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MINUTES  OF  THE  COLLEGE. 
New  York  gave  a  splendid  dinner  to  the  members  of  the  American  Phar- 
maceutical Association  and  a  number  of  invited  guests. 
As  a  matter  of  particular  interest,  we  may  notice  the  invitation  extend- 
ed by  Dr.  B.  R.  Squibb  to  visit  his  laboratory.  Many  members  availed 
themselves  of  this  opportunity,  and  were  gratified  by  the  examination  of 
the  many  improvements  adopted  by  our  enterprising  fellow-member. 
The  next  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  will  be 
held  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  on  the  fourth  Wednesday  of  August,  1861.  A 
committee  has  been  appointed  with  the  view  of  organizing  an  excursion 
party  from  the  Eastern  and  Northern  States,  and  of  securing  a  large  at- 
tendance of  the  Pharmaceutists  and  druggists  of  the  South,  the  West, 
and  the  Southwest,  at  the  Tenth  Annual  Meeting. 
Signed,  Jno.  M.  Maisch, 
Charles  Shivers, 
Wm.  R.  Warner, 
James  T.  Shinn, 
Geo.  J.  Scattergood, 
Delegates.'''' 
The  following  Report  was  read  by  J.  M.  Maisch,  Chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee from  which  it  emanated  : 
"  The  Committee  on  the  collection  of  Plants,  appointed  at  the  Annual 
Meeting  in  March,  respectfully  beg  leave  to  submit  the  following  report : 
From  the  beginning  of  April  to  the  end  of  August,  we  have  devoted  at 
least  one,  sometimes  two  or  three,  afternoons  every  week  to  the  gathering 
of  plants,  which  were  dried  in  the  usual  manner.  By  spending  so  much 
time  for  carrying  out  the  purposes  for  which  the  Committee  had  been  ap- 
pointed, and  by  directing  our  excursions  to  various  parts  of  the  country 
surrounding  us,  we  have  been  enabled  to  make  quite  an  extensive  collec- 
tion of  the  plants  growing  in  our  neighborhood.  We  have  not  found  the 
time  yet  to  systematically  arrange  these,  and  are,  for  this  reason,  unable 
to  lay  a  complete  list  before  the  College.  We  intend  to  continue  our  ex- 
cursions until  the  close  of  the  season. 
The  object  of  appointing  this  Committee  was,  with  the  view  of  meeting 
the  proposed  exchanges  with  the  Swiss  Apothecaries'  Association,  to  ef- 
fect which,  however,  no  authority  was  granted  them.  The  Committee 
would,  therefore,  respectfully  ask  for  the  authority  to  send  to  and  receive 
plants  from  Dr.  Fliickiger,  the  President  of  the  Swiss  Association, 
in  the  name  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
The  Committee  have  examined  the  Herbarium  of  the  College,  and  offer 
the  following  remarks  : 
There  are  now  two  collections,  besides  some  loose  specimens,  stored 
away  in  the  closets  of  the  College.  Both  contain  but  few  crypto- 
gamous  plants,  and  for  neither  of  them  has  a  catalogue  been  made  out. 
From  a  hasty  examination  of  one,  we  found  that,  although  it  was  arranged 
somewhat  in  natural  orders,  it  embraced  many  plants  not  yet  analyzed. 
The  Committee  have  as  yet  done  very  little  with  it. 
