Jour.  Pharru.  I 
November,  1907.  t 
Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
545 
A  communication  was  received  from  Joseph  L.  Lemberger  regret- 
ting that  an  important  engagement  prevented  his  attendance,  but 
he  wished  to  encourage  the  project  for  the  new  Pure  Food  and  Drug 
Laboratory. 
The  revision  of  the  plans  for  the  new  building  was  referred  to  the 
Committee  on  Property,  with  power  to  act. 
The  Committee  on  Library  reported  a  number  of  accessions  dur- 
ing the  month,  some  by  gift  and  others  by  purchase. 
The  Committee  on  Accounts  and  Audit  reported  having  examined 
the  accounts  of  the  treasurer,  registrar  and  the  American  Jour- 
nal of  Pharmacy,  and  found  them  correct. 
Tne  Committee  on  Instruction  presented  a  lengthy  report  cover- 
ing the  work  of  the  past  college  year,  and  submitting  a  number  of 
recommendations  for  the  action  of  the  Board.  The  recommenda- 
tions were  considered  seriatim  and  adopted. 
The  Committee  on  Commencement  reported  that  May  21,  1 908, 
would  be  the  date  for  holding  the  next  commencement. 
An  amendment  of  Article  VIII,  Section  I,  of  the  By-Laws,  pro- 
posed at  the  meeting  in  April,  was  adopted. 
The  registrar  was  authorized  to  express  the  thanks  of  the  Board 
to  the  press  of  the  city  for  the  publicity  given  the  recent  com- 
mencement exercises. 
Charles  J.  Heinle  was  elected  to  active  membership. 
C.  A.  Weidemann,  M.D., 
Recording  Secretary. 
OCTOBER  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  first  of  the  series  of  pharmaceutical  meetings  of  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy  for  1907-08  was  held  on  Tuesday 
afternoon,  October  15th,  with  Dr.  R.  V.  Mattison,  vice-president  of 
the  college,  in  the  chair. 
The  meeting  was  devoted  to  a  symposium  on  the  cultivation  of 
medicinal  plants.  Prof.  Henry  Kraemer  was  the  first  speaker  on 
the  programme,  and  in  his  opening  remarks  said  that  this  being  the 
harvest  season,  it  was  deemed  an  opportune  time  to  call  attention 
to  the  practical  results  obtained  by  several  graduates  of  the  college 
in  the  growing  of  medicinal  plants.  He  then  gave  the  results  of 
his  own  experiments  in  the  growing  of  over  100  native  medicinal 
