THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



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OFFICIAL OPENING 



OF THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY OF THE CITY 

 OF NEW YORK. 



The formal opening of the new college build- 

 ing took place on Friday evening, Dec. 28. 



On their arrival, the guests were received by 

 a committee consisting of Messrs. J. N. Hege- 

 man, Chairman ; Chas. E. Holzhauer, Dr. 

 Adolph Tscheppe, George Massey, Albert Plaut, 

 Dr. Chas. Rice, Wm. J. Schieffelin, Theodore 

 Louis, Horatio N. Fraser, Herman Graeser, 

 Thos. F. Main. 



They were shown to the cloak rooms ; the 

 ladies to the committee room on ground floor, 

 where Mrs. Schuyler was in attendance, and 

 the gentlemen to the basement, where provis- 

 ion had been made for them. 



As soon as the garments had been removed 

 the gue&ts were ushered to the lecture room, 

 by a committee for that purpose, consisting of 

 the following members 01 the Alumni Associa- 

 tion: Messrs. H. Graeser, C. F. Keale, Wm. A. 

 Hoburg, Jos. R. Wood, A. A. Kesseler, J. H. 

 Wurthman and H. Krueder. 



Previous to the beginning of the exercises the 

 band, placed on the upper landing of the lec- 

 ture room, rendered some excellent numbers, 

 which were highly pleasing to the guests, after 

 which the members of the faculty and special 

 guests were escorted to the platform from H. 

 Rusby's chart room, where they had assembled. 



The exercises were then opened with an in- 

 vocation by the Rev. Madison Peters, D, D. 



Mr. Hermon W. Atwood, Chairman of the 

 Building Committee, presented the finished 

 building to the Chairman of the Board of Trus- 

 tees, Mr. Samuel W. Fairchild with a short ad- 

 dress. 



In accepting the building, Mr. Fairchild 

 thanked the committee for their earnest and 

 conscientious work, and after a lengthy and 

 very interesting speech introduced Dr. George 

 Shrady, the speaker of the evening, whose re- 

 marks were indeed very enjoyable. 



Dr. Chas. F. Chandler was then asked to 

 make some remarks on behalf of the faculty, 

 which he did in his usual interesting manner. 



This concluding the exercises the guests made 

 their exit through the south doors and inspect- 

 ed the various departments where the respect- 

 ive professors were in attendance, and the 

 Museum where the officers and trustees held a 

 reception, passing from there to the Depart- 

 ment of Botany and Materia Medica, where Dr. 

 Rusby and Dr. Jelliffe were in attendance, then 

 to the Department of Pharmacy, where Dr. 

 Coblentz and Mr. Madison explained the cur- 

 riculum to the guests, and finally the Depart- 

 ment of Chemistry, where Drs. Elliot and Fer- 

 guson were in attendance. 



From here the guests passed down the north 

 staircase, inspecting the Alumni Room, where a 

 presentation had been made by Mr, A. Hen- 

 ning, and where the president, Mr. Herman 

 Graeser, and members of the Executive Board 

 were in attendance. 



After this the guests were ushered to the As- 

 sembly Rooms and Library on the main floor 



where a collation was served. The music hav- 

 ing been removed from the Lecture Room to the 

 main floor to play during the collation was so 

 exquisite that the younger people could not re- 

 sist the temptation and a dance was instituted in 

 the library and all present had a merry time. 



Editor Alumni Journal : 



Dear Sir— A number of the students do not 

 understand the extent of the recognition of the 

 College diploma by the State Board of Phar- 

 macy. Will you kindlj publish in the next is- 

 sue of The Alumni Journal an answer as to 

 whether it is necessary to pass another examina- 

 tion in New York, Kings and Erie Counties, 

 or simply to become registered sufficient. 



Class of '95. 



This query was handed to K. C. Mahegin, 

 whose reply is as follows : 



" The diploma of the College oi Pharmacy of 

 the City of New York is recognized in New 

 York State in the couuties of New York Kings 

 and Erie. 



Applicants for registration in all parts of the 

 State, whether graduates or not, must be ex- 

 amined by the State Board." 



MEETING OF THE TORREY BOTANICAL 



CLUB IN THE COLLEGE OF 



PHARMACY. 



The regular semi-monthly meeting of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club occurred on Tuesday 

 evening, December 11, in the lecture room of 

 the New York College of Pharmacy by special 

 invitation and proved a very pleasant and suc- 

 cessful event, in spite of the extreme inclemency 

 of the weather. About fifty persons were present. 

 The paper of the evening was read by Prof. 

 Rusby on the subject of "Pharmaceutical 

 Botany." The speaker referred to the different 

 points of view from which the two hundred 

 members of the Club viewed the study of botany . 

 Most of them pursued for the recreation and 

 culture which it afforded, quite a number pur- 

 sued as a pure science, and most of the remain- 

 der from the standpoint of the teacher. The 

 speaker was almost alone as one whose profes- 

 sional relations lay entirely with the economi- 

 cal side of the question. He therefore felt that 

 it would be of great interest as well as profit if 

 the other members of the club were to gain 

 some general knowledge of one of the im- 

 portant departments of the latter subject. The 

 development of the science of botany from 

 medical botany was briefly outlined, and the 

 circumstances and changes reviewed which had 

 led subsequently to the separation from medi- 

 cal botany of the branch now known as phar- 

 maceutical botany. Regret was expressed that 

 the former subject had not maintained its posi- 

 tion as it properly should, having almost en- 

 tirely abandoned the field to the latter, which 

 should properly constitute but a collateral 

 branch. The objects of pharmaceutical botany 

 were then stated to be chiefly the identification 



