
the  election  of  officers,  was  suspended  to  receive  the  report  of 
the  auditing  committee,  which  was  read,  accepted  and  approved. 
When  on  motion,  C.  B.  Guthrie  was  appointed  Treasurer  pro-tem. 
The  following  gentlemen,  recommended  by  the  Executive 
Committee,  were  duly  elected  members  of  the  Association,  viz  : 
H.  H.  McPherson,  Washington,   G<  Davidge  Woods,  Baltimore, 
Eugene  J.  F.  Russel,  Baltimore,  James  C.  Rodgers,  " 
James  Cooke,  M.D.,  Fredericksburg,  Va. 
The  consideration  of  the  revised  Constitution  was  now  called 
up. 
On  motion,  each  Article  was  read  and  considered  separately. 
On  motion  it  was  carried,  after  considerable  discussion,  that 
the  word  "apothecary,"  wherever  it  occurs  in  the  printed  draft 
of  the  Constitution  as  presented  by  the  Committee,  shall  read 
pharmaceutist. 
[There  were  several  advocates  of  the  displaced  title,  on  the  ground  that 
it  has  an  American  signification,  by  usage,  quite  different  from  that  belong- 
ing to  it  in  England,  and  similar  to  the  term  "  Apotheke"  of  the  Germans  ; 
but  on  the  contrary  it  was  argued  that  as  our  profession  is  called  Phar» 
macy,  its  followers  should  be  called  by  a  name  derived  from  it,  and 
the  term  pharmaceutist  was  considered  preferable  to  the  compound  name 
of  "  Pharmaceutical  Chemist,"  adopted  by  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of 
Great  Britain. — Editor.] 
After  some  few  amendments,  the  Constitution  as  amended  was 
laid  on  the  table,  to  be  engrossed  for  adoption  at  a  future  sitting. 
The  hour  having  arrived  for  reading  scientific  papers  and  for 
examining  specimens,  the  formality  of  the  meeting  was  sus- 
pended, and  a  table  filled  with  interesting  specimens  brought  in 
front  of  the  President's  desk. 
A  paper  on  the  action  of  Oil  of  Sassafras  upon  metallic 
vessels  containing  lead,  and  upon  the  compound  formed  thereby, 
was  read  by  Edward  S.  Wayne,  of  Cincinnati,  who  exhibited  a 
specimen  of  the  oil  and  the  lead  compound. 
[Mr.  Wayne  next  presented  specimens  of  crude  cotton  seed,  of  the  seed 
