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leave  to  state  that  as  pharmacists  we  are  not  amenable  to  the  Medical  Association  of  the  District  of  Colum- 
bia ;  have  no  voice  in  its  management,  and  that  to  admit  your  power  to  enforce  these  rules  so  far  as  they 
seek  to  control  us  would  be  to  acknowledge  your  right  to  govern  us  without  consent,  condemn  us  without 
trial,  and  punish  us  without  appeal.  Therefore,  although  our  assent  or  dissent  is  not  asked,  we  deem  it 
due  to  ourselves  to  advise  you  that  wherever  the  above  report  would  impose  conditions  upon  us  not  now 
recognized  we  do  not  accept  it  as  in  any  way  binding  upon  us.  We  take  this  occasion  to  reassure  you  of 
our  readiness,  now  as  in  the  past,  to  co-operate  with  you  in  all  laudable  efforts  to  protect  the  public  from 
the  danger  attending  the  inconsiderate  renewal  of  certain  prescriptions,  or  any  evil  that  may  be  shown  to 
exist  in  either  profession. 
Signed  by  eighty-nine  pharmacists,  engaged  in  business  in  this  city. 
And  thus  the  case  rests  for  the  i^resent. 
W.  S.  Thompson, 
Washington,  B.  C,  April  16th,  1881. 
Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy.  —  The  thirteenth  annual 
commencement  was  held  in  the  hall  of  the  College,  April  13th,  when  the 
degree  of  Graduate  in  Pharmacy  was  conferred  upon  the  following  gentle- 
men :  Herbert  William  Adams  (Alum),  Freeman  Hall  Butler  (Aloes  and 
Aloin),  George  Frederick  Dinsmore  (Bpiritus  ^theris  Nitrosi),  George 
Ernest  Fairfax  Donkin  (Spiriea  Tomentosa),  Edward  Robert  Godding 
(Syrup  of  Hydriodic  Acid),  Alie  Greenberg  (Calomel),  Alfred  James  Hay- 
man  (Tartrate  of  Iron  and  Potassium),  Joseph  Bradford  Locke  (Oleoresin 
of  Pepper),  Arthur  Dean  Marcy  (Instrument  for  Shaping  Troches),  James 
Whiting  Page  (Hydrocyanic  Acid),  Edwin  Walter  Shedd  (Sulphur),  Lin- 
ville  Holton  Smith  (Sodium  Ethylate),  Charles  Sumner  Soule  (Purified 
Chloroform),  Greeiileaf  Robinson  Tucker  (Hydrobromic  Acid),  Charles 
Crosby  Williams  (Bromide  of  Potassium;  with  Quantitative  Analyses  of 
Commercial  Samples). 
The  following  gentlemen  have  been  granted  their  degrees  of  Graduate 
in  Pharmacy,  "with  honors,"  for  having  taken  and  jDassed  a  satisfactory 
examination  in  the  Elective  Dej^artment  of  Practical  and  Analytical 
Chemistry:  William  W.  Bartlett,  class  of  1873;  Franklin  E.  Boydeii,  class 
of  1880;  George  E.  F.  Donkin,  class  of  1881 ;  George  F.  Dinsmore,  class  of 
1881 ;  Edwin  W.  Shedd,  class  of  1881. 
Addresses  were  made  by  the  President,  Mr.  B.  F.  Stacey  ;  Rev.  O.  D. 
Kimball;  F.  H.  Butler,  Ph.G.,  and  Prof.  B.  F.  Davenport,  and  prizes, 
consisting  of  books,  were  presented  to  H.  W.  Adams,  Ph.G. ;  E.  W. 
Shedd,  Ph.G. ;  W.  A.  Chapin  and  T.  T.  Reid,  the  last  two  named  belong- 
ing to  the  junior  class. 
This  College,  we  learn,  has  made  a  course  of  laboratory  instruction  obli- 
gatory upon  those  intending  to  graduate. 
Alumni  Association  of  the  Cincinnati  College  of  Pharmacy. — 
At  the  annual  meeting,  held  March  16th,  1881,  the  following  officers  were 
elected  for  the  ensuing  year :  President,  Herman  Serodino ;  Vice-Presi- 
dents, Louis  Klayer  and  H.  J.  Marshall ;  Recording  Secretary,  J.  Ferd. 
Zuenkeler ;  Corresponding  Secretary,  C.  J.  Lammert ;  Treasurer,  Robert 
M.  Kuerze;  Executive  Board  for  one  year — E.  Goodman,  Louis  Sauer ; 
for  two  years — E.  A.  Pohlmeyer,  Albert  Wetterstroem. 
