546  Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
new  features  introduced  into  the  New  York  edition  of  the  Pharma- 
copoeia were  doses,  and  the  physical  and  physiological  properties 
of  the  substances  contained  therein. 
In  1 82 1  the  honorary  degree  of  Master  in  Pharmacy  was  conferred 
by  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  on  a  number  of  pharmacists,  this 
being  the  first  time  that  a  pharmaceutic  degree  was  granted  in  this 
country.  The  University  was  located  in  Ninth  Street  below  Market, 
and  a  picture  of  the  building  as  it  then  appeared  was  exhibited  by 
Mr.  Wilbert.  This  was  followed  by  a  view  of  the  celebrated  Car- 
penters' Hall,  where  the  meeting  for  organizing  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy  was  held  in  1821,  and  one  of  the  German 
Society's  building,  where  the  first  lectures  of  the  College  of  Apothe- 
caries were  given. 
Among  the  other  pictures  may  be  mentioned  those  of  the  store 
and  works  of  Dr.  Dyott,  America's  first  cutter  ;  one  of  Dr.  George 
W.  Carpenter,  the  first  to  engage  in  the  manufacture  of  proprietary 
medicines  in  this  country,  and  also  noted  as  having  first  introduced 
a  proprietary  sarsaparilla  preparation ;  and  one  of  Elias  Durand's 
store  at  Sixth  and  Chestnut  Streets,  where  soda-water  was  first  dis- 
pensed, and  where  the  first  soda-water  fountain  was  installed  as  a 
feature  of  drug-store  equipment.  Another  notable  personage  of 
this  time  was  Dr.  Samuel  Thomson,  the  founder  of  eclecticism,  and 
who  appears  from  his  portrait  to  have  been  a  man  of  more  polish 
than  he  is  sometimes  reputed  to  have  been.  The  last  picture  shown 
was  that  of  the  store  of  Edward  Parrish,  at  the  corner  of  Eighth 
and  Arch  Streets,  in  the  room  above  which  the  Alumni  Association 
of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  was  organized. 
In  this  connection  Mr.  Wilbert  presented  to  the  Publication  Com- 
mittee a  portrait  of  Daniel  B.  Smith,  who  was  the  first  chairman  of 
this  committee,  the  first  editor  of  the  American  Journal  of  Phar- 
macy, the  first  secretary  of  the  College  and  its  president  for  twenty- 
five  years. 
Dr.  Henry  Leffmann,  the  well-known  chemist  and  authority  on 
organic  analysis,  followed  with  a  paper  on  "  Food  Preservatives  " 
(see  page  503). 
Dr.  R.  G.  Eccles,  of  Brooklyn,  presented  a  paper  on  a  similar 
subject,  namely,  "  How  Food  Preservatives  Affect  the  Public 
Health  "  (see  page  506). 
In  discussing  this  subject,  M.T.  Wilbert  said: 
The  most  important  factor  in  connection  with  food  preservatives 
