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Minutes  of  the  College. 
J  A.m.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I      Nov.,  1877. 
committee  previously  appointed  by  the  board  to  consider  and  mature  a  plan  for  the 
representation  of  this  College  at  the  International  Exposition,  at  Paris,  in  1878. 
The  committee  state  "  that  they  have  selected  nearly  two  hundred  drugs,  which 
are  used  more  or  less  in  the  United  States,  and  are  derived  from  plants  indigenous 
or  naturalized  in  this  country,  but  not  found  in  Europe.  These  are  deemed  as  very 
well  adapted  for  exhibition.  The  committee  propose  to  obtain  for  the  purpose 
suitable  receptacles  for  the  specimens,  and  suggest  that  the  whole  collection  be 
exhibited  in  Paris  in  1878." 
"  The  Committee  propose  to  put  up  similar  collections  in  the  same  style,  with 
the  view  of  presenting  them  to  other  societies  for  the  purpose  of  exchange,  and  to 
some  institutions  where  it  is  believed  they  will  be  acceptable  and  well  cared  for. 
The  following  societies  and  institutions  have  thus  far  been  considered  in  connection 
with  this  plan.  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain  5  Apothecaries1  Society,  at 
Berlin  $  Escuela  de  Farmacia  (Prof.  Herrera),  Mexico ;  Apothecaries'  Society,  at 
Vienna  ;  Pharmaceutical  Institute  (Prof.  Fluckiger),  Strasburg  5  University  of  Tokio, 
Japan  (Dr.  Nagayo)  $  Pharmaceutical  Institute  (Prof.  Dragendorff ),  Dorpat." 
"  The  committee  further  propose  that  the  College  enter  into  correspondence 
with  the  following  gentlemen  and  societies  : 
"  Theodore  Peckolt,  Rio  de  Janeiro  (Brazil)  ;  Dr.  Gastinel  Bey,  Cairo  (Egypt); 
Prof.  X.  Landerer,  Athens  (Greece) ;  Prof.  Dymock,  Calcutta  (India)  $  Joseph 
Bosisto,  Richmond,  Melbourne  (Victoria)  ;  and  Sociendad  de  Farmacia  Argentina, 
Buenos  Ayres  ;  requesting  from  each  a  collection  of  drugs  indigenous  to  or  pecu- 
liar to  his  country,  and  offering  to  exchange  American  drugs  for  such  collections. 
The  committee  would  state  that  the  three  gentlemen  first  named  are  corresponding 
or  honorary  members  of  the  College,  and  they  believe  that  the  others  .would 
willingly  further  the  object  of  the  College." 
The  subject  under  consideration  at  the  last  meeting  relative  to  the  exemption  of 
all  members  of  the  College,  of  twenty-five  years  standing,  from  their  annual  contri- 
butions, and  which  was  laid  over  under  the  rules,  was  again  considered  and  dis- 
cussed. Messrs.  Bullock  and  Maisch  advocated  the  adoption  of  the  report  of  the 
committee,  including  the  proposed  amendment  to  the  By-Laws.  Other  members 
coinciding  in  the  measure,  a  motion  was  made  to  adopt  the  report  of  the  com- 
mittee, which  was  unanimously  agreed  to.  By  this  action,  the  amended  By-Law 
of  the  College  will  hereafter  read  as  follows  : 
Chapter  VIII,  Article  III.  Members  may  reside  in  any  part  of  the  United 
States,  and,  upon  election,  shall  pay  an  initiation  fee  of  five  dollars,  and  thereafter 
a  contribution  of  five  dollars  annually,  in  advance,  until  the  expiration  of  twenty- 
five  years,  when  their  annual  contributions  shall  cease. 
The  President,  in  conformity  with  the  resolution  passed  at  the  last  meeting, 
announced  the  committee  selected  by  the  officers  to  revise  the  United  States  Phar- 
macopoeia, as  follows  : 
To  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  : 
The  committee  appointed  to  select  eighteen  members  of  the  College  to  take  in  charge  the  subject  of 
the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  for  its  decennial  revision  in  1880,  addressed  a  circular  to  such  mem- 
bers as  they  deemed  suitable  for  the  service,  and  have  received  acceptances  from  the  following  gentlemen  : 
Thomas  S.  Wiegand,  Alfred  B.  Taylor,  Joseph  P.  Remington,  Israel  J.  Grahame,  Wallace  Procter,  Ed- 
ward Gaillard,  William  C.  Bakes,  John  M.  Maisch,  William  B.  Webb,  Robert  F.  Fairthorne,  James  T. 
