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THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



The Board of Pharmacy has taken ac- 

 tion to shut down the illegitimate trading 

 of the calico druggists. Funds are want- 

 ing to meet the opposition which these 

 millionaire frauds are able to bring to 

 bear against honest methods. Surely the 

 pharmacists of New York can get together 

 and contribute handsomely towards such 

 a cause. Money talks, and these com- 

 petitors know where the Board is weak 

 just now. Who will help? 



On the 27th of October, Professor 

 Henri Moissau, the eminent French 

 Chemist and Toxicologist who is visiting 

 America for the first time as a delegate 

 from the French Academy of Sciences to 

 the Princeton celebration, delivered a 

 lecture on his "Researches with the Elec- 

 tric Furnace" by invitation of the New 

 York Academy of Sciences, the New 

 York Section of the American Chemical 

 Society, the American Institute of Elec- 

 trical Engineers, the College of Pharmacy 

 of the City of New York, and the New 

 York Section of the Society of Chemical 

 Industry. The representatives of the 

 College on this committee were Mr. Ed- 

 ward Kemp, President, Professors Cob- 

 lentz and Rusby, Dr. Rice, Mr. H. W. 

 Atwood and Mr. D. O. Haynes (by re- 

 quest of Professor Doreraus) and of the 

 Social Chemical Industry, Prof. Chand- 

 ler, Chairman, Mr. A. H. Mason, Vice- 

 President, Mr. R. C. Woodcock and Drs. 

 Schmeitzer, SchiefFelin and I. H. Steb- 

 bins, Jurist. The lecture was illustrated 

 with brilliant experiments. Professor 

 Moissan is Professor of Toxicology in the 

 Paris School of Pharmacy. He was en- 

 tertained at a complimentary banquet 

 on the 28th of October. 



If you have not already subscribed to 

 the Alumni Journal, do so at once. 

 It will pay you. 



Regular meeting of the Alumni Association, 

 College Lecture Room, October 14 1896. Meet- 

 ing called to order at 9.45 P.M., by President 

 Searles. 



There were present Miss K. C. Mahegin and 

 Messrs. Diekman, Ebbitt, Henning, Kirk, 

 Kreuder, Gies, C. S. Erb, L. Erb, Herold, Fer- 

 guson, Binger, Lohr, Tannenbaum, Stoeizer, 

 Eisner, Dauscha and Hoburg. 



Minutes of last meeting read and adopted. 



Mr. Ebbitt then brought up the subject of 

 heating the Alumni Room at night, and after 

 considerable discussion, it was moved and sec- 

 onded that a committee be appointed to seethe 

 Curators of the College, as to the best method 

 of heating this room; motion carried, and the 

 President appinted Messrs. Ebbitt, C. S. Erb 

 and Kirk. 



Mr. Herold reported as a committee of one, 

 on the codification of Constitution and By laws; 

 report accepted on motion. 



Moved and seconded that the entire report, 

 together with the two amendments recently 

 adopted, be published in the Alumni Journai,; 

 motion carried. 



The appointment of more than five members 

 on the Ball Committee, as original motion speci- 

 fied, being unconstitutional, a motion was made 

 and carried to empower the President to add to 

 this committee as many members as in his 

 judgement he deemed advisable, whereupon 

 Dr. Gies and Mr. C. S. Erb were appointed as 

 members of this committee. 



Report of Ball Committee read by the Chair- 

 man, Mr. Herold, as to the time and place of 

 the Alumni Ball. Lexington Ave. Opera House 

 December, 15, 1896; Lenox Lyceum, January 

 20, 1897; Madison Square Banquet Hall, Janu- 

 ary 20, 1897. After a short discussion the com- 

 mittee reported in favor of Madison Square 

 Banquet Hall, for January 20th, iSgj\ report 

 unanimously adopted. 



Motion made and seconded that the report of 

 the Entertainment Committee, read by the 

 Chairman, Mr. Kirk, be accepted, carried. 



Mr. Ebbitt spoke at some length on the sub- 

 ject of an "Alumni Dinner," to be held between 

 the present time and the date of the Ball, to 

 bring the officers and members of the Associa- 

 tion clcser together, and to promote sociability 

 and good-fellowship among its members; it was 

 suggested that a few public speakers be invited 

 to participate, and address the assembled guests 



