reduction of the internal revenue taxes on alcohol for manufacturing purposes, and especially as applied to chemistry and pharmacy. If druggists, wholesale and retail, in every village, town, or city of this Commonwealth address themselves to the representatives in Congress from this State, as with one impulse, I am satisfied that some good would be accomplished in that direction. Our Government should be at least as liberal in this direction as the monarchies of Europe. When we quietly contemplate the enormous tax the chemists and druggists of this country pay on alcohol alone-one dollar and eighty cents per gallon-it is simply wonderful that they have quietly submitted to the wrong so many years. Let me, therefore, urge upon you the importance of writing to your members of Congress, and using your influence and best endeavors in behalf of these recommendations. And now, thanking you for your patience and forbearance, I hope you may be able to say at the conclusion of our labors here, that it was both pleasant and profitable to be here, and that it may be spoken of as one of the best meetings ever held by this Association. The PRESIdent. If there are any delegates from county associations present, we are ready to receive their credentials. Will some gentleman make a motion to have a committee on credentials appointed? (While some of the members of the Association were consulting upon this subject, preparatory to making a motion,) Vice President MEYERS. Gentlemen of the Association, you have heard the very exhaustive and able address of our President. What is your wish in regard to it? Mr. WILLIAM HARRIS. I move that the report be accepted, and a committee of three appointed to consider the President's address, so that the Association may carry out the recomendations made. The motion was seconded and unanimously agreed to. . Whereupon the Vice President appointed as the committee, Messrs. William B. Thompson of Philadelphia, William Harris of Hamburg, and Joseph S. Evans of West Chester. Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I believe there are some delegates here from sister Associations. I think it would be well at this time to receive them, and I would move that they be welcomed to this meeting, and the courtesies of the floor extended to them. The motion having been seconded and agreed to, The PRESIDENT. As President of this Association, I would bid them welcome, and ask them to take part in the deliberations of this Association. We are now ready to receive any resolutions relative to the appointment of a committee on credentials, and the reference to them of such papers. Mr. TURNER. I move that a committee of three be appointed on credentials. The motion was seconded by Mr. KENNEDY, and agreed to; and the Chair appointed as the committee, Messrs. Turner of Philadelphia, Kennedy of Pottsville, and Miller of Allegheny. Mr. WILLIAM B. THOMPSON. Mr. President, I would call attention to the fact also, that we have with us as a visitor, Dr. F. Hoffman, of New York, who is well identified with pharmacy and its literature. I move that the courtesies of this body and the privileges of the floor be extended to him. The motion was seconded and unanimously agreed to. The PRESIDENT. The next business in order is the report of the officers. The report of the Secretary comes first in order. Mr. DUBLE. I would suggest that the committee on credentials at once consider the subject assigned them, in order that they may make a report as soon as possible. The PRESIDENT. I hope that any delegates present from any local associations of the State will present their credentials to Mr. Turner, chairman of the committee. He Mr. LEMBERGER. Mr. President, I desire to draw the attention of the Association to the position of Dr. Knapp, who comes here representing the Luzerne County Pharmaceutical Association. says when the appointment was made they had no secretary present; that he as president of the association was supposed to be a law unto himself when he came here. There can be no mistake about the fact, and I move that he be admitted as a delegate from the Luzerne County Association. The motion was seconded and unanimously agreed to. J. A. MILLER, the Secretary, then presented his report as follows: GENTLEMEN: No special work was assigned the Secretary during the past year, and his duties were the ordinary ones of superintending the publication of the proceedings and their distribution to the members and others entitled to receive them, and attending to the correspondence of the Association. The proceedings of 1885 were printed and ready to be sent away on the 24th of September last. To place them in the hands of the members at as early a day as possible after the annual meeting has always been the desire of the Secretary, but on account of delays, which have been apparently unavoidable, three or four months have always elapsed before the work has been completed. A large number of the proceedings of the past two years have been sold, mostly to members who furnished papers for them, at the low price of fifteen cents a copy, an amount very little above the cost of the paper and binding. How this could be done was explained at the last meeting, and is known to most of you. As it increases largely the circulation of the proceedings, and is done at no loss to the Association, this practice will be continued; but all orders for them must be sent in before the printing of the volume is begun. After that they will be charged for at the price fixed by the Executive Committee. In regard to the correspondence little need be said. In the first years of our existence there were many inquiries as to the aims and purpose of this Association. It was not certainly known what was to be accomplished through this instrumentality. Many were suspicious of the motives of those who first came together to form this body. Some believed it was to further the ends of particular individuals or a certain college of pharmacy. Now we believe that opinions have changed; these prejudices have in a great measure disappeared, and this Association is regarded, even by many who are not members of it, as the great medium through which our rights are to be maintained and our evils remedied. So much has your Secretary learned from the correspondence he has had throughout the past eight years. The proceedings of the following State Associations were received during the past year: New York, Ohio, Maryland, Indiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Connecticut, Virginia, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Missiouri, Illinois, and New Hampshire; also the annual report of the Alumni Association of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and throughout the year, a copy of the Pharmaceutical Record and Western Druggist. Back volumes of the proceedings are still in the hands of the Secretary, but of the years of 1883 and 1885 very few remain, so that if any members wish complete sets they ought to send for them soon. J. A. MILLER, Secretary. Professor MAISCH. I move that the report be accepted and referred to the Executive Committee for publication. The motion was seconded by Mr. DUBLE, and agreed to. The SECRETARY read a telegram from the New York State Pharmaceutical Association, as follows: The New York Association sends cordial greetings, and wishes you a successful and enjoyable meeting. Signed, The PRESIDENT. CLAY W. HOLMES, Secretary. What is the pleasure of the Association in ref erence to the telegram? Mr. MEYERS. I move that this Association returns fraternal greetings to the New York Association, in acknowledgement of their telegram. The motion was seconded by Mr. PATTON, and agreed to. The PRESIDENT. Treasurer. The next business in order is the report of the The Treasurer, Mr. J. L. LEMBERGER, submitted his report as follows: GENTLEMEN: In rendering the eighth annual statement of the treasury, I am happy in being able to report a healthy balance. All orders on your treasurer were paid, the members have responded very promptly in payment of annual dues, a goodly portion of back standing dues have been paid, no dissatisfaction exists so, far as the Treasurer has knowledge with reference to the increase of annual dues, the wisdom of which measure will be apparent on reading of the annual statement. The receipts for the year have been $956 67 including balance on hand last year, $98 11. The Treasurer regrets that the authorized issue of special plea for the taking out of certificates of membership was not more generously responded to, yet is fully convinced that but for the effort comparatively few would have been taken. The total issue of certificates to the present time has been two hundred and seven; eighteen of this number were issued the past year. There are four hundred and eighty-nine open accounts in the Treasurer's books—thirty-four of this number risk being dropped at the end of this meeting if members do not cancel their three years' arrearage. We regret to announce that for the second time in our history, we have been burnt out of certificates. At the recent fire in Philadelphia, consuming the St. Cloud Hotel, and adjacent buildings, the establishment of Lehman & Bolton was also destroyed. They were the lithographers who got up our certificates originally, and after a previous fire on Library street, where a former supply was made, they generously offered to renew them without charging for a new stone. We felt they were perfectly safe in their vaults, and accepted their proffer to be the custodians for us. As we have but five or six certificates left, your Treasurer would ask authority to have a new lot made. The cost for five hundred will be $57. The Treasurer's intercourse with his fellow officers and members has been very pleasant during the past year, and in concluding his report, desires heartily to thank the members for their forbearance and uniform courtesy. Respectfully submitted, JOSEPH L. LEMBERGER, Treasurer. DR. EIGHTH ANNUAL STATEMENT. JOSEPH L. LEMBERGER, Treasurer, in account with The Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association, Lebanon, Pa. 1885. June 2, To balance on hand, . $98 11 To cash received as initiation fees, forty-six members $92 00 Feb'y 9. To cash from Secretary, Dr. J. A. Miller, for proceedings sold, 9 59 of receipts from new members, 611 00 To cash from sale of eighteen certificates during the year, at $3, 54 00 $956 67 1885. June 3. June 8, To balance on hand. $234 82 CR. By amount paid order W. L. Turner, No. 59, expenses of com- $45 52 By amount paid J. C. Mackintosh, order No. 60, expenses of 350 66 7 28 By amount paid Wm. Harris, order No. 58, expenditure of al traveling expenses, as bill attached,.. Aug. 27. By amount paid Jno. F. Patton, order No. 62, expenses of Executive Committee, as bill attached, . 66 66 By amount paid Alonzo Robbins, order No. 63, expenditures of Committee on Papers and Queries, as per bill attached, . Oct. 29. By amount paid Dr. J. A. Miller, order No. 64, for telegrams, postal cards, and printing, stamps, and express charges, as bill, 89 89 6 69 15 50 30 85 By amount paid Lane S. Hart, order No. 65, for printing pro- Feb. 25. By amount paid T. H. McCool, order No. 66, for filling and mailing certificates, as per detailed bill, June 5. By amount paid Dr. J. A. Miller, order No. 67, covering salary of Secretary for the year, . Expenditures for stamps, envelopes, printing, and notices of meeting, as bill, . By amount paid Joseph L. Lemberger, order 68, cov- Expenditures incidental, as per memorandum, for By balance on hand. June 8, 1886. Mr. WILLIAM HARRIS. I move that the report of the Treasurer be received and printed in full in the minutes, after it has been properly audited. The motion was seconded by Mr. DURHAM, and agreed to. Mr. LEMBERger. As there is no risk of my getting on the committee the treasurer not being able to audit his own accounts-I |