148 PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY, 
Treasurer, 
Joseph C. Turnpenny. 
Secretary, 
DlLLWYN PARRISH. 
Corresponding Secretary, 
William Hodgson, Jf. 
Trustees, 
John H. Ecky, Edward Parrish, 
Joseph Carson, M. D., John Harris, 
William Procter, Jr. Albert L. Letchworth, 
Warder Morris, William P. Troth. 
Publishing Committee, 
Dr. Robert Bridges, A. J. Duhamel, 
William Procter, Jr., Charles Ellis, 
Ambrose Smith. 
A special meeting of the College was held Fifth month 
4th, 1S46. — Present IS members. 
Daniel B. Smith, President, in the Chair. 
The President announced that the meeting had been 
called to receive the report of the Committee of Nine, ap- 
pointed to consider the propriety of creating a Professorship 
of Pharmacy . The following report was then read and con- 
sidered, and unanimously adopted : 
To the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. 
The Committee to whom was submitted the proposition 
made at the last meeting of the College, for the establish- 
ment of a professorship of Pharmacy, having deliberately 
considered the subject, have agreed upon the following re- 
port. 
The original objects contemplated in the establishment 
of the College, appear to have been various. The protec- 
tion of the drug market from adulterated and spurious arti- 
cles; the discouragement of quackery and deception in 
drugs ; the collection of a scientific library for the use of 
