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I HE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



These together contribute fifteen evening 

 meetings per month, besides numerous 

 and varied field meeting and excursions 

 during the summer season. At the meetings 

 of these societies during the last year there 

 were presented no less than 172 scientific 

 papers, nearly all illustrated by speci- 

 mens, charts, lantern slides and experi- 

 ments, and including a large number of 

 topics of special interest to pharmaceuti- 

 cal students. It is to be noted that by 

 the rules of the Alliance membership in 

 any one of these societies entitles the 

 individual to attend any particular meet- 

 ing of any of the other societies in which 

 he may be interested. It is also to be 

 noted that a movement is on foot, by 

 which the Scientific Alliance is to erect a 

 great building, to possess, besides one or 

 more large lecture halls, separate rooms 

 for the accommodation of the collections 

 and libraries of the different constituent 

 societies, and in which their respective 

 meetings can be held. 



Columbia College, besides maintaining 

 great collections illustrative of the differ- 

 ent sciences, makes liberal provisions for 

 public afternoon and evening lectures. 

 Some of these lectures are delivered in 

 its own halls, others at the American 

 Museum of Natural History in connection 

 with that institution, and still others in 

 the great lecture hall of Cooper Union. 

 During the year 1894, these lectures 

 numbered 98, and many of them treated 

 of subjects bearing directly upon the 

 higher departments of pharmaceutical 

 work. 



The American Museum, independent 

 of Columbia College, provides an instruc- 

 tive and entertaining course of weekly 

 public lectures during the appropriate 

 season, and its valuable collections are at 

 almost all times free to the public. Simi- 

 lar lectures are provided at the same place 

 by the City Board of Education. While 



the latter are intended especially for 

 teachers, students specially interested in 

 any one of them could easily obtain ac- 

 cess thereto. 



At the Cooper Union two forms of free 

 public instruction are provided, the first 

 consisting of daily lectures from October 

 1st, to March 1st, the other of regular 

 courses of instruction which may be made 

 either general or special at the option of 

 the student, and for which no fees are 

 charged. 



It frequently happens in our observa- 

 tion that students of pharmacy not in- 

 tending to study medicine are yet desir- 

 ous of obtaining special instruction in 

 some medical line. Ample opportunities 

 for attaining such an object are afforded 

 in New York where a number of the most 

 important medical colleges in the coun- 

 try are situated, the most important of 

 them, the College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons, being only nine blocks distant 

 from the College of Pharmacy. 



Besides the pharmaceutical library of 

 our own college, the most extensive of its 

 kind in the country, access may be had 

 to the magnificent library of the Academy 

 of Sciences, while the city is noted for the 

 number and size of its general public 

 libraries. 



Not least among the conditions mark- 

 ing this city as specially adapted to the 

 pursuit of all departments of medical 

 study, is the fact that we have here 

 published a large number of medical and 

 pharmaceutical journals, the more im- 

 portant of them being in reality the 

 recognized leaders in the country. 



Altogether, viewing the exceptional 

 inducements which this locality offers to 

 intending students, it seems eminently 

 appropriate that the liberality and public 

 spirit of the profession should have here 

 erected and equipped a building which is 

 recognized as the type of its class. 



