PROSPECTIVE ASSETS. There is now outstanding on the books of the Association: Annual dues for 1899.... Annual dues for 1900 $725 00 4,840 00 $5,565 00 The above amount does not include what is due from members whose names will probably be dropped from the roll this year, nor from members whose residence is unknown. Respectfully submitted, S. A. D. SHEPPARD, Treasurer. Boston, Mass., April 1, 1900. THE PRESIDENT: Gentlemen, you have heard the report of your Treasurer; what will you do with it? The report of your Auditing Committee, to whom the Treasurer's Report was referred, was read at the previous session. Mr. Mayo moved to adopt, which motion was seconded and carried. The Secretary presented the following as his Financial Report for the past nine months: REPORT OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS IN THE CARE OF THE GENERAL SECRETARY. A. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES ON ACCOUNT OF NATIONAL FORMULARY, FROM JULY 1, 1899, TO APRIL 1, 1900. 1. Receipts. From Sales and Payment of Bills due July 1, 1899 II. Expenses. Paper and Press Work (printing 1000 copies) Binding 600 copies in cloth, at II cents Expressage and Postage.... rapher, Postage and Printing. ..... Expenses of Preparing Manuscript of Physicians' Epitome; Stenog $313.93 $78 77 66 00 15.49 35 60 195 86 B. SUMMARY OF TOTAL RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES ON ACCOUNT OF Receipts to June 30, 1899 (see Proc., Vol. 47, p. 33)................ Receipts from July 1, 1899, to April 1, 1900 $11,182 51 Badges sold from July 1, 1899, to April 1, 1900, 14, at $2.00... $28 00 23 25 Total Receipts from Sale of Badges and Bars to June 30, 1899 Total cost of Badges and Bars to June 30, 1899. $56 45 56 45 27 69 $713 45 56 45 769 90 $680 10 46 25 28 00 $754 35 Baltimore, April 1, 1900. CHAS. CASPARI, JR., General Secretary. On motion of Mr. Holmes, duly seconded, the report was ordered received, and referred for publication. The Secretary announced that he had carried out the sense of the resolution passed last year in regard to sending a congratulatory letter to Dr. Squibb on the occasion of his 80th birthday, and read the following reply that he had received: MR. CHAS. CASPARI, JR., Secretary, Baltimore: BROOKLYN, October 12, 1899. My Dear Sir: Your favor of the 9th came duly, and yesterday the parcel by express was received. I thank the Association very much for its favorable appreciation of my work and for its congratulation on my advanced age; and for the beautiful form in which its senti ments are expressed. Sorry I have not more time and vigor left to better live up to so high a degree of appreciation. THE PRESIDENT: The reply of Dr. Squibb in response to the letter written by our General Secretary will, without objection, be received and referred for publication. It is a great satisfaction to the Association to receive such a reply, and to have his continued interest in our organization. The Secretary stated that the report of the Committee on Publication had been presented to the Council and read before that body, but had not yet been read to the Association in general session. Mr. Mayo moved to read by title and refer for publication. Carried. The report of the Delegation to the National Association of Retail Druggists was next called for, and Mr. Good, Chairman, after explaining that he was not present at the meeting of the N. A. R. D. at Cincinnati, but that Mr. Hopp was there, and had, at his request, prepared a report, read the following: RICHMOND, VA., May 7, 1900. Mr. President and Members of the American Pharmaceutical Association: Gentlemen: The first annual meeting of the National Association of Retail Druggists was held in Cincinnati, October 3-6, 1899, and was presided over by our genial and staunch friend of the American Pharmaceutical Association, Mr. Hynson, of Baltimore, he being the Association's first President. Of the members appointed delegates, Messrs. E. F. Phillips, of Armada, Mich., Thos. Layton, of St. Louis, Mo., and L. C. Hopp, of Cleveland, O., were present; and it gave us pleasure to note the very hearty and cordial reception accorded the American Pharmaceutical Association. The meeting was largely attended, it being, as you well know, composed of delegates representing State and local organizations, and the enthusiasm was great; the very atmosphere was laden with enthusiasm to such an extent that the local papers published columns of the transactions of the meeting. All of the sessions were well attended, each having at least ninety per cent. of all delegates present, and the closest attention was given to the very able address of the President, the exhaustive report of Mr. Holliday, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Secretary Wooten's admirable report and Mr. Lowe's report of the finances of the Association. As the above have all been published in the various pharmaceutical journals, we will not make reference to any, as they, no doubt, have all been read by members of our Association. Of the officers elected for the ensuing year, the President, Simon N. Jones, of Louisville; Second Vice-President, Thos. Layton, of St. Louis; Secretary, Thomas V. Wooten, of Chicago; Treasurer, C. T. Heller, of St. Paul, Minn., are members of the American Pharmaceutical Association. Now, in view of so many of the active workers of the National Association of Retail Druggists being members of our Association, we would suggest to this Association that a Committee or the Council consider the advisability of the National Association of Retail Druggists holding its meeting at the same time we hold our meetings, each organization to retain its cwn and distinct Association, sessions to be held alternately. This would lessen the expense of our meetings somewhat, and collectively make the attendance twice as large as at present; besides, it would lessen the expense of individual mem bers of time and money and it surely would be beneficial to both organizations. It will also lessen the burden of the Transportation Committee of both organizations, since neither of the Committees know until the last moment whether they have enough railroad certificates to secure the usual reduced fare returning. LEWIS C. HOPP, THE PRESIDENT: You have heard this report of the delegation to the Cincinnati meeting of the National Association of Retail Druggists. As to the question presented of the simultaneous meeting of the two affiliated bodies-the National Association of Retail Druggists and the American Pharmaceutical Association-that may be considered in general session or in the Section upon Commercial Interests. What is your pleasure? Mr. Oldberg moved to refer the report to the Council, and it was so ordered. THE SECRETARY: I have here the report of the delegation to the Pure Food and Drug Congress, with a request from the Chairman, Mr. Geisler, of New York, to hand it to one of the other members of the committee, but I do not find them present. It is quite a voluminous report. Possibly Mr. Geisler has gone to considerable trouble to prepare it. The Association might act on it in some way at this time. THE PRESIDENT: This is a report upon the subject of Legislation, manifestly. It wonld perhaps not be inappropriate—whether advisable or not I cannot say-to refer it to the Section upon Education and Legistation. Mr. Seabury, seconded by Mr. Pettit, moved to so refer, and it was so ordered. The Treasurer suggested that, under the by-laws, the report of the Committee on Time and Place of Next Meeting was required to be made at this session. It was ordered read, and Mr. Sheppard presented it as follows: The Committee appointed to select the time and place of the next meeting of the Association have agreed to recommend the City of Saint Louis, Mo., as the place, and the second Monday of September, 1901, as the time. For the Committee, S. A. D. SHEPPARD, Chairman. Mr. Klein, seconded by Mr. Knoefel, moved to substitute Hot Springs, Ark., for St. i ouis, in the report. Mr. SHEPPARD: It is only fair to the members of the committee to state very briefly what were the arguments that induced the committee to bring in that report. It is not necessary to say that the committee were thoroughly unbiased. I don't think any member of the committee-other than, possibly, the St. Louis member, Mr. Whelpley-went into the committee-room with any feeling of prejudice in favor of one place as against another. The proposition is simply this: We are now meeting in the East. Last year we met at Put-in-Bay, which is not very far West. The year before that we met at Baltimore. In the year 1902-the semi-centennial year of the Association-we shall meet in Philadelphia, provided the vote of the Association several years ago is carried out, as it undoubtedly will be. The geographical argument came up, therefore, and the committee voted that it would be wise to meet west of the Alleghany mountains, because if we should meet east of the Alleghanies next year, it would bring four consecutive meetings in the eastern part of the country. Then the question was, what part of the western country should we go to? We have been to the Northwest quite recently. We went to the northern part of the central section last year. We are now in a Southern city, and meeting in the southern latitudes requires the meetings to be held at a different time of the year from the customary one, viz.: the latter part of the summer season. Now, it will be thirty years next year since a meeting was held in the great city of St. Louis. The financial interests of the Association are demanding our attention. Its increase of membership is very largely affected by meeting in a portion of the country where there is a large population from which to draw. Then there is the question of influence by this Association upon the various sections of the country. It is a fact of history that this Association always leaves behind it a permanent local influence. As illustrative of that, take my own section as an example-New England. When the Association met there in 1865 it gave pharmaceutical institutions such an impetus that the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, which had been in existence since 1821, became from that time a teaching college. It met there again in 1875, and that was the beginning of the best era of good feeling that New England has ever known-especially Boston. The Boston Druggists' Association was formed. I think that experience can be duplicated everywhere in the country. Therefore, the great city of St. Louis immediately attracted your committee's attention, and we debated the matter at great length. I think the sense of the committee would have been in favor of Hot Springs, as a resort, instead of a large city, were it not for these interests that seem to be so important and vital to the Association. There is a great center-St. Louis, where we have not been for thirty years. We shall be able to do good there, and we think we can get good by going there, and these are the reasons that decided us in naming that place. MR. EBERLE: I move that Texas be selected as the place of next meeting, and I wish to make a few remarks in regard to Texas. We have in the State of Texas several cities which would be very convenient for this Association to meet at. Each one has peculiar attractions of its own. We have San Antonio, that all of you have read of in history; a place memorable on account of its historic records-the Alamo, its churches, and the battles of the great heroes of Texas. We have Galveston, with its beautiful beach, as fine perhaps as any along any coast in the world. And then that city has, at all times of the year, a very agreeable climate. At no time of the year is it oppressive; so that we in Texas use it as a summer resort. Then we have Dallas, the commercial city of Texas. There we once entertained the General Assembly of the Baptist Church, and two years ago the Imperial Council of Shriners, and all spoke highly of their visit to Dallas. Again, along the borders of the Rio Grande, across the river, we have the old country of Mexico, which is a very inter esting country to visit. Every time we have a National meeting in our part of the country we give them an excursion into Mexico. This can easily be arranged for. The climate of Texas is, I know, objected to; but I will say there has never been a sunstroke in Texas, and I believe, month for month, our temperature does not rise to the temperature of St. Louis. Our summers are longer, but the temperature does not go as high as in St. Louis. The nights are always pleasant. I hope the matter of selecting Texas will receive the careful consideration of the Association. Mr. Knox seconded the motion to select Texas as the next place of meeting. THE PRESIDENT: Permit me to ask the gentleman if his motion is simply to leave the place as Texas, the point to be fixed by the Association, or the Council, hereafter. |