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Hiumni journal 



Published monthly in the interest of the Alumni Association of the College 



of Pharmacy of the City of New York. 



Pharmaceutical Department of Columbia University. 



PUBLISHED AT 43 FULTON ST., NEW YORK CITY. 



C. P. WIMMER, Phar.D., A.M., Editor 



Vol. XIX. MAY, 1912. No. 5. 



COLLABORATORS. 



Charles F. Chandler, A.M., Ph.D., etc. Anton Vorisek, Phar.D. 



Henry H. Rusby, M.D. William Mansfield, Phar.D. 



Virgil Coblentz. A.M., Phar.M., etc. Clinton B. Knapp, M.D. 



George C. Diekman, Ph.G., M.D. W. A. Bastedo, Ph.G., M.D. 



John Oehler, Ph.G. Frederick A. Leslie, Phar.D. 



William J. Gies, Ph.D. Charles W. Ballard, Ph.C. 



Carlton C. Curtis, Ph.D. Henry Vin Amy, A.M., Ph.D. 

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Address all Editorial Communications to Dr. Curt P. Wimmer, "115 West 68th 

 Street, New York City. Address all Business Communications to Chas. A. Lotz, 

 135 Water Street, New York City. 



NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. 



Copy of Advertisement must be in the Editors hands before the 25th of the month 



preceding publication. 



DR. JOSEPH WEINSTEIN ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE 



ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. 



At the last meeting of the Alumni Association Dr. Joseph Wein- 

 stein, was elected President for the ensuing' year. To the members 

 of the Association, Dr. Weinstein is well known, nevertheless, an 

 account of his career will be of interest to many. 



Dr. Weinstein is a native of Russia, having been born in Courland 

 in i860. He entered a pharmacy as an apprentice in Yilna in 1878, 

 after having completed the required course in the High School. His 

 first pharmaceutical degree, that of Pharmacopoei Auxiliarius, was 

 taken at the Imperial University of Kharkoff, Russia. He engaged 

 in the drug business there, both as proprietor and clerk, and in 1887, 

 took a four semester course in pharmacy at the University of Moscow 

 and was graduated with the degree of Provisor. 



Dr. Weinstein came to Xew York twenty years ago and established 

 himself in business at 75 East Broadway where he conducted a 



