294  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.    {Amju™,ri9ia m' 
of  commercial  practice  in  pharmacy  and  of  purifying  it  of  the 
evils  that  encompass  it."  Twelve  papers  were  presented  to  the 
section  and  that  some  of  these  seemed  to  belong  to  one  or  the 
other  of  the  other  sections,  furnishes  an  illustration  of  the  difficulty 
in  drawing  the  lines  between  the  work  of  the  several  sections. 
The  following  are  the  officers  of  the  Commercial  Section  for 
the  ensuing  year:  Chairman,  F.  M.  Apple;  Secretary,  B.  E. 
Pritchard ;  Associates,  Sydney  Yeomans  and  C.  M.  Ford. 
The  Program  of  Entertainment  under  the  charge  of  the  Local 
Secretary,  T.  A.  Miller,  included  a  luncheon  at  Lakeside  Park; 
a  reception,  tendered  the  Association  by  His  Excellency,  Wm.  H. 
Mann,  at  the  Governor's  mansion;  a  card  party  for  the  ladies  at 
the  Woman's  Club,  and  many  courtesies  including  special  trips  to 
historic  points  in  and  around  the  city  of  Richmond. 
H.  K. 
PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
The  eighty-ninth  annual  commencement  of  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy  was  held  in  the  American  Academy  of  Music 
on  Thursday  evening,  May  26.  After  prayer  by  Rev.  Llewellyn 
N.  Caley,  the  degrees  were  conferred  by  President  Howard  B. 
French. 
The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  received  the  degree 
of  Doctor  in  Pharmacy  (P.D.),  together  with  the  subjects: 
Name. 
Amsterdam,  Peter, 
Bartholomew,  Samuel 
Howard, 
Baun,   William  David, 
Beck,  Jay  Dana, 
Blumberg,  Joseph, 
Bolton,  Stephen  Dwight, 
Borneman,  Warren 
Roland, 
Bose,  Charles  Henry, 
Breen,  James  Stanley, 
Thesis.  State  or  Country. 
Cassia  Bark  and  Cinnamons  (official)  Russia 
The  Volumetric  Determination  of 
Sodium  Borate, 
Cinchona  and  its  Bast  Fibres, 
A  Simple  Apparatus  for  the  Recov- 
ery of  Alcohol  in  the  Retail  Phar- 
macy, 
Zinc  Oxide, 
The  Manufacture  of  Extract  of  Va- 
nilla and  its  Importance  in  Phar- 
macy, 
Pennsylvania 
Pennsylvania 
Pennsylvania 
Pennsylvania 
New  York 
Potassii  Bitartras, 
Sambucus  Canadensis, 
A  Process  for  Determining  the  Value 
of  Soap, 
Pennsylvania 
Pennsylvania 
Pennsylvania 
