258  Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations.  {^^'£^\s8i^^^' 
far  as  experiments  go,  that  all  of  those  mentioned  might  be  found  to  be  of 
power  in  this  way. 
A  specimen  of  Quebracho  bark  (Aspidosperma  quebracho)  was  presented, 
which  has  had  attention  directed  to  it  of  late  years  as  a  remedial  agent,  and 
also  as  a  material  for  tanners'  uses.  This  specimen  was  imported  by  a  New 
York  firm  from  Buenos  Ayres. 
There  being  no  further  business,  the  meeting,  on  motion,  adjourned. 
T.  S.  WiEGAND,  Registrar. 
PHARMACEUTICAL  COLLEGES  AND  ASSOCIATIONS. 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.— Thirteen  years  ago  this 
College  erected  the  building  in  which  its  lectures  have  since  been  delivered. 
Two  lecture  rooms,  each  seating  over  325  persons,  were  then  supposed  to 
accommodate  the  classes  for  many  years  to  come.  Two  years  ago  an  ele- 
mentary course  of  instruction  was  arranged  with  the  view  of  imparting  in 
the  three  branches  taught — Materia  Medica,  Pharniacj^  and  Chemistry — 
that  knowledge,  the  possession  of  w^hich  is  necessary  for  deriving  substan- 
tial benefit  from  the  lectures  as  delivered  in  the  final  or  senior  course.  Mean- 
while the  means  of  instruction  in  the  various  departments  have  been  con- 
tinually amplified,  and  the  laboratory  instruction,  though  only  elective, 
met  with  such  favor  that  during  the  past  w^inter  the  working  tables  had  to 
be  increased  from  32  to  48,  the  utmost  capacity  of  the  hall  set  apart  for  that 
purpose.  This  increase  even  proving  insufficient,  the  College  at  its  annual 
meeting  sanctioned  the  steps  taken  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  the 
increase  of  the  facilities  of  instruction  and  the  accommodation  of  a  still 
larger  number  of  students  in  the  practical  branches  ;  these  improvements 
are  now  in  progress  and  will  be  finished  during  the  coming  summer. 
A  year  ago  the  College  purchased  in  the  rear  of  its  present  lecture 
hall  six  dwellings,  five  of  which  have  been  torn  down,  and  upon  this  site 
there  is  now  in  course  of  erection  a  four-story  building,  extending  the 
present  one  as  far  back  as  Elwyn  street.  The  new  building  will  contain 
on  the  ground  floor  the  chemical  laboratory  with  its  various  accessories. 
Sixty  working  tables  will  be  provided,  and  there  will  be  room  for  increas- 
ing this  number  considerablj^  The  second  floor  is  intended  for  the  phar- 
maceutical laboratory,  and  will  be  provided  with  permanent  facilities, 
which  heretofore  could  not  be  procured,  since  the  same  locality  had  to  be 
used  for  instruction  in  practical  pharmacy  and  chemistry.  The  third  floor 
will  be  a  lecture  room  equal  in  size  to  each  of  the  two  old  lecture  rooms ;  it 
will  be  occupied  by  the  Professor  of  Chemistry,  while  the  older  ones  will 
be  used  exclusively  for  the  lectures  on  pharmacy  on  the  second  floor,  and 
on  materia  medica  and  botany  on  the  third  floor. 
The  fourth  floor  of  the  new  building  will  be  divided  into  three  rooms  for 
the  accommodation  of  the  Alumni  Association  and  of  the  Zeta  Phi  and 
Alpha  Phi  Societies  of  the  students.  Access  to  the  different  floors  of  the 
new  building  wdll  be  had  on  the  north  side  through  a  tower  containing  the 
