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on  separate  occasions,  an  annual  visit.  This  must  necessarily  involve 
considerable  expense  to  the  establishments,  for  which  your  presi- 
dent is  sure  the  membership  of  the  college  feels  duly  indebted. 
The  professor  of  pharmacy  in  his  report  expresses  his  apprecia- 
tion and  makes  very  complimentary  reference  to  those  who  assisted 
in  his  department. 
It  may  be  of  interest  for  you  to  know  that  the  large  class  this 
-year  and  the  complications  that  have  risen  by  having  two  senior 
classes,  one  three-year  and  one  two-year,  made  it  necessary  to  repeat 
the  senior  laboratory  instruction  five  times,  which  greatly  increased 
the  number  of  hours  of  class  instruction  and  rendered  necessary  the 
appointment  of  another  assistant  to  aid  in  the  laboratory  work. 
The  stock  room  connected  with  the  laboratory  of  this  department 
is  being  reorganized  so  as  to  concentrate  the  stock  and  make  it  more 
available  and  easy  of  access. 
Your  chemical  laboratories  have  never  been  so  active  as  during 
the  present  session.  In  the  annex  laboratory  accommodations  had 
to  be  provided  for  eight  students  taking  the  B.Sc.  course,  6  students 
taking  the  food  and  drug  course,  7  students  taking  the  Ph.C.  course 
and  45  students  taking  more  or  less  complete  special  chemistry 
courses ;  of  the  last  number,  8  are  graduates  in  pharmacy.  In  the 
old  laboratory  instruction  was  given  to  the  first-year  pharmacy 
students  in  two  sections,  and  to  the  second-year  pharmacy  students 
in  three  sections,  and  in  the  first  semester,  to  the  third-year  phar- 
macy students  in  two  sections.  This  meant  seven  half-days  per 
week  of  class  instruction.  In  the  remaining  open  time,  many  stu- 
dents availed  themselves  of  the  opportunity  to  do  extra  laboratory 
work;  thus,  47  first-year  students,  38  second-year  students  (6  on 
theses  subjects)  and  26  third-year  students  (18  on  theses  subjects) 
were  enrolled. 
The  above  statement  does  not  include  students  who,  failing  in 
their  laboratory  examinations,  had  to  do  some  extra  work  in  prepara- 
tion for  a  reexamination. 
Under  the  very  able  direction  of  your  professor  of  botany  and 
pharmacognosy,  the  collections  in  your  museum  have  been  rear- 
ranged, classified,  relabelled  and  are  now  in  a  monographic  form. 
They  now  comprise  the  following  subjects:  Aloes,  chocolate  and 
coffee,  opium,  licorice,  sarsaparilla,  cascara,  cinchona,  spigelia, 
hydrastis,  belladonna  and  progress  in  the  cultivation  of  medicinal 
plants.    Each  collection  includes  the  commercial  varieties  of  crude 
