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MINUTES OF THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 
the Journal, including the number for April, due to-morrow, and which 
is ready for delivery. 
The general Index to the Journal, alluded to in their last report, was 
published with the April and July numbers, of last year, and extended to 
56 pages of small type, double column. So far as they know it has been 
received with general satisfaction. Two hundred and fifty copies were 
reserved for future demand, and placed among the stock of the Journal. 
Previously to the commencement of the current volume, it was deter- 
mined to increase the amount of matter, without adding to the cost of the 
press-work, and with but a trifling addition to the previous expense of 
composition ; which was effected by enlarging the page slightly, and by 
throwing all the small articles under the general head of " Varieties," and 
in smaller type, so as to avoid loss of space by headings. By this arrange- 
ment nearly one-fifth more matter is contained in the same number of 
pages. 
It was also determined to append to each number of the Journal a regu- 
lar advertising sheet, wherein book notices, business notices, advertise- 
ments of new preparations, apparatus, etc., might be inserted, at the rate 
of four dollars per page for each issue, As one of the prominent objects of 
the Journal is the extension of knowledge, and the consequent discourage- 
ment of empyricism, advertisements of quack medicines, properly so called, 
are excluded ; and to avoid difficulty in this regard, the Editor announced, 
in October last, that a line of distinction would be drawn between a reser- 
vation of the skill and manipulation necessary in preparing a medicine of 
known composition, and a reservation of the composition of the medicine- 
and that the Editor would be governed by this rule in excluding objection- 
able advertisements. This sheet has steadily increased in dimensions, and 
bids fair, when it becomes more generally known, to prove a source of con- 
siderable revenue. 
The Committee have yet to regret the deficiency of correspondents from 
a distance, as well as of contributors here at home, to the pages of the 
work. The number of observers throughout this country must be very 
large ; yet the strong tendency of apothecaries to pursue pharmacy solely 
for a livelihood, without any manifestation of interest for its advancement, 
in a scientific point of view, is the main cause of the apathy exhibited by 
those who, if disposed, are able to write effectively. 
The annexed summary statement of the Treasurer of the Committee will 
expose the state of the finances. 
Charles Ellis, 
W. Procter, Jr., 
R. Bridges, 
Edw. Parrish, 
A. B. Taylor, 
March Zlst, 1851. Committee. 
