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New  York  College  of  Pharmacy. — At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Col- 
lege held  in  March,  1864,  the  degree  of  Graduate  in  Pharmacy  was  con- 
ferred  on  George  G.  Sands,  of  New  York ;  James  J.  Skelley,  of  New 
York ;  Joseph  F.  Figueron,  of  Havana  ;  Emilio  Villaverde,  of  Havana. 
Mr.  Geo.  C.  Close,  Vice-President,  addressed  the  graduates  in  a  pertinent 
speech  on  the  duties  which  they  undertook  in  becoming  pharmaceutists. 
A  general  election  of  officers  of  the  College,  to  serve  the  ensuing  years, 
1864  and  1865,  was  then  gone  into,  which  resulted  as  follows  :  President, 
H.  T.  Kiersted  ;  1st  Vice-President,  Geo.  C.  Close  ;  2d  Vice-President, 
John  Milhau  ;  Zd  Vice-President,  Isaac  Coddington  ;  Treasurer,  Thomas  T. 
Green  ;  Secretary,  P.  Wendover  Bedford :  Trustees,  George  D.  Coggeshall, 
John  Carle,  Jr.,  Wm.  Neergaard,  F.  F.  Mayer,  Wm.  Wright,  Jr.,  J.  W. 
Shedden,  A.  W.  Gabaudan,  F.  Frohwein,  B.  E.  Hays. 
Delegates  to  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  II.  T,  Kiersted, 
G.  C.  Close,  J.  W.  Shedden,  F.  F.  Mayer,  P.  W.  Bedford. 
Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy-. — At  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy,  the  following  named  officers  were 
chosen  for  the  ensuing  year:  Thomas  Hollis,  President;  Charles  A 
Tufts,  Samuel  M.  Colcord,  Vice-Presidents;  Henry  W.  Lincoln,  Record- 
ing Secretary  ;  James.  S.  Melvin,  Corresponding  Secretary  ;  Ashel  Boy- 
den,  Treasurer;  George  D.  Ricker,  Auditor;  Trustees,  Daniel  Henchman, 
Joseph  T.  Brown,  A.  P.  Melzar,  R.  R.  Kent,  Elijah  Smalley,  A.  G.  Wil- 
bor,  Isaac  T.  Campbell,  James  A.  Gleeson, 
The  British  Pharmacopoeia,  published  under  the  direction  of  the  General 
Council  of  Medical  Education  and  Registration  of  the  United  Kingdom, 
pursuant  to  the  Medical  Act,  1858.    London  :    printed  for  the  Medical 
Council  by  Spottiswoode  &  Co.  1864,  pp.  444,  octavo. 
We  have  received  a  copy  of  this  long  looked  for  work,  to  which  allusion 
has  been  frequently  made,  but  our  space  will  afford  but  a  short  notice  of 
it  in  this  number.    In  a  prefatory  chapter  the  reader  is  informed  under 
what  circumstances  the  British  Pharmacopoeia  originated  and  replaces  the 
three  Pharmacopoeias,  heretofore  in  use  in  Great  Britain  and  Ireland  ; 
and  of  the  general  plan  of  the  work,  consisting  of  two  parts  and  an  appen- 
dix.    The  greatest  difficulty  appears  to  have  presented,  in  the  Committee 
of  Revision,  to  reconcile  differences  of  opinion  in  regard  to  certain  prepar- 
ations, where  the  strength  of  the  former  preparations  varied.    In  such 
cases  the  decision  was  generally  in  favor  of  the  weaker  preparation.  The 
Committee  have  also  attempted  to  "  assimilate  the  strength  of  preparations  of 
the  same  pharmaceutic  form,  in  order  that  they  may  be  prescribed  in  similar 
doses,"  but  the  reform  in  this  direction  was  met  by  practical  difficulties, 
which  prevented  the   adoption  of   the  principle  systematically.  The 
weights  and  measures,  to  be  used  in  the  new  Pharmacopoeia,  early  at- 
