and of giving instruction in the same by public lectures." The 

 college was authorized to hold real and personal property to the 

 valua of $200. This charter was amended in 1839, a renewal 

 granted in 1856 and this amended in 1871 and in 1884 so as to per- 

 mit the institution to hold property to the value of $300,000. In 

 1832 the college began an agitation for the enactment of a phar- 

 macy law for the city which was passed in 1839. In 1833 the phar- 

 macopoeia published at Philadelphia was adopted. In 1877 a stan- 

 dard series of weights and measures was adopted which was ap- 

 proved by the New York County Medical Association two years 

 later. In 1878 the college secured the exemption of pharmacists 

 from iurv duty. In 1846 Mr. Ewen ^Nlclntyre, then an apprentice 



Lecture hall in the Twenty-thii-d street building. 



to Mr. George Coggeshall, called attention to the adulteration of 

 the drugs and chemicals on the market, and in consequence of the 

 agitation which followed the College proposed the enactment of 

 a law preventing the importation of adulterated or sophisticated 

 drugs. This law was passed by Congress along the lines suggested 

 and the agitation in connection with this law led to a call for 

 a meeting which was held in New York in 1851 out of which grew 

 the American Pharmaceutical Association. 



In all the affairs of the college Professor Chandler has taken 

 an active, an influential and a helpful part, ever since he 

 became a member of the faculty, and much of the success of 



