Excerpt from Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the American Conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties: Denver, Colorado, August 20 and 22, Nineteen Twelve Vice-president clark: The next thing on our program is the reading of the vice-president's address. It was with mingled feelings of deep regret and alarm that I read a letter some six weeks ago received from Prof. Schlotterbeck, in which he stated that he would not be present at this meeting, and that I would have to preside in his place. The regret, of course, was occasioned by the fact that he would not be present, and that we would all miss him. I am sure that all of you gentlemen share in that feeling of regret at his absence. The alarm was occasioned by the fact that I would have to take such a prominent part in your deliberations here. Matters pertaining to the conference have perhaps been farther from my mind for the last few months than almost anything else for several reasons. First of all, I was elected vice-president of the Conference at the Boston meeting, and somebody or everybody neglected to notify me of that fact, and I rested in blissful ignorance of it until I received the proceedings some time last spring, and so I escaped a great many things, a great many horrible thoughts as to what was coming to me during those few months. About the time that I discovered I was vice-president, I decided to come out to Colorado, and I have been here in the mountains ever since. The things that have bothered me the most in the mountains are the failure of the mountain trout to bite well, and the continued rains that we have had. I have been so far from Chicago, so far from anything in touch with the Conference that I could not even look over the proceedings for the last few years and abstract the addresses of the other chairmen (laughter), and so I think I will spare you the agony of listening to a vice-president's address. I am sure that we have a great many things of importance before us, and many things that would be of more interest or more Importance to the conference than anything that I could possibly say. So we will just pass over this number, the vice-president's address, and proceed to the next item on the program, which is the report of the Secretary and Treasurer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.