48 THE ALUMNI JOURNAL 



At the close of the meeting'. Dr. Rodney H. True, of the Bureau 

 of riant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture 

 delivered a lecture on the work being done along these lines by the 

 ( i( vernment. Dr. True showed many interesting lantern slides of 

 the various drugs which the Government has succeeded in raising 

 and ga\ e a very interesting account of the difficulties encountered 

 \n their endeavors to raise in this country, plants of foreign habitat. 

 A general discussion on the subject was held after the lecture and 

 the large audience present heartily extended a vote of thanks to Dr. 

 True for his kindness in coming from Washington to give this lec- 

 ture. 



At the meeting of the Board of Trustees, held on the 5th of March, 

 it was voted that the Secretary extend to Professor Jos. P. Reming- 

 ton on the 26th inst., its congratulations on his sixty-fifth birthday, 

 at which time a dinner is to be tendered him by his many friends in 

 the pharmaceutical and allied professions. 



The following gentlemen have been elected to membership in the 

 College: F. A. H. Anger of 26 Christopher Street, Harry Goldschmidt, 

 of 124 First Avenue. 



The Treasurer of the College, Mr. C. O. Bigelow and Mrs. Bigelow 

 have gone to St. Augustine for a short stay. Trustee Albert Plant 

 has recently returned from a short trip to Europe. Air. Plaut spent 

 but one week on the other side. Air. Ewen Mclntyre has just re- 

 turned from an extensive visit to the Island of Jamaica and has 

 brought with him some very interesting native plants, which he has 

 presented to the museum. 



The baseball team is now practicing on south field, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, under the directorship of Coach Fisher. From all appear- 

 ances, a very good team will be developed this year. 



Mr. Jeannot Hostmann, assistant in Chemistry to Professor Arnv. 

 lectured recently in Hobok;n on the pure food question. Mr. Host- 

 mann treated the subject in an entirely new aspect, showing that if 

 the employers of a great number of workers took as much pains to sec 

 that the food which their help consumes was of as pure and nutritive 

 a standard as they do in choosing the highest and most efficient type 

 of fuel and machinery, the results obtained would show as definite 

 a return both financially and in the quality of workmanship. 



The Board of Trustees has voted a very large sum for the pur- 

 chase of new microscopes and it is the intention to each year add 

 more until our already excellent outfit is brought up to a very high 

 -tandard. 



