196  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy.       { AmAJp0rlf;imrm' 
remarkable,  I  have  lived  to  see  the  fourth  generation  of  one  of  our 
drug  houses  presiding  here  at  our  meeting  to-night.  (Applause.) 
It  is  a  remarkable  coincidence.  It  is  not  many  who  live  to  see  that 
sort  of  thing.  It  gives  me  very  great  pleasure  to  be  here  to-night,  and 
I  am  sure  that  every  one  of  us  will  see  our  way  clear  to  accept  this 
proposition.  I  had  a  very  warm  letter  from  Dr.  Chandler  on 
Saturday  requesting  that  I  would  make  a  great  effort  to  be  here. 
He  little  thought  then  that  I  would  be  here  and  he  would  not.  That 
I  regret  his  absence  it  is  not  necessary  for  me  to  say." 
Dr.  Elliott  also  spoke  in  favor  of  the  proposed  agreement,  and 
Mr.  Main  suggested  that  a  rising  vote  be  taken. 
The  chair  then  put  the  question,  and  requested  all  in  favor  of 
accepting  the  proposed  agreement  between  the  Trustees  of  Colum- 
bia College,  in  the  city  of  New  York,  and  the  College  of  Pharmacy, 
of  the  city  of  New  York,  to  signify  the  fact  by  rising. 
The  Secretary  counted  the  vote,  and  announced  seventy-nine  in 
favor  of  the  proposition. 
The  chair  then  requested  any  voting  in  the  negative  to  rise,  and, 
there  being  none,  announced  the  vote  as  unanimous. 
The  chair  then  announced  the  customary  recess  of  five  minutes 
previous  to  the  election  of  officers. 
The  following  officers  were  elected  :  President,  Nicholas  Murray 
Butler ;  First  Vice-President,  Charles  F.  Chandler ;  Second  Vice- 
President,  Wm.  Jay  Schieffelin  ;  Third  Vice-President,  Herbert  D. 
Robbins ;  Treasurer,  Clarence  O.  Bigelow  ;  Secretary,  Thomas  F. 
Main  ;  Assistant  Secretary,  O.  J.  Griffin ;  Trustees,  Messrs.  Amend, 
Goldmann,  Knapp,  White  and  Henning. 
After  the  ratification  of  the  agreement  of  consolidation  between 
the  two  institutions,  the  chairman  of  the  Drug  Trade  Section  of  the 
Board  of  Trade  and  Transportation  said  that  "  the  manufacturers  and 
the  jobbers  of  your  city  are  interested  in  your  progress,  and  stand 
ready  to  render  what  assistance  they  may  in  the  maintenance  and 
perpetuation  of  an  institution  so  necessary  for  the  welfare  of  man- 
kind, and  one  in  which  there  is  centered  so  much  of  local  pride.  I 
believe  this  to  be  a  long  stride  forward  in  the  bettering  and  raising 
of  the  standard  of  pharmaceutical  education." 
Mr.  Felix  Hirseman,  on  behalf  of  the  German  Apothecaries' 
Society,  said :  "  The  retail  pharmacists  of  this  city  in  local  associa- 
tions, and  also  in  conventions  in  the  State  of  New  York  for  the  last 
