322         Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations.  \Km'-^;^rm' 
It  is  also  requested  that  the  delegates  from  the  various  bodies  represented  in  the 
Association  will  have  their  credentials  ready  to  be  handed  in  at  the  first  meeting. 
Charles  Bullock,  President. 
Philadelphia,  June  i,  1877. 
PHARMACEUTICAL  COLLEGES  AND  ASSOCIATIONS. 
Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy. — The  following  named  officers  were 
elected  at  the  annual  meeting:  President,  S.  M.  Colcord;  Vice  Presidents,  T.  L. 
Jenks  and  Wm.  S.  Folger ;  Recording  Secretary,  D.  G.  Wilkins;  Corresponding 
Secretary,  G.  F.  H.  Markoe  5  Treasurer,  E.  L.  Patch  ;  Auditor,  Chas.  A.  Tufts; 
Trustees — J.  C.  Melvin,  J.  T.  Leary,  Henry  Canning,  Chas.  I.  Eaton,  I.  B.  Patten, 
G.  H.  Cowdin,  B.  F.  Stacey,  S.  C.  Tozzer. 
After  the  destruction  of  the  college  building,  January,  1877,  the  School  of 
Pharmacy  was  enabled  to  continue  the  courses  of  instruction  through  the  friendly 
aid  of  the  officers  of  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology,  who  placed  their 
chemical  lecture  room  and  apparatus  at  the  service  of  the  school  for  the  balance  of  the 
session  of  1876-7. 
The  Eleventh  Annual  Commencement  took  place  in  the  parlor  of  the  Revere 
House,  on  the  evening  of  May  10,  1877  A  Levee  was  held  during  the  early  part 
of  the  evening,  and  after  an  hour  passed  in  social  intercourse,  the  President,  S.  M. 
Colcord,  conferred  the  degree  of  Graduate  in  Pharmacy  upon  the  following  named 
gentlemen  :  Henry  Knox  Appleton,  Jr.,  Edwin  Porter  Burley,  George  William 
Flynn,  George  Melvin  Huyt,  Frank  Bassett  Meade,  Jonathan  Washburn  Pratt, 
Francis  Cook  Simson,  Geo.  Howland  Stoddard,  John  Townsend.  A  certificate  of 
proficiency  was  presented  to  Miss  Louise  Baker.  The  valedictory  was  delivered 
by  Prof.  G.  F.  H.  Markoe.  The  graduating  exercises  over,  the  company,  to  the 
number  of  one  hundred,  adjourned  to  the  dining  hall,  and  partook  of  an  elegantly 
served  dinner,  given  in  honor  of  the  class  of  '77. 
The  New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Association  held  its  annual  meeting  at  Apollo 
Hall,  in  the  city  of  Newark,  May  16,  the  President,  H.  P.  Reynolds,  in  the  chair. 
The  President  made  an  opening  address,  in  which  he  spoke  of  the  unusual  interest 
attaching  to  this  meeting,  on  account  of  the  recent  passage  of  the  long-desired  law 
to  regulate  the  practice  of  pharmacy — which  provides  for  the  appointment  by  the 
Governor  of  a  Board  of  Pharmacy  to  grant  certificates  of  registration  to  such 
persons  as  are  qualified  to  practice  pharmacy,  and  to  cause  the  prosecution  of  those 
practicing  without  such  certificate.  He  stated  that  it  now  devolves  upon  the  Asso- 
ciation to  nominate  to  the  Governor  fifteen  names,  from  which  he  shall  select  the 
board  of  five,  and  recommended  that  the  Association  constitute  the  five  members 
who  may  compose  the  Board  of  Pharmacy,  a  committee  to  procure  further  legis- 
lation. 
A  committee  was  appointed  to  nominate  fifteen  members  for  presentation  to 
