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Henry  S.  Wellcome  Visits  His  Alma  Mater. — Mr.  Henry  S. 
Wellcome,  Ph.M.,  member  of  the  well-known  firm  Burroughs  Well- 
come &  Co.,  pharmaceutical  manufacturers  of  London,  England, 
paid  a  short  visit  to  Philadelphia  last  month.  As  the  guest  of 
President  Howard  B.  French  he  enjoyed  visiting  many  of  the  places 
of  interest  in  the  city  and  in  noting  the  great  advances  and  the  mod- 
ern city  that  had  developed  since  he  was  a  student  in  the  city. 
In  company  with  President  French,  on  Monday  afternoon,  May 
27,  he  visited  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  from  which 
he  was  graduated  in  1874  and  from  which  he  received  in  1903  the 
honorary  degree  of  Master  in  Pharmacy.  The  board  of  trutees  of 
the  College  were  in  session  at  the  time,  considering  the  report  of 
the  Committee  on  Examinations  and  the  Faculty  as  to  the  results 
of  the  recent  examinations  for  diplomas  to  be  conferred  at  the  com- 
ing commencement. 
Mr.  Wellcome  expressed  to  the  board  his  gratification  and  ap- 
preciation of  the  successful  and  progressive  work  carried  on  so 
consistently  by  the  College  and  his  sense  of  indebtedness  to  his  old 
teachers  whose  instruction  had  laid  the  foundation  for  his  business 
career.  He  stated  that  wThen  in  Washington  recently  he  was  pleased 
to  note  the  thoroughness  of  the  scientific  preparations  of  the  Med- 
ical Department  of  the  War  Office ;  the  elegant  and  compact  mobile 
operating  rooms  and  bacteriologic  laboratories  were  cited  as  ex- 
amples of  the  up-to-date  methods  of  surgical  and  sanitary  treatment 
to  be  employed.  He  predicted  that  in  this  war  medicine  and  phar- 
macy would  both  have  great  responsibilities  and  that  they  would 
ably  discharge  their  full  duty  and  that  pharmacy  would  ultimately 
receive  the  recognition  which  it  deserved  as  a  branch  of  modern 
medicine.  He  felicitated  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
upon  the  work  and  stand  that  it  had  taken  and  his  confidence  in  the 
aid  and  support  which  it  as  an  American  institution  and  its  graduates 
will  be  enabled  to  give  to  the  government  in  the  present  world 
struggle  for  human  liberty. 
Major  Cossar  Visits  America. — In  his  trip  around  the  world 
in  the  interest  of  the  supply  department  of  the  Australian  Medical 
Corps  and  to  report  on  the  condition  of  the  pharmaceutical  service 
for  the  Australian  troops  abroad  and  also  on  the  conditions  of  phar- 
maceutical service  in  the  armies  of  the  allies,  Senior-Major  D.  A. 
Cossar,  ranking  staff  officer  of  the  pharmaceutical  service  in  the 
