44^  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  { A m /ug\r/i8£?rm' 
Including  cash  balance  on  hand  at  the  beginning  of  the  last  fiscal  year, 
amounting  to  16,670.33,  the  Treasurer  reported  the  total  receipts  for  the  eleven 
months  to  have  been  $12,962.75,  and  the  total  disbursements  $9, 128.42,  the  latter 
sum  including  I3.021.62  for  permanent  investment,  leaving  a  balance  on  hand, 
June  1,  of  $3,834.33,  which  was  decreased  July  1  to  $3,703.25. 
The  invested  funds  in  the  custody  of  the  Chairman  of  the  Council  are  as 
follows  : 
Ebert  fund,  Cash,  $62  25  and  bonds    $600  valued  at     $699  00 
Centennial  fund,   "      188  99         "  1,100  "         1,282  co 
Iyife  membership  fund,   "      77247         "         8,100         "  9,43650 
General  fund  (see  Treasurer's  report),  "  3,000         "        3,000  00 
Prof.  Whelpley  gave  notice  of  an  amendment  to  Chap,  iv,  Article  iv,  of  the 
by-laws,  increasing  the  Treasurer's  salary  from  $600  to  $750,  which  was  adopted 
at  a  subsequent  session. 
After  the  appointment  of  a  Committee  on  the  time  and  place  of  the  next 
annual  meeting,  consisting  of  Messrs.  Sheppard,  Remington,  Main,  Sloan  and 
Ebert,  the  Association  adjourned  until  4  o'clock,  P.  M. 
Second  Session,  Thursday  afternoon. — After  the  reading  and  approval  of  the 
minutes,  the  Nominating  Committee  submitted  the  following  nominations  for 
officers  for  the  next  year  :  President,  Jos.  P.  Remington,  Philadelphia  ;  Vice- 
presidents,  A.  P.  Preston,  Portsmouth,  N.  H.;  S.  P.  Watson,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  and  W. 
H.  Averill,  Frankfort,  Ky. ;  Treasurer,  S.  A.  D.  Sheppard,  Boston  ;  Permanent 
Secretary,  J.  M.  Maisch,  Philadelphia  ;  Reporter  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy, 
Henry  Kraemer,  New  York  ;  members  of  Council,  H.  M.  Whitney,  Lawrence, 
Mass.,  Gust.  Ramsperger,  New  York,  and  Chas.  E..  Dohme,  Baltimore.  In 
regard  to  the  office  of  reporter  it  was  stated  that  Dr.  Rice  had  positively 
declined  a  re-election,  because  he  could  not  give  to  the  work  the  personal  atten- 
tion which  it  ought  to  receive  ;  also,  that  Mr.  Kraemer  has  made,  under  Dr. 
Rice's  supervision,  a  portion  of  the  abstracts  and  compilations  for  the  report 
of  the  current  year.    All  the  nominees  were  duly  elected. 
The  Committee  on  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress  presented  a  report 
through  the  chairman,  Prof.  Oldberg,  in  relation  to  measures  to  be  taken  for 
the  Seventh  International  Congress,  to  be  held  in  Chicago  next  year,  all  of 
which  were  referred  to  the  Council  with  power. 
Prof.  Diehl  made  a  report  for  the  Committee  on  National  Formulary,  discuss- 
ing the  popularization  of  the  Formulary  and  its  revision  under  the  headings 
of  corrections,  additions  and  eliminations.  The  report  was  accompanied  by  a 
lengthy  epitome  of  criticisms  on  the  present  National  Formulary,  arranged  in 
three  parts,  giving  abstracts  from  journals,  a  synopsis  of  communications 
from  members  of  the  Committee,  and  the  results  of  examination  of  typical 
specimens  of  National  Formulary  preparations,  after  having  been  kept  on  hand 
for  nearly  four  years.  The  report  shows  that  the  formulas  of  the  National 
Formulary  have  proved  to  be  very  satisfactory,  that  very  few  alterations  have 
been,  proposed,  that  very  few  additions  have  thus  far  been  suggested,  and  that 
the  preparation  of  a  final  report  cannot  be  undertaken  until  after  the  publi- 
cation of  the  new  pharmacopoeia. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  time  and  place  of  meeting,  recommended 
Chicago,  the  time  to  be  designated  by  the  Council,  which  was  adopted. 
Amendments  lying  over  from  last  year  were  then  considered.    The  amend- 
