minutes  of  tl)e  College, 
At  a  stated  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  held  Third 
Month  29th,  1853.  Vice  President  Charles  Ellis  in  the  Chair.  The 
minutes  of  the  last  stated  meeting  were  read  and  approved.  The  minutes  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees  were  then  read,  by  which  the  College  is  informed 
that  Thomas  II.  Montgomery,  Bradford  Ritter  and  Henry  M.  Troth,  gra- 
duates of  the  College,  were  elected  members  by  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
•  It  also  learns  that  the  Examining  Committee  and  Professors  of  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy,  having  reported  that  each  of  the  following 
named  Candidates  had  presented  a  Thesis  and  certificate  of  character  and 
apprenticeship,  had  passed  a  satisfactory  examination,  and  were  recom- 
mended as  worthy  of  the  Degree  of  Graduate  in  Pharmacy,  that  honorary 
distinction  was  conferred  onthem  by  the  Board  of  Trustees: 
Alexander  Bachman,     Edward  T.  Pvobinson,     Frederick  Gutekunst, 
Elijah  Cheston,  Jr.,       John  F.  Sheaf,  Edward  H.  Ogden, 
John  II.  Faunce,  Turner  H.  Southall,       Lindley  J.  Pyle, 
J.  Henry  Harres,  Charles  T.  Bonsall,        William  Savery,  Jr., 
Oscar  Pollard.  John  W.  Davis,  Charles  F.  Shrom, 
Hennell  Stevens,  William  J.  Watson. 
The  Delegates  appointed  at  the  last  annual  meeting  to  attend  the  National 
Pharmaceutical  Convention,  reported  as  follows  : 
To  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
The  Delegates  appointed  at  the  last  annual  meeting  respectfully  report, 
that  the  Convention  was  held  in  Philadelphia,  and  at  the  Hall  of  this  College, 
in  accordance  with  an  invitation  extended  by  the  Board  of  Trustees,  through 
the  Journal,  and  they  herewith  present  a  prinled  copy  of  its  proceedings. 
By  the  statements  and  documents  therein  contained,  it  will  be  perceived  that 
the  Convention  resolved  itself  into  a  permanent  body,  to  meet  annually,  as- 
sumed the  title  of  "The  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,"  and  adopted 
a  Constitution  and  Code  of  Ethics,  copies  of  which  are  appended  to  the  pro- 
ceedings. 
Several  subjects  engaged  the  deliberation  of  the  Convention,  the  principal 
of  which  were  the  Drug  Law  and  its  working — the  Sale  of  Poisons — the 
subject  of  Secret  Medicines— and  Pharmaceutical  Education  and  Organiza- 
tion. 
An  Article  of  the  Constitution  declares  that  every  local  Pharmaceutical 
Association  is  entitled  to  send  five  delegates  to  the  annual  meetings  " 
In  accordance  with  this  clause,  it  will  be  necessary  for  the  College  to  ap- 
point five  delegates  to  attend  the  meeting  of  the  Association  to  be  held  at 
