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Minutes of the College. 
Nov. 25. The Board of Trustees reported the election of 
Thomas J. Husband and Stephen Proctor as resident mem- 
bers. 
The committee on Latin labels made a report recommend- 
ing the same, and stating that T. K. Collins & Co. have un- 
dertaken to print and publish them on their own account; to 
be executed with great neatness on coloured paper, there 
being three distinct sizes of labels, and not less than 1000 in 
each book. The committee also recommend the passage of 
the following resolution : 
That the book of Latin labels about to be published by T. 
K. Collins & Co., being in accordance with the nomenclature 
of the revised edition of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia of 1830,, 
published in Philadelphia, and with other standard authori- 
ties, be recommended to the Druggists, Apothecaries and 
Physicians of the United States as correct. 
A communication on the Fluid extract of Senna by Charles 
Ellis, was read and referred to the Publication Committee. 
Dec. 30. The Board of Trustees reported the election of 
John Bringhurst as a resident member. 
Dr. F. Bache, Dr. G. B. Wood and W. Hodgson Jr., were 
added to the committee on Latin labels, to assist in their re- 
vision and insure their correctness. 
An improved minim measure was presented to the College 
by Robert Alsop of London, a foreign associate member, 
through W. Hodgson Jr. This measure, the invention of the 
donor, is a cylindrical tube five or six inches in length, and 
about one-fourth of an inch in diameter, tapering toward the 
lower end to a fine point. It is accurately graduated from 
one minim up, and fitted inside with a piston, by the elevation 
of which a certain quantity of air is displaced, and any num- 
ber of minims of the fluid may be accurately measured, at 
