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PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
Minutes  of  the  Annual  Meeting. 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
was  held  March  26,  191 7,  at  4  p.m.  in  the  library,  the  president, 
Howard  B.  French,  presiding.  Twenty-one  members  were  present. 
The  minutes  of  the  quarterly  meeting  of  the  College,  held  Decem- 
ber 26,  1916,  were  read  and  approved.  The  minutes  of  the  board 
of  trustees  for  December  5,  1916,  January  2,  191 7,  and  February  6, 
1917,  were  read  by  the  registrar,  J.  S.  Beetem,  and  approved. 
President  French  then  delivered  his  annual  address,  giving  an 
account  of  the  transactions  of  the  various  departments,  the  condi- 
tion of  the  buildings  and  an  expression  of  some  of  the  expectations 
of  the  future.  The  address  was  eagerly  listened  to  and  at  its  close 
continued  applause  was  given.  Later  in  the  session  Mr.  George 
M.  Beringer  said  that  owing  to  the  modesty  of  the  president  no  dis- 
position of  the  address  had  been  made.  He  therefore  moved  that 
the  address  be  referred  to  the  publication  committee  and  such  ab- 
stracts as  it  was  desirable  to  have  published  be  published  in  the 
American  Journal  of  Pharmacy.  Seconded  and  so  ordered  (see 
this  Journal,  page  236). 
The  report  of  the  committee  on  nominations,  Joseph  W.  England, 
chairman,  was  read  and  ordered  entered  and  filed. 
A  communication  from  Henry  C.  Blair  was  read,  declining  the 
nomination  to  the  board  of  trustees,  as  he  would  be  unable  to  serve. 
The  committee  appointed  to  draft  resolutions  in  .memory  of  our 
late  fellow  member,  Martin  I.  Wilbert,  reported  as  follows  : 
"  1865.  Martin  I.  Wilbert.  1916. 
"  At  the  quarterly  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  held 
at  the  College  December  26,  1916,  a  committee  was  appointed  for  the  purpose 
of  expressing  the  profound  sorrow  caused  by  the  sudden  death  of  Martin 
Inventius  Wilbert.  Dr.  Wilbert  died  at  the  German  Hospital  in  this  city, 
where  for  years  he  was  the  chief  pharmacist.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he 
was  engaged  in  carrying  on  important  work  for  the  government  at  the  hygienic 
laboratory,  United  States  Public  Health  Service,  Washington,  D.  C. 
"Dr.  Wilbert  was  a  graduate  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
and  one  of  its  most  prominent  representatives.  He  possessed  a  character  of 
unusual  attractiveness.  He  was  fearless,  aggressive  and  indefatigable  in  his 
endeavors  to  raise  the  status  of  professional  pharmacy,  and  yet  he  was  always 
