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MINUTES  OF  THE  COLLEGE. 
Philadelphia,  March  26th,  1877. 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  was  held  this  day 
at  the  Hall  of  the  College,  No.  145  North  Tenth  street. 
Robert  Shoemaker,  Vice-President,  in  the  absence  of  the  President,  occupied  the 
chair. 
Sixteen  members  were  present. 
The  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  approved. 
The  minutes  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  the  last  three  months  were  read  by 
William  C  Bakes,  Secretary  of  the  Board,  and,  on  motion,  adopted. 
Letters  from  Charles  Wirgman  and  J.  H.  Stein,  tendering  their  resignations  as 
members  of  the  College,  were  read,  and,  on  motion,  accepted. 
Thomas  S.  Wiegand,  Librarian,  read  the  following  report  for  the  year.  It  was 
on  motion,  accepted. 
The  Librarian  respectfully  reports  that  the  work  of  completing  the  arrangement  of  the  Library  has 
occupied  considerable  time  since  the  last  report. 
There  have  been  received  since  last  report,  donations  from  the  Smithsonian  Institution,  twelve 
annual  report*  which  were  not  upon  our  shelves,  and  three  quarto  volumes  of  the  "Contributions  to 
Knowledge,"  published  by  the  Institution  :  twelve  quarto  volumes  of  the  "  Memoirs  of  the  Academy 
of  Arts  and  Sciences  of  Boston"  have  been  received  in  exchange  for  certain  volumes  of  the  "Amer- 
ican Journal  of  Pharmacy;"  twenty  volumes  of  works  on  pharmacy  and  chemistry  have  been 
donated  by  Mr.  Chas.  Bullock ;  the  reports  of  the  Commissioner  of  Education  have  been  received  from 
that  bureau ;  the  catalogues  of  nearly  all  the  different  national  exhibits  at  the  Centennial  Exposition, 
held  last  year,  have  been  placed  in  our  library,  together  with  four  maps,  illustrative  of  the  Empire  of 
Brazil,  which  have  been  mounted  properly  so  as  to  preserve  them.  The  various  exchanges  received  for  our 
"Journal"  that  possess  sufficient  permanent  value  and  interest  have  been  placed  in  the  hands  of  the 
binder;  these  will  amount  to  nearly  sixty  volumes. 
A  number  of  valuable  illustrated  works  on  botany,  that  of  Nees  von  Esenbeck,  known  as  the  Dussel- 
dorf  collection  of  medical  plants,  also  the  works  of  Pavon,  Weddell  and  Eliot  Howard  on  the  Cinchonas 
are  now  in  the  Library,  having  been  procured  by  the  funds  left  by  our  former  member,  Algernon  S. 
Roberts.  A  nearly  complete  set  of  "Annales  de  Chimie  et  de  Physique,"  the  entire  set  of  "Archiv  der 
Pharmacie,''  the  complete  set  of  "American  Journal  of  Science  and  Arts,"  the  London  "  Pharmaceu- 
tical Journal  and  Transactions,"  the  "American  Journal  of  Pharmacy" — all  of  which  are  standard 
works  of  reference — while  many  others,  equally  valuable  in  the  collateral  branches  of  science,  will  enable 
members  desiring  information  to  pursue  their  investigations  with  facility.  Should  any  member  have  any 
work  belonging  to  the  Library  in  his  possession,  he  would  confer  a  favor  by  informing  the  Librarian ; 
vol.  Ill,  first  series,  of  "American  Journal  of  Pharmacy  "  has  been  missing  for  a  long  time. 
As  the  care  of  these  volumes  has  been  entrusted  to  the  Librarian,  upon  consultation  with  several 
members,  he  has  had  prepared  two  books  of  blanks — one  a  receipt,  to  be  signed  by  any  one  entitled  to 
the  use  of  the  Library,  and  the  other  a  blank  guarantee,  to  be  filled  up  and  signed  by  any  member  who 
wishes  his  assistants  to  enjoy  the  use  of  the  Library;  the  first  of  these  is  of  course  destroyed  when  the 
book  is  returned  ;  the  other  remains  in  force  as  long  as  the  assistant  uses  the  Library  with  the  consent  of 
his  employer.  These  precautions  have  been  found  essential,  as  books  have  been  borrowed,  and  the 
memoranda  regarding  them  have  been  lost  or  mislaid  and  the  books  not  returned. 
Thomas  S.  Wiegand,  chairman  of  the  Sinking  Fund  Committee,  read  his  report, 
showing  an  amount  at  interest  and  available  for  use,  considerably  in  advance  of  that 
on  hand  last  year.    The  report  was  accepted. 
The  report  of  the  Publication  Committee  was  read  by  Prof.  J.  M,  Maisch,  and 
is  as  follows.    It  was,  on  motion,  accepted. 
