550  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
became  a  member  in  1875.  Referred  to  the  Committee  on  Necrology  to  pre- 
pare suitable  memoirs  for  publication  in  the  Journal. 
Prof.  Henry  Kraemer  read  a  letter  from  Dr.  F.  B.  Power,  Director  of  the 
Wellcome  Research  Laboratories,  and  an  honorary  member  of  this  College, 
stating  that  he  desired  to  present  the  papers  and  other  documents  relative  to 
the  proceedings  of  the  International  Congress  for  the  Unification  of  Potent 
Remedies,  held  at  Brussels  in  1902.  Dr.  Power's  thoughtfulness  in  making 
the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  the  repository  for  these  papers  was  com- 
mented upon,  and  the  thanks  of  the  College  were  voted  him. 
A  communication  was  received  from  Prof.  Edward  Kremers,  Chairman  of 
the  Historical  Committee  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  request- 
ing a  file  of  the  announcements  of  the  College,  together  with  any  documents 
touching  upon  the  history  of  the  College,  also  reprints  with  reference  to 
Journal  articles,  giving  page  and  author.  The  subject  was  referred  to  the 
Historical  Committee  of  the  College. 
Action  on  the  proposed  amendment  to  the  by-laws,  laid  over  from  the  last 
meeting  (see  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  August,  page  400)  was  then 
considered.  The  amendment  was  discussed  by  Messrs.  Beringer,  French. 
Kraemer,  Wiegand,  Meyer,  England,  Kraus  and  Ellis,  when  Mr.  Beringer 
proposed  an  addition  to  the  present  by-law,  Article  VIII,  Section  3,  as  a  sub- 
stitute, which  was  adopted.  The  by-law,  as  amended,  will  read  :  "All  appli- 
cations for  membership  shall  be  referred  to  a  standing  committee  of  five,  of 
which  the  Treasurer  and  Secretary  of  the  College  shall  be  members,  whose 
duty  it  shall  be  to  investigate  the  moral  character  and  professional  standing  of 
said  applicants,  and  report  at  the  next  stated  meeting  of  either  the  College  or 
Board  of  Trustees,  to  which  the  application  has  been  presented.  It  shall  also 
be  the  duty  of  this  committee  to  consider  the  ways  of  increasing  the  member- 
ship, and  to  report  annually  at  the  meeting  in  June  on  the  status  of  the  mem- 
bership of  the  College." 
The  election  for  three  Trustees  was  then  proceeded  with  ;  Messrs.  Mclntyre 
and  Kraus  were  appointed  tellers,  who,  after  a  ballot,  announced  that  Edward 
M.  Boring,  Richard  M.  Shoemaker  and  Charles  Leedotn  had  been  unanimously 
re-elected  for  the  ensuing  three  years. 
ABSTRACT  FROM  MINUTES  OF  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES  (HELD  JUNE  7,  I904). 
The  Committee  on  Library  reported  a  number  of  accessions,  among  them 
eighty-four  volumes  from  the  library  of  the  late  Charles  F.  Zeller,  presented  to 
the  College  by  his  father.  The  Committee  on  Accounts  and  Audit  reported 
that  the  books  of  the  Treasurer,  Registrar  and  Committee  on  Publication  had 
been  audited  and  found  correct. 
The  Committee  on  Announcement  reported  that  they  had  contracted  for 
the  printing  of  the  Announcements  for  the  year  1904,  and  that  they  would  be 
promptly  distributed. 
Walter  E.  Brown,  Lome  E.  Hastings,  George  A.  Siegrist  and  Harry  A. 
Spangler  were  elected  to  active  membership.  Wilbur  Le  Roy  Lafean,  Walter 
Eugene  Dittmeyer  and  Charles  B.  Fricke  were  elected  to  associate  membership. 
C.  A.  Weidemann,  M.D., 
Secretary. 
