264         Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations.  {^j^S/P** 
The  afternoon  session  was  taken  up  by  the  address  of  Mr.  J.  A.  Polhill  and  by 
discussions  on  a  pharmacy  law,  a  draft  of  which  had  been  submitted  at  the  morning 
session.  At  the  evening  session,  nominations  were  made  for  the  proposed  State 
Pharmaceutical  Board,  a  number  of  papers  were  read,  and  a  committee  appointed 
to  perfect  arrangements  for  the  twenty-sixth  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Phar- 
maceutical Association  to  be  held  at  Atlanta  in  September  next.  Mr.  Isidore 
Zacharias  was  chosen  as  the  next  orator,  and  Savannah  as  the  next  place  of  meet- 
ing, and  after  various  resolutions  of  thanks  the  meeting  adjourned. 
On  the  next  day  the  members  enjoyed  an  excursion  up  the  great  canal,  and  upon 
their  return  were  made  the  recipients  of  an  elegantly  prepared  dinner. 
Cincinnati  College  of  Pharmacy. — The  commencement  exercises  were  held  at 
College  Hall  on  Thursday  evening,  March  21st,  when  the  President,  Mr.  George 
Eger,  conferred  degrees  on  the  following  gentlemen  : 
Henry  Bertrams,  Cincinnati ;  Alex.  Colvard,  Illinois ;  L.  Dressel,  Cincinnati  5 
M.  Gleick,  Cincinnati;  Frederick  A.  Grossman,  Ohio;  Henry  Heister,  Cincinnati; 
N.  G.  Hildreth,  Ohio;  Aug.  J.  Honing,  Cincinnati;  Jno.  H.  Koenig,  Kentucky; 
Jno.  F.  Kutchbauch,  Ohio;  Chas.  A.  Mohr,  Alabama;  Leo  S.  Schreck,  Mexico. 
Addresses  were  delivered  by  Prof.  John  A.  Murphy,  M.D  ,  of  the  Miami  Medi- 
cal College,  and  by  Prof.  E.  S.  Wayne. 
The  prizes  were  then  awarded  as  follows  :  for  pharmacy,  by  Prof.  Fennel,  a  pre- 
scription desk  balance,  to  N.  G.  Hildreth  ;  the  Alumni  medal  for  general  profi- 
ciency, and  Prof.  Wayne's  gold  medal  for  proficiency  in  botany  and  materia  medica, 
to  Chas.  A.  Mohr;  the  chemistry  prize,  a  complete  set  of  blow-pipe  apparatus,  by 
Prof.  Judge,  to  Leo  S.  Schreck. 
A  life-size  portrait,  in  oil,  of  Prof.  Wayne  was  presented  to  the  College  by  Mr. 
Hofling,  on  behalf  of  the  graduating  class.  Mr.  F.  A.  Grossman  then  read  the 
valedictory,  which  concluded  the  exercises. 
The  Alumni  Association  of  the  Cincinnati  College  of  Pharmacy  held  their 
annual  meeting  on  Wednesday,  March  20th,  1878.  After  the  new  members  from 
the  graduating  class  had  been  received  into  the  association,  the  following  officers 
were  elected  for  the  ensuing  year: 
President,  Louis  Heister.  Vice-Presidents — August  Hofling,  Herman  Wilfert. 
Recording  Secretary,  Theodore  Bange.  Corresponding  Secretary,  Albert  Wetter- 
stroem.  Treasurer,  Robert  M.  Kuerze.  Executive  Board,  for  one  year — G.  A. 
Fieber,  M.  Gleick,  Theo.  Pellens,  C.  M.  Greve  ;  for  two  years — E.  A.  Schmidt) 
E.  T.  Harley.  Delegates  to  Pharmaceutical  Association — Jos.  H.  Feemster,  C.  P. 
Rendigs,  Louis  Schwab,  R.  M.  Kuerze,  C.  M.  Greve. 
The  association  will  hereafter  meet  on  the  first  Tuesday  of  every  third  month, 
for  the  discussion  of  scientific  subjects  relating  to  pharmacy  and  its  collateral 
branches.  On  Thursday  evening,  March  21st,  after  commencement  exercises,  the 
Alumni  gave  a  reception  at  the  Highland  House  in  honor  of  the  graduating  class, 
in  which  dancing  and  other  amusements  were  indulged  in. 
