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PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  ANNUAL  MEETING. 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  members  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy  was  held  on  Monday,  March  30,  1908,  at  4  p.m.  in  the 
Library.  The  President,  Howard  B.  French,  presided.  Twenty-six 
members  were  present. 
The  minutes  of  the  quarterly  meeting,  heid  December  30,  1907, 
were  read  and  approved. 
The  minutes  of  the  meetings  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  held  De- 
cember 2,  1907,  January  7th,  and  February  4,  1908,  were  read  by 
the  Registrar,  J.  S.  Beetem,  and  approved. 
The  President  read  his  report  for  the  year  ending  at  this  date, 
from  which  the  following  items  are  abstracted: 
Owing  to  the  excessive  amount  of  work  required  of  the  electrical  plant,  it 
was  found  necessary  to  have  the  dynamo  rewound,  and  to  prevent  a  recurrence 
of  similar  trouble  a  circuit-breaker  was  placed  on  the  switchboard. 
The  electrical  plant  is  now  in  first-class  order,  but  unfortunately  it  is  too 
small  for  present  requirements,,  and  a  duplicate  plant  will  soon  be  necessary. 
The  old  Quiz  room  on  the  third  story  of  the  back  building  has  been  remod- 
eled and  provided  with  desks,  electric  lights,  shelving  and  compartments  for 
the  use  of  the  Department  of  Botany  and  Pharmacognosy.  The  cost  of  these 
alterations  was  $1384.37.  This  gives  the  Department  double  the  laboratory  space 
heretofore  occupied.  The  new  laboratory  has  been  devoted  to  the  uses  of  the 
Pure  Food  and  Drug  Classes,  the  students  in  Bacteriology,  and  those  doing 
special  work,  In  addition  a  number  of  students  from  the  other  classes  have 
taken  advantage  of  the  increased  facilities  thus  afforded  for  the  purpose  of 
examining  specimens  under  the  microscope,  and  of  examining  specimens  com- 
posing the  collections  that  have  been  placed  in  the  laboratory. 
During  the  past  winter  several  students  desired  to  take  up  the  examination 
of  blood,  and  the  physiological  testing  of  drugs,  and  instruction  was  given 
them  on  these  subjects.  There  is  a  growing  demand  for  micro-analysts,  and 
the  students  are  taking  advantage  of  the  opportunity  offered  to  qualify  them- 
selves for  this  important  work. 
A  door  has  been  cut  through  from  the  Chemical  Laboratory  to  the  Chemical 
lecture  room,  which  enables  the  Professor  of  Analytical  Chemistry  to  use  more 
conveniently  the  latter  room  in  instructing  his  classes.  Other  portions  of  the 
buildings  have  had  more  or  less  of  repairs  put  upon  them,  and  the  entire  Col- 
lege is  now  in  fairly  good  condition. 
Early  in  the  year  the  Board  of  Trustees  authorized  the  Committee  on  Prop- 
erty to  have  plans  and  specifications  drawn  for  the  improvement  of  the  Aim- 
well  School  property.  The  services  of  Messrs.  Seymour  Davis  and  Paul  A. 
Davis,  3d,  architects,  were  secured.  Plans  and  specifications  for  a  two-story 
and  basement  building  were  prepared  and  bids  invited.  A  number  of  bids  were 
received  and  the  award  was  made  to  the  lowest  bidder,  Mr.  Herbert  K.  Havens. 
