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several  attempts  that  had  been  made  in  this  country  to  cultivate 
the  opium  poppy  and  to  produce  opium. 
Mr.  Richtmann  also  referred  to  the  several  attempts  to  sell  bogus 
opium  in  the  United  States. 
Historical  Sketch  of  the  Phi- Chi  Fraternity. 
By  J.  W.  T.  Knox,  Detroit. 
In  the  course  of  this  interesting  sketch  it  developed  that  this 
fraternity  had  its  origin  as  a  scientific  society  at  the  Michigan  State 
University  at  Ann  Arbor. 
Mr.  E.  J.  Kennedy,  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Era,  New  York,  referred 
to  a  collection  of"  Druggists'  Directories"  that  he  had  undertaken, 
and  incidentally  referred  to  some  matters  of  historic  interest  in  con- 
nection with  them. 
Prof.  Wilbur  L.  Scoville,  of  Boston,  presented  a  price  list,  pub- 
lished by  the  Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy  in  1854,  and  also 
spoke  at  some  length  of  the  history  and  evolution  of  that  institution. 
M.  I.  Wilbert,  of  Philadelphia,  referred  to  the  fact  that,  as  yet,  he 
had  not  received  any  Maisch  letters,  but  was  hopeful  that  the  future 
would  be  productive  of  better  results. 
Mr.  Wilbert  also  referred  to  a  paper  that  he  had  presented  on 
"The  Beginnings  of  Pharmacy  in  America,"  in  which  he  recounted 
some  early  practices  in  the  dispensing  of  medicines  and  also  records 
what  little  is  known  of  the  introduction  of  lectures  on  pharmacy  in 
America. 
Wm.  Mclntyre.,  of  Philadelphia,  presented  a  copy  of  the  menu  of 
the  banquet  held  in  connection  with  the  meeting  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association  in  St.  Louis  in  1871. 
It  having  been  proposed  to  develop  the  Committee  on  Historical 
Pharmacy  into  a  regularly  organized  section  it  was  moved  that  the 
chairman  of  the  committee  be  asked  to  confer  with  the  committee 
on  the  president's  address  with  a  view  of  establishing  a  Section  on 
the  "  History  of  Pharmacy." 
On  motion  it  was  also  proposed  to  appoint  a  committee  of  three 
to  confer  with  the  managers  of  the  Smithsonian  Institution,  or  the 
National  Museum,  with  a  view  of  having  established  in  either  of 
these  institutions  a  national  pharmaceutical  museum. 
Several  additional  papers  were  read  by  title,  among  them : 
41  The  Founding  of  the  Lloyd  Library,"  by  J.  U.  Lloyd  ;  "  The 
