Minutes of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. 343 
MINUTES OF THE PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 
June 30, 1835. — No quorum being present adjourned to 
August 25. 
September 27, 1835. — Minutes of the Board of Trustees at 
a special meeting convened to accept the resignation of 
George B. Wood, M. D. of the chair of Materia Medica and 
Pharmacy, were read ; also the minutes of the last stated 
meeting of the Board, by which the College is informed that 
Robert E. Griffith, M. D. was duly elected Professor of Ma- 
teria Medica and Pharmacy, to fill the vacancy occasioned 
by the resignation of Dr. Wood. 
The Society then went into an election for Trustees, in 
place of those whose term of service was about to expire, 
and the tellers reported that the following were duly elected : 
F. R. Smith, Thos. J. Husband, Jos. Scattergood, Jacob Bi- 
gonet, Jos. C. Turnpenny, Peter Lehman, Saml. F. Troth, 
and Chas. Shaffer, jr. 
The resignation of Thomas Milnor was read and accepted. 
A communication from J. C. Jenkins, tendering his resig- 
nation, was read and referred to the treasurer. 
October 24. — The Committee on Patent Medicines were 
discharged at their own request, and a committee consisting 
of Jos. Scattergood, Saml. F. Troth, and Algernon S. Roberts 
appointed, with instructions to report at the next stated meet- 
ing of the College. 
The resignation of J. C. Jenkins was duly accepted. 
The following communication from E. Durand was read : 
" I have the pleasure of presenting to the Philadelphia Col- 
lege of Pharmacy part of a collection of specimens of mate- 
ria medica, lately received from Mr. Guibourt, an eminent 
Pharmaceutist of Paris. I also transmit a translation of the 
notes accompanying the specimens. 
No. 1. False Angustura Bark. The Bark of the Brucea 
antidysenterica is not to be met with in commerce, what was 
