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MINUTES OF THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 
Our College has, upon several occasions during the past year, had under 
consideration the subject of established and uniform standards for Imported 
Drugs and Medicines, by which their admission should be regulated alike, 
at all the ports of the United States. It is evident, that the important law 
to prevent the importation of adulterated Drugs and Medicines, cannot exert 
its full salutary effect, unless the best practicable standards of quality are 
fixed, uniformly demanded, and generally understood. 
With the hope of promoting this desired improvement, our College, last 
spring, made a proposition to the other Colleges of Pharmacy, to meet in 
convention at New York to consult on the matter, with the object, at that 
time, of laying such propositions as might be agreed upon, before the Na- 
tional Medical Convention at Charleston. The notice was short, however ; and 
though we received interesting communications from Philadelphia, Baltimore 
and Boston, yet no delegates from other cities attended. A report, presented 
by our delegates, was submitted to the National Convention. The proposed 
establishment of standards was there fully approved ; and it was the opinion 
of that body, that the subject was fitly the province of the Pharmaceutical 
profession. 
Since that time, notices more or less favorable to a convention of the 
Colleges in the fall, have appeared in several quarters. As the proposal first 
emanated from New York, it seems, by general consent, to have been left to 
New York for renewal. In regard to time and place, we have been governed 
by most of the suggestions we have received from those interested in other 
quarters. We shall be pleased to hear whether they are acceptable to yon, 
and that we may expect the pleasure of meeting you, and the benefit of your 
suggestions — the results of your judgment and experience. 
The Committee propose that the Convention should meet at 5 o'clock, P.M. 
(Wednesday, 15th of October,) at the College Rooms, No. 511 Broadway. 
Please address, 
Yours, very respectfully, 
Geo. D. Coggeshall, 
809 Broadway. 
On motion, the letter and Resolutions of the New York College of Phar- 
macy were directed to be entered on the minutes. The merits of the propo- 
sitions contained therein were fully discussed, and it was thereupon 
Resolved, to appoint three Delegates to meet the proposed Convention in 
New York, with power to fill vacancies. Charles Ellis, William Procter. Jr., 
and Alfred B. Taylor were accordingly appointed. 
The semi-annual Election for eight members of the Board of Trustees 
was held. Jacob L. Smith and Francis Zerman were appointed Tellers ; 
who reported that the following named gentlemen were elected for one year. 
Thomas P. James, Jacob L. Smith, Alfred B. Taylor, John Harris, M. D., 
William J. Jenks, Joseph Trimble, Charles Bullock, Henry C. Blair. 
Then adjourned. 
DILLWYN PARRISH, 
Secretary. 
