MINUTES  OF  THE  PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE   OF  PHARMACY.  56l 
ABSTRACT  OF  MINUTES  OF  THE  PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF 
PHARMACY. 
At  a  Stated  Meeting  held  9th  mo.,  (Aug.)  26th,  1853.  First  Vice  President,  # 
Charles  Ellis,  presiding.  E.  Parrish  was  appointed  Secretary  for  the  evening. 
Afte-r  reading  the  minutes  of  the  previous  meeting,  and  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  for  past  six  months, 
The  Corresponding  Secretary  produced  letters  received  by  him,  from  Dr. 
William  Darlington,  of  West  Chester,  Pa.,  Asa  Gray,  Cambridge,  Mass.,  Dr. 
Justus  Leibig,  of  Munich,  Bavaria,  and  C.  Gerhardt,  of  Paris,  acknowledg- 
ing the  receipt  of  Certificates  of  Honorary  Membership,  and  thanking  the 
College  for  the  honor  conferred  by  their  election.  He  also  informed  that 
Elias  Durand,  of  this  city,  had  called  personally  to  make  a  like  acknow- 
ledgment, and  had  also  addressed  a  similar  note  to  the  President  of  the 
College. 
On  motion  it  was  ordered  that  these  letters  be  preserved  in  the  College 
Library,  with  the  other  similar  original  manuscript  letters  belonging  to 
the  College.  Also,  that  the  manuscript  Theses  in  the  hands  of  the  Pro- 
fessors and  on  file  in  the  College,  be  suitably  bound  under  direction  of  the 
Library  Committee  of  the  Board,  and  added  to  the  Library,  and  that  the 
future  Inaugural  Theses  be  similarly  disposed  of. 
The  following  Report  was  read  and  accepted. 
To  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
The  undersigned,  a  part  of  the  delegation  from  this  College  to  the  Ameri- 
can Pharmaceutical  Association,  Report,  that  they  proceeded  to  Boston,  in 
accordance  wilh  the  published  Call  of  the  President,  and  met  the  Associa- 
tion on  the  24th  ult.,at  the  Hall  of  the  Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy. 
The  meeting  was  well  attended,  and  marked  with  unrelaxed  interest  "to 
the  termination  of  its  sessions  on  the  afternoon  of  the  26th.  The  principal 
subjects  that  occupied  the  attention  of  the  Association,  were  the  Statistics  of 
Pharmacy  in  the  United  States,  the  working  of  the  law  for  the  Inspection  of 
Drugs,  the  sale  of  Poisons  in  this  country  in  regai  d  to  regulating  its  present  un- 
checked condition,  Pharmaceutical  Education  as  relates  more  especially  to  the 
tuition  extended  to  apprentices  and  others  in  the  shop,  the  condition  of  home 
adulteration,  and  the  propriety  of  offering  annual  prizes  for  Essays  on  Phar- 
maceutical subjects,  &c,  all  of  which  will  be  found  more  fully  set  forth  in 
the  published  -  Proceedings7'  herewith  presented. 
The  good  feeling  and  earnestness  that  prevailed  throughout  the  sittings  are, 
in  the  opinion  of  the  undersigned,  sources  of  great  encouragement  to  those 
who  look  to  this  movement  for  many  desirable  reforms;  and  they  believe, 
without  interfering  at  all  with  the  proper  spheres  and  functions  of  the  Col- 
leges of  Pharmacy,  that  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  is  destined 
to  elevate  the  standing  of  the  Pharmaceutists  of  the  United  States,  by  bring- 
ing together  the  earnest  men  of  the  whole  profession  and  directing  their 
efforts.  Charles  Ellis, 
William  Procter,  Jr., 
Edward  Parrish. 
A  suggestion  relative  to  the  publication  of  an  edition  of  Latin  Labels 
with  gilt  letters  on  a  dark  ground,  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Latin 
Labels  with  authority  to  act  if  deemed  by  them  expedient. 
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