REPORT. 
The length of time that has elapsed since the organiza- 
tion of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and its 
steadily increasing reputation and usefulness, have placed 
it among the established institutions in our country for the 
promotion of science. It has been thought that a succinct 
account of its origin, objects, and operations, would prove 
gratifying to the profession, a large number of whose mem- 
bers in this city are graduates of the institution ; and at the 
same time would tend to disseminate its benefits, by ex- 
citing an interest in it, among a class who, from ignorance 
of its character and history, have failed to avail themselves 
of them. With such intentions the present notice has been 
drawn up. 
Prior to the year 1S21, attention was directed towards, 
and complaints prevailed with respect to the abuses in the 
Drug and Apothecary business. To remedy the evils 
which existed, a proposition was made, on the part of the 
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, instigated 
by the representations of one or more of the medical pro- 
fessors in that school, to grant the degree of Master of 
Pharmacy to such persons as were recommended as quali- 
fied to conduct the business of Pharmacy, and had complied 
with certain requisitions. This proposition was declined 
by the " Druggists and Apothecaries of the city and liberties 
of Philadelphia," on the ground that it was " liable to se- 
rious objections, and inadequate to the attainment of the 
objects which it had in view and it was determined at a 
meeting held March 13th, 1821, at the recommendation of a 
committee to whom the subject had been entrusted, to form 
