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PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  ANNUAL  MEETING. 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  College  was  held  March  28  at  4 
p.m.  in  the  Library.  The  President,  Howard  B.  French,  presided. 
The  minutes  of  the  quarterly  meeting  held  January  4,  were  read 
and  approved.  The  minutes  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  Decem- 
ber 7,  1909,  January  4,  and  February  1,  19 10,  were  read  by  the 
Registrar,  and  approved. 
The  President  delivered  his  annual  address,  from  which  the 
following  items  of  information  are  abstracted. 
PRESIDENT'S  ADDRESS. 
The  condition  of  the  property  in  general  is  very  good,  numerous 
repairs  having  been  made  during  the  year.  The  internal  telephone 
system  has  been  repaired,  the  push  buttons  having  been  removed 
and  replaced  by  a  switchboard,  so  that  the  phones  are  now  in  first 
class  order.  The  chemical  lecture  room  which  lacked  proper  ven- 
tilation has  been  remedied  by  placing  an  electric  fan  in  the  southeast 
corner,  which  has  proved  very  successful  in  securing  proper  ven- 
tilation. The  hot-house  has  been  completed,  and  the  Professor  of 
Botany  and  his  assistants  have  added  a  small  addition  to  it. 
The  hot-house  has  been  of  material  advantage  in  enabling  the 
Professor  of  Botany  to  carry  over  during  the  winter  about  150 
interesting  economic  plants.  These  have  been  used  as  exhibits  dur- 
ing the  lectures,  and  have  proven  of  great  advantage  to  the  students, 
enabling  them  to  familiarize  themselves  with  plants  yielding  official 
drugs.  The  Professor  has  in  addition  also  had  access  to  one  of 
the  largest  hot-houses  near  the  city,  enabling  him  to  exhibit  plants 
of  unusual  interest  to  the  students. 
The  Course  in  Operative  Pharmacy  has  been  unusually  success- 
ful. The  time  given  to  laboratory  work  has  been  doubled  in  the 
Third  Year  Course,  and  nearly  so  in  the  First  Year  Course.  The 
Special  Course  in  Dispensing  has  also  been  materially  increased. 
The  Course  in  Commercial  Training  has  been  of  unusual  in- 
terest, a  number  of  lectures  by  men  actively  engaged  in  commercial 
pursuits  having  been  given. 
