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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[May G, 1871. 
At the Annual Meeting the Committee appointed to 
select a suitable person for Editor of the American 
Journal of Pharmacy reported that they had agreed 
to recommend Professor John INI. Maisch for that 
office. The business of the journal is now conducted 
at the College, where all correspondence is to be 
sent. A balance of 1421 dollars in favour of the 
Journal was announced in the Treasurer’s report. 
The officers chosen by this Society for the ensuing 
year are—President, Dillwyn Parrish ; Vice-Presi¬ 
dents, W. Procter, jun., and Robert Shoemaker; 
Treasurer, Ambrose Smith ; Secretaries, C. Bullock 
and Alfred B. Taylor. 
The Maryland College of Pharmacy commenced 
its nineteenth annual session on the evening of the 
10th of March. The Act of Incorporation, em¬ 
powering the Society to confer the degree of Doctor 
in Pharmacy upon suitable persons, having been 
read, that title was awarded to Professor William 
Procter, Professor John Maiscii and Professor Israel 
J. Grahame, of Philadelphia, and Professor David 
M. Stewart, M.D., of Delaware. A list of nine per¬ 
sons who had successfully jiassed their examination 
was read, and the degree of Graduate of Pharmacy 
was publicly conferred upon them by the President. 
The evening’s proceedings concluded with an address 
to the students by Professor Claude Baxley, M.D. 
As in the case of the Philadelphia College, the exa¬ 
minations at the Maryland College are conducted in 
writing. It is expected that the Act passed last year 
by the General Assembly of Maryland for the regu¬ 
lation of the practice of pharmacy in the city of 
Baltimore, will greatly increase the welfare and in¬ 
fluence of this College. 
The Annual Meeting of the College of Pharmacy 
of the City of New York was held on March 10. 
Ten diplomas of Graduate in Pharmacy were conferred 
upon members of the graduating class and two prizes 
of fifty dollars each were presented, one to the student 
passing the best general examination, and the other 
to the student passing the best examination in botany 
and materia meclica. At a meeting of the students, 
called for the purpose, resolutions were passed thank¬ 
ing the Professors and other officials for the manner 
in which the classes had been conducted, and urging 
other pharmaceutical students to avail themselves 
of the opportunities for instruction afforded by this 
College. The officers elected to serve during the 
ensuing year are,—President, W. Hegeman ; Vice- 
Presidents, T. Frohwein, J. Coddington and W. 
Neergaard; Treasurer, W. Wright, jun.; Secretary, 
Edward L. Miliian. 
With respect to legislation affecting pharmacy, 
we may say that the Ontario Act* has now become 
law. The New York Drug Clerk Billf has been 
somewhat modified: the board of examiners, which 
it was originally proposed should consist of six, being 
* Ante, pp. 752 and 772. f Ante, p. 772. 
reduced to four members, viz. one skilled pharma¬ 
ceutist, one practical druggist and two physicians, 
who are to be appointed by and hold office during the 
pleasure of the mayor of New York. The salary is 
to be not more than 2500 dollars per annum for 
each commissioner, and the secretary, who is to be 
a practical druggist elected by the board: the amount 
to be fixed by the Board of Supervisors of New York. 
Any deficiency that may exist after the payment of 
the expenses of the Act out of the fees received is to 
be raised by a tax on real and personal property in 
the city of New York. 
A Bill to appoint an examiner of drugs in Penn¬ 
sylvania is now before the Legislature of that State. 
At the Annual Meeting of the Philadelphia College 
of Pharmacy, a committee was appointed to examine 
this Bill, and to take steps to prevent its becoming 
law if found to be objectionable. 
A course of eight lectures upon Economic Botany, 
with especial reference to Vegetable Substances used 
for Food, will be delivered by Professor Bentley, 
in the Museum in the Rojail Botanic Society’s 
Gardens, Regent’s Park, commencing on Friday, 
May 12tli. They will be open to Fellows and Mem¬ 
bers of the Society, and to bearers of ivory tickets, 
or the ordinary orders of admission to the gardens. 
At the Annual Meeting of the Royal Institution 
on Monday last, the following gentlemen were una¬ 
nimously elected as officers for the ensuing year :— 
President, Sir Henry FIolland, Bart., M.D., D.C.L., 
F.R.S.; Treasurer, William Spottiswoode, M.A., 
F.R.S.; Secretary, Henry Bence Jones, M.A., M.D., 
D.C.L., F.R.S. 
Arrangements have been made in York for open¬ 
ing a school for instruction in Pharmaceutical Sci¬ 
ence, under the superintendence of W. Procter, 
M.D., F.C.S. The Summer Course of Lectures, 
commencing on Friday, May 5, will be continued 
weekly through May, June and July, and the Winter 
Session, will extend from October to March. Fees 
for both Sessions (to Pupils or Assistants of Sub¬ 
scribers), one guinea, which may be paid to the 
Honorary Treasurer, Mr. T. Cooper. 
The collection at the Twickenham Economic Mu¬ 
seum, which had been got together by Mr. Thomas 
Twining, at considerable trouble and expense, for 
the purpose of illustrating the various branches of 
domestic economy, has, we regret to say, been 
destroyed by a fire that originated in one of the 
cellars. 
Our readers will find in the correspondence co¬ 
lumns a letter from Mr. Bottle, having reference to 
the qualities of the paper now in general use, which 
is well worthy of perusal. 
