198  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  {^l^J^m' 
tary,  Mrs.  H.  I,.  Stiles  ;  corresponding  secretary,  Mrs.  C.  W.  Shull ;  treasurer, 
Miss  Emily  Marsden. 
The  newly  elected  President  appointed  the  following  Board  af  Managers  : — 
Mrs.T.  H.  Potts,  Mrs.  Charles  Leedoni;  Mrs.  C.  L.  Bonta,  Mrs.  Christian  Moore, 
Mrs.  J.  C.  Peacock,  Mrs.  J.  Epstein  and  Mrs.  Ida  E.  Stadelman.  Four  com- 
mittees were  appointed,  with  the  following  chairmen  :  Hospitality,  Mrs.  W. 
H.  Gano;  Social,  Mrs.  Charles  Rehfuss;  Educational,  Miss  Susanna  G.  Haydock  ; 
Press,  Mrs.  J.  Leyden  White. 
Meetings  will  be  held  on  the  second  Tuesday  of  each  month  at  the  College 
of  Pharmacy.    The  society  has  106  charter  members. 
The  Committee  on  Exhibitions  of  the  Local  Philadelphia  Branch  of  the 
A. Ph. A.  had  a  meeting  to  consider  the  exhibition  in  connection  with  the 
annual  meeting  of  the  American  Medical  Association  at  Atlantic  City  in  June. 
It  was  decided  to  make  the  exhibition  educational  in  character  and  to  limit  it  to 
comparatively  few  preparations  that  could  be  used  to  displace  some  of  the 
more  objectionable  of  the  proprietary  nostrums  now  on  the  market.  The 
subject  will  be  further  discussed  at  a  coming  meeting  of  the  local  branch  when 
the  details  of  the  exhibit  will  be  arranged. 
PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
FOOD  AND  DRUG  ANALYSIS  COURSE. 
A  new  course  for  the  special  instruction  and  training  of  Food  and  Drug 
Analysts,  at  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
By  reason  of  the  passage  of  the  National  Food  and  Drugs  Act  on  lune  30, 
1906,  there  has  developed  a  pressing  need  for  trained  chemical  and  microscopi- 
cal analysts,  not  only  on  the  part  of  the  United  States  Government,  for  the 
practical  execution  of  this  law,  but  also  on  the  part  of  large  manufacturing 
houses  and  dealers  in  drugs  and  chemicals. 
The  recent  civil  service  examination  of  candidates  to  fill  positions  of  analysts 
under  the  new  act  has  demonstrated  that  the  supply  of  such  analysts  is  entirely 
inadequate  to  meet  the  present  demands,  and  when  the  operation  of  the  law 
begins  to  be  felt  the  demand  is  certain  to  be  greatly  increased. 
In  addition  to  the  National  law,  it  is  known  that  many  States  have  similar 
legislation  under  consideration,  if  not  already  enacted.  The  present  three 
years'  course  of  this  college  leading  to  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Pharmacy 
covers  much  of  the  ground  needed  for  the  education  of  such  analysts,  and  this 
is  especially  true  of  the  regular  third-year  work,  taken  in  connection  with  the 
Supplementary  Spring  Course.  This  latter  course  has  been  in  operation  for 
several  years  past  and  will  be  found  to  contain  in  the  special  chemical  lectures 
on  Food  Analysis  and  Detection  of  Adulteration,  together  with  the  laboratory 
exercises  connected  therewith,  and  the  practical  course  in  the  Microscopical 
Examinations  of  Foods  and  Drugs,  much  that  bears  directly  on  these  subjects. 
However,  the  importance  of  the  subject  is  such,  in  view  of  the  sweeping  legis- 
lation which  has  been  enacted,  that  the  trustees  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
