216  Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations.  {AmApriM£9arm" 
J.  Frank  Wallis,  Pennsylvania,  Picrotoxin. 
Percy  Hall  Ward,  Maryland,  Fluid  Extracts. 
Edmund  Howell  Watkins,  Pennsylvania,  Tincture  of  Nux  Vomica. 
Maurice  Watson,  Pennsylvania,  Rheum. 
Charles  Henry  Weaber,  Pennsylvania,  Pills  and  Pill  Excipients. 
William  Weber,  Pennsylvania,  Liquor  Plumbi  Subacetatis. 
Joseph  L.  Weil,  Pennsylvania,  Lycopus. 
E.  Riall  White,  Maryland,  Incompatibility  of  Unguentum  Belladonnas  and 
Tannin. 
Robert  Walter  White,  Pennsylvania,  Sugar. 
Joseph  Washington  Wischman,  Pennsylvania,  Acetic  Acid. 
John  Howard  Witherow,  Pennsylvania,  Pill  Making  in  Pharmacies. 
Harry  Sudduth  Wood,  Kentucky,  Glacial  Acetic  Acid. 
John  Stewart  Woodruff,  New  Jersey,  Pepsins. 
Charles  Young,  Pennsylvania,  Prescriptions  and  Dispensing. 
William  Corson  Zinnel,  Pennsylvania,  Oleum  Tiglii. 
States  and  Countries  represented  by  the  Graduating  Class:  Alabama,  Col- 
orado, Connecticut,  Germany,  Maine,  Minnesota,  Oregon  and  Virginia,  each 
1  graduate ;  Iowa,  Kansas,  Louisiana,  South  Carolina  and  Tennessee,  each 
2  graduates  ;  Kentucky,  Maryland,  Missouri,  Texas  and  West  Virginia,  each 
3  graduates  ;  Illinois,  New  York  and  North  Carolina,  each  4  graduates;  In- 
diana 5 ;  Delaware  6  ;  Ohio  7 ;  New  Jersey  17,  and  Pennsylvania  106  gradu- 
ates. 
On  Monday  evening,  March  18th,  the  graduating  class,  in  response  to  an 
invitation  from  the  faculty,  sat  down  to  a  supper  in  the  museum  of  the 
college  building,  in  company  with  the  officers  and  trustees  of  the  college, 
the  occasion  being  enlivened  by  toasts,  speeches  and  singing  by  the  glee  club. 
At  the  commencement  held  on  the  following  evening  at  the  Academy  of 
Music,  the  President  of  the  College  conferred  the  degree  of  Graduate  in 
Pharmacy  upon  the  candidates  named  above,  and  a  certificate  of  Proficiency 
in  Chemistry  was  awarded  to  Hermann  J.  M.  Schroeter,  Ph.  G.,  for  special 
studies  in  chemistry  after  having  graduated  in  pharmacy.  By  direction  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees  the  degree  of  Master  in  Pharmacy  was  conferred — 
honoris  causa — upon  Charles  Bullock  of  class  1847,  T.  Roberts  Baker  of  class 
1852,  Joseph  L.  Lemberger  of  class  1854,  Alonzo  Robbins  of  class  1855  and 
Professor  John  M.  Maisch.  The  Procter  medal  for  highest  grade  of  scholar- 
ship and  meritorious  thesis  was  awarded  by  President  Bullock  to  F.  B. 
Quackenbush  of  Penn  Yan,  N.  Y.,  and  honorable  mention  with  the  grade 
"  distinguished  "  to  H.  V.  Amy,  G.  A.  Krauss,  E.  S.  Reider,  J.  H.  Small,  C.  M. 
Southall  and  J.  L.  Weil ;  and  with  the  grade   "  meritorious  "  to  J.  Clavin, 
G.  A  Deitz,  Jr.,  H.  R.  Gillispie,  R.  A.  Hatcher,  H.  V.  Haak,  J.  F.  Kilgus, 
H.  Kraemer  and  G.  H.  Ray.  The  Secretary  of  the  College,  Wm.  B.  Thomp- 
son, presented  the  Henry  C.  Lea  prize,  $100,  for  the  most  meritorious  re- 
searches recorded  in  the  graduating  dissertation,  to  Henry  Kraemer  of  Phila- 
delphia, honorable  mention  being  accorded  to  G.  A.  Krauss.  The  professors' 
prizes  were  awarded  as  follows  :  The  Materia  Medica  prize,  a  Zentmayer 
microscope,  for  original  histological  work  on  an  American  plant,  combined 
with  chemical  researches,  to  H.  Kraemer,  with  honorable  mention  of  the 
investigations  by  H.  V.  Amy  and  Geo.  H.  Ray;  the  Pharmacy  prize,  a  gold 
