44  Obituary.— Catalogue  of  the  Class.     { Amya™;?£rm- 
While  these  meetings  give  to  the  pharmacists  an  opportunity  of  exchanging  their 
views  on  many  subjects,  the  younger  members  of  the  profession  and  the  students 
frequently  profit  by  listening  to  the  discussions  without  actively  participating  therein. 
Their  opportunity  for  comparing  notes  is  mostly  restricted  to  the  students'  societies, 
of  which  two — a  junior  and  a  senior — have  been  organized  at  the  Philadelphia  Col 
lege  of  Pharmacy,  and  are  doubtless  in  existence  at  other  institutions.  More 
recently  efforts  have  been  made  to  induce  these  younger  men  to  scientific  researches 
and  close  observations  outside  of  the  subjects  more  immediately  connected  with 
their  studies,  such  as  the  quarterly  meetings  of  the  Alumni  Association  of  the  New 
York  College  of  Pharmacy  and  the  monthly  social  and  conversational  meetings  of 
the  Alumni  Association  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  We  commend 
these  meetings  to  all  who  value  habits  of  attentive  observation  and  recognize  the 
importance  of  judicious  training  in  such  habits. 
OBITUARY. 
Marshall  Spring  Bidwell  died  at  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  21,  1877,  after  a  long 
illness  and  decline,  being  then  in  the  forty-third  year  of  his  age.  He  was  born  in 
Toronto,  Canada,  but  his  parents  moving  to  New  York  city,  he  was  educated  there 
and  graduated  at  Columbia  College  in  1856.  His  health  failing,  he  remained  for 
ten  years  in  the  country  in  Western  Massachusetts,  and  during  this  time,  from  being 
treated  with  preparations  of  silver,  his  face  acquired  a  blueish-grey  tint,  which  it 
permanently  retained.  In  1868  he  commenced  business  at  Sheffield,  Mass,  and  in 
1872  moved  to  Elmira,  having  purchased  the  store  of  Owen  &  Morse 
The  deceased  was  a  fine  scholar,  an  upright  and  amiable  man  and  a  warm  and 
devoted  friend. 
CATALOGUE 
OF  THE 
Class  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
For  the  Fifty-seventh  Session,  1877-8. 
WITH  A  LIST  OF  THEIR  PRECEPTORS  AND  LOCALITIES. 
Matriculants. 
Aaron,  James  Polk, 
Albright,  Franklin  Pierce, 
Alleman,  Emanuel,  Alison, 
Allen,  Alexander  Bonnell, 
Allen,  Jno.  Hays,  Jr. 
Allen,  Jno.  Reese, 
Allen,  Joseph  Ingersol, 
Ancker,  Louis, 
Angier,  James  Watson, 
Town  or  County. 
State. 
Preceptor. 
Hollidaysburg, 
Pa. 
Frank  H.  West. 
Allentown, 
Pa 
Van  Buskirk  &  Apple. 
Milton, 
Pa. 
W  C.  Bakes 
Flemington, 
N.J. 
C  C.  McGlaughlin,  M.D. 
Montoursville, 
Pa. 
Wilmington. 
Del. 
James  Kemble. 
Gloucester  City, 
N.J. 
Edwin  Tomlinson. 
Charleston, 
S.  C. 
Geo.  W.  Notson. 
Darby. 
Pa. 
Wardle  Ellis. 
