PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 
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merited the honors of the institution, by compliance with 
the requisites for graduation. 
In the original organization of the school, the chair of 
Materia Medica and Pharmacy was allotted to Dr. Samuel 
Jackson, one of the first and most active members of 
the college, who filled it until the year 182 7, when other 
and more pressing engagements induced him to resign ; he 
was subsequently elected to the station of Professor of the 
Institutes of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. 
He was succeeded by Dr. Benjamin Ellis, who filled the 
station with commendable zeal and industry, and with 
talents that admirably qualified him for its duties, until the 
year 1S31, when the members of the college and the class 
were called to mourn his death, in the midst of his honor- 
able and useful pursuits. 
Dr. Ellis was succeeded by Dr. George B. Wood, who 
had previously occupied the chair of Chemistry in the col- 
lege. He continued professor of Materia Medica and 
Pharmacy till the year 1835, when he was called to a field 
of more extended usefulness, by his election to a similar 
professorship in the University of Pennsylvania. 
Dr. R. Egglesfield Griffith was next chosen professor, and 
lectured until the following year, when he accepted a pro- 
fessorship in the University of Maryland, and was suc- 
ceeded by Dr. Joseph Carson, the present occupant of the 
chair. 
The chair of Chemistry having been originally occupied 
by Dr. Gerard Troost, and subsequently by Dr. George B, 
Wood, in 1831 its duties devolved upon Dr. Franklin Bache, 
who continued his labors as teacher of that important 
branch until, in 1841, he was elected to a similar station in 
the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. William 
R. Fisher, a graduate of the institution, who had been pro- 
fessor of Chemistry in the University of Maryland, and was 
extensively known as a skilful and accomplished apothe- 
cary, was next elected to the station, from which however 
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