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to  meet  at  Philadelphia  on  the  second  Tuesday  in  September, 
1857. 
After  a  free  discussion  the  question  was  taken  on  the  motion 
of  Mr.  Ellis,  and  decided  in  the  affirmative. 
The  Committee  on  nominations  reported  the  following  mem- 
bers for  the  standing  committees,  viz  : 
For  the  Executive  Committee — W.  J.  M.  Gordon,  of  Cincin- 
nati ;  Charles  T.  Carney,  of  Boston  ;  Edward  Parrish,  of  Phila- 
delphia ;  Israel  J.  Grahame,  of  Baltimore ;  and  C.  B.  Guthrie, 
of  New  York. 
For  the  Committee  on  the  Prcg7*ess  of  Pharmacy — William 
Procter,  Jr.,  of  Philadelphia  ;  Eugene  Dupuy,  of  New  York  ; 
Edward  S.  Wayne,  of  Cincinnati ;  James  Cooke,  of  Fredericks- 
burg, Ya.  ;  and  Francis  S.  Walsh,  of  Washington,  D.  C. 
The  rules  being  suspended,  the  proposed  members  were 
elected  to  the  service  stated,  viva  voce. 
[At  a  subsequent  meeting  of  these  Committees,  E.  Parrish  was  elected 
chairman  of  the  first,  and  W.  Procter,  Jr.,  of  the  second.] 
In  view  of  the  fact  that  great  inaccuracy  and  discrepancy  is 
known  to  exist  in  the  weights  and  measures  in  common  use 
among  pharmaceutists  in  the  United  States,  Professor  Guthrie 
offered  the  following: 
Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  three  be  appointed  by  the 
chair  to  take  this  subject  into  consideration, and  report  at  the 
next  annual  meeting. 
C.  B.  Guthrie,  S.  S.  Garrigues,  and  C.  T.  Carney,  were 
appointed  to  this  service. 
On  motion  it  was  Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  the  Association 
are  hereby  tendered  to  the  late  President  and  Secretary,  for  the 
prompt  and  faithful  discharge  of  their  respective  duties. 
On  motion  it  was  Resolved,  That  six  volumes  of  Gmelin's 
Chemistry,  as  offered  by  the  Association  for  the  bes*t  essay 
relating  specially  to  Pharmacy,  be  awarded  to  Edward  S. 
Wayne,  of  Cincinnati,  for  his  admirable  series  of  papers  and 
extemporaneous  communications.  . 
On  motion  it  was  Resolved,  That  the  whole  subject  of  the  sale 
of  poisons  by  pharmaceutists  and  others,  and  the  legal  means  of 
restraining  it,  be  referred  to  a  committee  of  five  members,  to 
report  in  1857. 
To  serve  as  this  Committee,  the  President  appointed  S.  S. 
