AmApOriir:i904arm'}       New  York  College  of  Pharmacy.  191 
College,  is  a  matter  of  more  than  passing  moment.  We  are  indebted 
to  Mr.  O.  J.  Griffin,  assistant  secretary  of  the  College,  for  a  typewrit- 
ten account  from  stenographer's  notes  of  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
College,  held  on  March  15th,  when  the  ratification  of  the  union  was 
effected. 
Prof.  Charles  F.  Chandler,  who  is  president  of  the  College,  was 
unable  to  be  present  on  account  of  illness,  and  in  taking  the  chair, 
Vice-President  Schieffelin  said  :  "  I  regret  exceedingly  that  President 
Chandler  is  ill  in  bed.  He  was  taken  with  the  grip  to-day,  but  got 
up  and  dressed  this  evening,  intending  to  come  to  this  meeting,  but 
they  positively  had  to  prevent  his  coming  out."  He  then  said  :  "The 
principal  business  before  us  to-night  is  to  act  upon  the  report  of  the 
special  committee  appointed  by  the  Trustees  to  confer  with  the 
authorities  of  Columbia  University.  1  have  the  honor  to  be  chair- 
man of  that  committee;  but  before  presenting  the  report,  I  will  read 
Dr.  Chandler's  letter,  which  most  of  you  have  received,  but  which 
is  important  enough  to  read  again.    The  letter  was  as  follows: 
"  The  suggestion  that  this  consolidation  should  take  place  came 
from  the  authorities  of  Columbia.  The  true  significance  of  that 
should  cause  a  great  deal  of  gratification  to  every  member  of  the 
College  of  Pharmacy,  because  it  is  undoubtedly  an  evidence  that 
those  gentlemen  conisdered  our  College  to  be  of  the  first  rank.  We 
have  known  this  ourselves;  but  to  the  public  it  has  been  regarded 
as  a  college  supported  by  the  druggists  and  organized  by  the  drug- 
gists, and  to  a  certain  extent  a  trade  college.  Why  it  hardly  seemed  to 
many  of  us  ten  or  fifteen  years  ago,  within  the  range  of  possibility  to 
become  a  part  of  the  University,  although  when  I  was  abroad  in 
Munich  and  saw  the  students  studying  pharmacy,  the  regularly 
matriculated  students  of  the  University  of  Munich,  which  was  then 
the  second  university  in  Germany,  it  occurred  to  me  then  how  unfor- 
tunate I  had  been  in  not  being  able  to  study  pharmacy  at  Columbia, 
as  I  had  been  able  to  study  chemistry,  and  I  thought  that  in  the  not 
far  distant  future  the  chemist  and  the  pharmacist  would  have  the 
great  advantage  of  the  entire  University  training.  This  advantage 
is  now  within  our  reach. 
"  I  want  to  point  out  to  you  that  all  the  members  of  the  College, 
that  all  the  students  and  graduates,  the  Trustees,  the  ex-President 
and  the  President,  and  above  all,  the  Faculty  of  the  College,  are 
the  ones  who  are  responsible  for  this  move.    I  may  say  that 
