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best  wishes  to  this  editorial  friend,  who  in  addition  fills  so  many 
other  important  duties  in  the  pharmaceutic  and  scientific  organiza- 
tions and  performs  each  with  marked  ability. 
Dr.  C.  T.  P.  Fennel  now  Professor  of  Materia  Medica. — Dr. 
Charles  T.  P.  Fennel,  for  fifteen  years  a  state  chemist  of  Ohio  and 
later  professor  of  chemistry  in  the  Cincinnati  College  of  Pharmacy, 
has  been  elected  to  the  chair  of  materia  medica  at  the  University  of 
Cincinnati,  made  vacant  by  the  decease  of  Dr.  Julius  Eichberg. 
Hearing  on  the  Edmonds  Bill. — Hon  S.  Hubert  Dent,  Jr., 
Chairman  of  the  Military  Committee  of  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives, has  appointed  Tuesday,  March  19,  10.30  a.m.,  as  the  time  for 
the  Committee  to  hold  a  hearing  on  H.R.  5531,  the  bill  introduced 
by  Congressman  George  W.  Edmonds  to  establish  a  Pharmaceutical 
Corps  in  the  Army. 
Pharmacy  Students  Called  to  the  Colors. — Each  month  we  note 
the  call  of  more  of  the  students  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy  to  their  country's  service.  Since  the  Christmas  holidays 
over  twenty  members  of  the  pharmacy  classes  have  been  called  to 
serve  in  the  army.  At  the  last  report  the  number  of  students  and 
graduates  of  the  P.  C.  P.  in  last  year's  classes,  enlisted  in  the  military 
and  naval  service  had  passed  beyond  the  two  hundred  mark. 
