AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION  509 
Massachusetts  ;  M.  J.  Bailey,  M.  D.,  Special  Examiner  of  Drugs 
at  the  port  of  New  York. 
The  following  gentlemen,  being  properly  recommended,  were 
elected  contributive  members,  viz :  Silas  Whitehead,  of  Lynch- 
burg, Va. ;  D.  S.  Dyson,  of  Washington,  D.  C.  ;  and  Wm.  F. 
Henry,  of  New  York. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  standards  of  quality  of 
drugs  for  the  use  of  Drug  Examiners  and  others,  &c,  was  called 
up,  and  after  some  discussion  the  following  resolution  was 
adopted,  and  the  Committee,  as  by  them  requested,  discharged 
from  further  service. 
Resolved,  That  the  Executive  Committee  be  instructed  to  take 
all  necessary  measures  that  may  be  required  to  urge  on  the 
attention  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  of  the  United  States, 
the  views  of  this  Association  relative  to  the  qualifications  neces- 
sary for  an  Examiner  of  Drugs,  should  the  entrance  of  a  new 
administration  render  such  action  necessary. 
A  paper  was  read  by  E.  S.  Wayne,  on  "  A  process  for  Elixir  of 
Opium,"  which,  with  all  the  papers  previously  read,  were  referred 
to  the  Executive  Committee,  with  discretionary  powers  in  refer- 
ence to  their  publication. 
On  motion,  the  minutes  of  the  Proceedings  during  the  several 
sittings  were  now  read,  and  after  amendment  were  adopted. 
The  Secretary  on  behalf  of  the  members,  strangers  in  Balti- 
more, offered  the  following  resolution,  which  was  carried  : 
Resolved^  That  the  thanks  of  this  Association  are  hereby 
tendered  to  the  Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy,  and  to  the 
druggists  and  pharmaceutists  of  Baltimore,  generally,  for  their 
hospitality  during  our  visit  to  their  beautiful  city,  and  for  their 
liberal  and  cordial  co-operation  in  the  objects  of  the  Association.* 
Then  on  motion  adjourned  to  meet  in  Philadelphia  on  the 
second  Tuesday  in  September,  1857. 
W.  J.  M.  Gordon, 
Recording  Secretary, 
*  See  editorial  remarks  in  the  sequel 
