392  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  {AmiiS,^o7rm' 
PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
The  quarterly  meeting  of  the  members  of  the  Philadelphia  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy  was  held  June  24,  1907.  The  president, 
Howard  B.  French,  presided.  Eleven  members  were  present.  The 
minutes  of  the  semi-annual  meeting,  held  March  25th,  were  read  and 
approved.  The  minutes  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  March  5th, 
April  2d,  and  May  7th  and  10th  were  read  by  the  Registrar,  J.  S. 
Beetem,  and  approved. 
The  report  of  the  delegates  to  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical 
Association  at  its  recent  meeting  at  Bedford  Springs  was  presented 
by  the  chairman,  M.  N.  Kline.  A  large  number  of  papers  was  pre- 
sented— thirty-four — the  largest  number  ever  offered  at  any  of  the 
State  meetings.  This  was  due  to  the  efficient  work  of  Professor 
Charles  H.  La  Wall,  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Papers  and 
Queries.  These  papers  covered  a  variety  of  subjects,  all  of  greater 
or  less  interest  to  pharmacists ;  a  large  number  were  devoted  to  the 
consideration  of  the  question  of  what  retail  druggists  could  do  to 
induce  physicians  to  prescribe  U.S.P.  and  N.F.  preparations,  rather 
than  the  preparations  of  pharmaceutical  manufacturers.  In  the 
report  of  the  Committee  on  Trade  Interests  were  several  recom- 
mendations of  importance,  including  one  favoring  the  organization 
of  co-operative  buying  by  the  retail  druggists. 
The  next  meeting  of  the  Association  will  be  held  at  Paxinosalnn, 
Easton. 
Dr.  J.  A.  Miller,  secretary,  and  J.  L.  Lemberger,  treasurer,  were 
re-elected  for  the  thirtieth  time.  Dr.  Lowe  supplemented  the 
report  by  saying  that  the  Association  was  welcomed  to  Bedford 
Springs  by  the  Burgess.  The  Committee  on  Adulterations  pre- 
sented a  valuable  report.  They  laid  stress  on  the  difficulty  of 
securing  pure  drugs  through  the  importers,  as  many  of  them  would 
not  meet  the  requirements  of  the  U.S.P.  Belladonna  was  cited  as 
a  notable  instance.  The  social  entertainments  were,  as  usual,  very 
good ;  one  given  by  the  hotel  management  deserving  special  men- 
tion. A  more  extended  report  is  published  in  the  American 
Journal  of  Pharmacy,  pages  332  and  367. 
The  report  of  the  Historical  Committee  was  read  by  the  chair- 
man, George  M.  Beringer.  Quite  a  large  number  of  the  graduates 
of  the  College  had  failed  to  reply  to  the  queries  sent  out  referring 
to  their  personal  careers. 
