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Excerpt from Ninth Annual Meeting, 1920 The growing volume of discussion at our annual meetings made it necessary for the Association to forego its custom of printing the proceedings verbatim and in full, if it would keep the size of its yearbook within reasonable bounds.' In judging between the matter to be printed and the matter to be deleted your Executive Committee has been guided strictly by the rules contained in the resolution adopted at the Ninth Annual Meeting. In the first place it has deleted matter, which, while of great interest at the time, is not, by reason of the subject with which it dealt, of permanent value. In the second place it has condensed the remarks of speakers by eliminating the repetition, and the little pleasantries not bearing on the subject, to which we are all given when speaking extemporaneously. The omissions that members will be quickest to note, perhaps, are those of the banquet speeches, the talk at the evening entertain ment and the greetings of our friends from other organizations. These were delightful features of our meeting and there was a strong temptation to include them because of their entertaining value. But, mindful of the character of the proceedings, as a practical work of reference pertaining strictly to the industry, the Committee realized that there was nothing to do but to omit them. You will also note the deletion of discussion leading up to action which closed the matter in question for good and all, and made a printing of the discussion useless. This embraces the discussion preceding the adoption of the resolution to affiliate with the Drug Trade Board of Public Information, the discussion incidental to the election of officers (every useful purpose being served by the simple publication of the list of officers); the remarks incidental to the election of new members (whose names you will find in the list of members); the discussion on the telegram and testimonial to Mr. C. M. Woodrufi; the discussion