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with  the  instructors  of  the  pharmaceutical  laboratory  to  go  over  the 
plan  of  instruction  and  to  offer  suggestions  which  in  their  opinion 
would  increase  the  practical  efficiency  of  the  students. 
Chemical  Laboratory. — The  chemical  laboratory  has  as  usual 
been  most  active  during  the  present  session.  There  have  been  122 
first-year  students,  145  second-year  students,  6  Phar.D.  students,  8 
Ph.C.  students,  6  B.Sc.  students  (1  first-year  and  5  second-year) 
and  26  special  chemistry  students,  making  a  total  of  313  students 
taking  advantage  of  instruction  in  this  department. 
Department  of  Botany  and  Pharmacognosy. — Since  the  last 
annual  meeting,  your  former  professor  of  botany  and  pharmacognosy 
tendered  his  resignation,  which  was  accepted  by  your  Board  of 
Trustees,  and  his  assistant,  Heber  W.  Youngken,  was  placed  in 
charge  of  the  department  and  it  is  gratifying  to  report  that  his  efforts 
in  the  department  have  been  most  satisfactory. 
He  has  had  a  number  of  changes  made  in  the  laboratory,  and 
his  laboratory  is  now  in  splendid  condition  and  most  conveniently 
arranged  for  the  instruction  of  the  student  body  and  it  is  particularly 
adapted  for  research,  post-graduate  and  special  students  work. 
The  college  herbarium  is  being  rearranged  and  its  numerous 
specimen  sheets  are  being  classified  according  to  the  Engler  and 
Prantl  System.  This  work  is  extremely  slow,  but  with  the  earnest 
and  active  efforts  of  the  professor,  the  herbarium  will  be  placed  in 
satisfactory  condition. 
The  professor  has  collected  a  large  variety  of  seeds  of  medicinal 
plants  which  he  is  germinating  for  use  in  the  hothouse  and  roof 
garden.  He  also  has  secured  a  variety  of  medicinal  plants  from  the 
botanical  garden  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  and  the  Bureau 
of  Plant  Industry  at  Washington,  which  as  soon  as  the  weather  will 
permit  will  foe  transferred  to  your  roof  garden. 
Your  President  desires  to  again  express  the  hope  that  the  city  or 
state  will  in  the  near  future  see  the  desirability  of  arranging  for  a 
botanical  garden  under  the  control  of  your  College  so  as  to  assist 
the  educational  institutions  in  Philadelphia  in  the  advanced  study 
of  botany  and  pharmacognosy. 
Department  of  Bacteriology. — Professor  John  A.  Roddy,  in 
charge  of  this  department,  was  among  the  first  to  tender  his  services 
to  the  government,  and  was  early  sent  to  Fort  Slocum  and  afterwards 
to  Camp  Dix,  from  which  place  he  has  been  ordered  to  a  western 
post.    In  all  of  these  positions  he  has  been  most  active  and  efficient. 
