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tern-slides,  etc.  The  auxiliary  instruction  has  also  been  extended  and 
improved.  The  work  in  the  chemical  laboratory,  in  charge  of  Prof.  F. 
Power,  has  considerably  increased.  A  goodly  number  of  students  have 
availed  themselves  of  the  facilities  offered  for  individual  study,  and  the 
class  instruction  for  the  senior  students  is  meeting  with  encouraging  suc- 
cess, while  the  more  elementary  course  arranged  for  the  juniors  is  not  as 
well  attended  as  it  should  be..  The  pharmaceutical  laboratory,  in  cliarge 
of  Prof.  J.  P.  Remington,  in  which  the,  hours  for  instruction  have  been 
doubled,  as  compared  with  previous  years,  is  well  filled  so  that  some  diffi- 
culty has  been  experienced  for  making  suitable  provisions  for  all  appli- 
cants. 
After  several  years'  labor  the  Alumni  Association  has  succeeded  in  mak- 
ing the  necessary  arrangements  for  practical  instruction  in  the  use  of  the 
microscope ;  a  number  of  Zentmayer's  instruments  have  been  purchased 
and  the  instruction  has  been  placed  in  charge  of  A.  P.  Brown,  Ph.G.y. 
whose  practical  knowledge  of  microscopy  and  vegetable  histology  will  be 
of  great  advantage  in  the  more  general  introduction  among  the  students  of 
this  College  of  the  microscope  as  one  of  the  important  aids  in  study  and 
research. 
Chemical  laboratories  are  at  present  in  operation  in  all  Colleges  of  Phar- 
macy, we  believe.  Of  the  organization  of  pharmaceutical  laboratories  out- 
side of  Philadelphia  we  have  thus  far  been  informed  that  it  was  done  in 
St.  Louis,  though  we  are  aware  that  the  same  has  been  and  is  in  contem- 
plation in  several  others. 
The  Alumni  Association  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy held  its  first  social  meeting  on  the  afternoon  of  October  10th,  and 
was  addressed  by  Dr.  Miller  on  the  "Allurements  of  Pharmacy ; "  the 
speaker  contended  that  without  expensive  advertisements  and  traveling 
salesmen,  that  absorb  a  large  share  of  the  profits  of  the  wholesale  druggist 
the  legitimate  business  in  pharmaceutical  articles  and  druggists'  sundries 
should  be  just  as  great  as  at  present,  and  that  the  saving  in  expenses  would 
result  to  the  advantage  of  the  retailer.  In  the  discussion  which  followed 
attention  was  drawn  to  the  fact  that  by  reliable  salesmen  a  business  could 
be  enlarged,  new  articles  readily  introduced,  etc.,  and  that  without  such 
means  it  would  be  difficult  to  obtain  new  customers  as  the  older  ones  died 
or  went  out  of  business. 
Mr.  Sayre  addressed  the  meeting  on  the  "  Use  of  Ammonia  in  Baking 
Powders,"  explained  its  action  and  that  of  other  chemical  mixtures,  and 
contrasted  this  with  the  old-fashioned  leavening. 
Dr.  Miller  exhibited  a  specimen  of  crystals  which  had  been  obtained  in 
the  distillation  of  cedar  shaving,  and  which  may  possibly  be  a  stearopten 
The  attacks  of  "  the  press  "  on  i)haniiacists  and  some  joints  in  relation  to 
urinary  analysis  formed  further  subjects  for  discussion. 
The  Illinois  Pharmaceutical  Association  held  its  third  armual 
meeting  in  the  armory  of  the  First  llegiment,  in  Cliicago,  October  lOth, 
nth,  and  I'ith.    The  chair  was  ()('cu[)ie(l  l)y  Pn^sident  Bourscheidt ;  the 
