94  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.     { VeJuarj/ifi1' 
Committee  on  Instruction  reported  that  the  Sub-Committee  on 
Special  Lectures  had  secured  outside  talent  to  deliver  nine  special 
lectures  during  the  College  term.  A  wide  range  of  subjects  having 
been  selected.  Several  joint  meetings  of  the  Committees  on  Instruc- 
tion and  Examinations  were  held  to  formulate  some  system  of 
grading  or  evaluation  to  be  attached  to  the  results  of  the  examina- 
tions in  the  various  branches  of  the  College — such  system  that 
differentiates  between  the  Major  and  Minor  branches.  After 
earnest  consideration,  a  plan  has  been  proposed  by  which  each  sub- 
ject of  instruction  will  be  given  a  rating  corresponding  with  its 
importance.  This  plan  will  be  put  in  force  for  the  present  year  in 
order  that  its  adaptability  to  the  conditions  now  existing  may  be 
tested. 
The  Secretary  announced  that  he  had  received  letters  from  the 
recipients  of  scholarships  expressing  their  appreciation. 
The  Chairman  read  a  letter  from  Dr.  F.  B.  Power  expressing 
his  appreciation  of  the  good  wishes  and  congratulations  extended 
him  by  the  College.  The  correspondence  was  directed  to  be  pub- 
lished in  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy. 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
September  Twenty-third,  19 13. 
Dr.  Frederick  B.  Power, 
Snow  Hill,  London,  E.  C,  England. 
Dear  Doctor : 
The  news  that  the  Committee  on  Hanbury  Medal  of  the  Pharma- 
ceutical Society  of  Great  Britain  had  awarded  you  this  year  this 
coveted  medal,  has  been  received  by  the  members  of  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy  with  mingled  feelings  of  pleasure  and  pride. 
It  is  now  nearly  forty  years  since  your  first  scientific  papers  were 
published  in  our  Journal  and  we  appreciate  that  with  the  harvest 
of  material  that  is  yours,  you  still  remember  us.  It  is  but  natural 
on  an  occasion  of  this  kind,  being  probably  the  proudest  in  your 
life,  that  we  in  offering  you  our  felicitations  and  congratulations 
should  remind  you  that  the  successive  steps  in  your  career  since 
graduating  from  our  College  and  working  in  its  faculty,  have  been 
followed  by  us  with  increasing  interest  as  year  by  year  has  passed. 
Rarely  does  it  fall  to  the  lot  of  any  one  man  to  accomplish  so  much, 
and  it  is  even  more  unusual  for  him  to  receive  while  yet  in  his  prime, 
the  recognition  he  deserves  for  the  days  and  nights  of  unremitting 
