Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  ( 
Jan.  1, 1872.  S 
Pharmaceutical  Colleges,  etc. 
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f  jjarmamttol  Colleges  anft  Jactations, 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. — At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees, held  December  5th,  Prof.  Procter  offered  the  following  resolution,  which 
was  unanimously  adopted  : 
In  view  of  the  destruction  of  the  Library  of  the  Chicago  College  of  Phar- 
macy, be  it  resolved  that  a  set  of  the  "  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,"  as 
complete  as  can  be  furnished  by  this  College,  be  hereby  donated  to  the  Chicago 
College  of  Pharmacy. 
On  motion,  a  Committee  was  appointed  to  complete  as  far  as  practicable  the 
set  of  the  il  Journal,"  to  have  the  volumes  bound,  and  to  add  thereto  such  other 
books  as  they  may  be  able  to  collect  for  the  Chicago  College.  The  Committee 
consists  of  Professor  Wui.  Procter,  Thos.  S.  Wiegand,  Joseph  P.  Remington, 
James  T.  Shinn  and  Alfred  B.  Taylor. 
The  Board  has  also  somewhat  modified  one  of  the  regulations  about  gradua- 
tion. Two  examinations  are  held  annually ;  one  in  March,  at  the  close  of  the 
lectures,  and  one  in  June.  The  latter  was  mainly  established  to  accommodate 
those  students  who  at  the  Spring  examination  have  not  accomplished  their  term 
of  apprenticeship,  or  who  are  prevented  to  come  forward  on  account  of  sick- 
ness, &c.  This  provision  is  not  affected  by  the  adoption  of  the  following  addi- 
tional sentence  to  Art.  X,  Chap.  V  of  the  By-Laws  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  : 
"but  no  student  rejected  at  the  Spring  examination  shall  be  eligible  at  the  one 
held  in  the  succeeding  J une." 
At  an  early  date  last  year  the  Board  of  Trustees  appointed  a  Committee, 
consisting  of  Charles  Bullock,  James  T.  Shinn,  and  John  M.  Maisch,  to  draft 
a  law  regulating  the  practice  of  pharmacy  and  preventing  the  adulteration  of 
drugs  and  medicines  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  to  be  presented  to  the  Legis- 
lature of  Pennsylvania  meeting  in  the  beginuing  of  January.-  This  draft  was 
submitted  to  the  Board  of  Trustees,  in  November  last,  somewhat  modified,  and 
afterwards  put  into  legal  phraseology  by  A.  E.  Letchworth,  Esq. 
On  the  19th  of  December  last  a  meeting  of  the  pharmacists  and  druggists 
of  Philadelphia  was  held  at  the  lower  lecture  room  of  the  College  of  Pharmacy, 
when  Dr.  Francis  Zerinan  was  called  to  the  chair  and  Mr.  George  C.  Bower 
appointed  Secretary.  The  draft  of  the  law  was  then  read,  considered  by  sec- 
tions, and  after  several  amendments  adopted.  The  Committee  of  the  College, 
together  with  the  Chairman  of  the  meeting,  were  appointed  a  Committee  to 
lay  the  matter  before  the  Legislature,  and  were  empowered  to  add  to  their 
number  if  deemed  necessary. 
At  the  quarterly  meeting  of  the  College,  held  Dec.  26th,  the  draft  as  amended 
by  the  meeting  held  on  the  19th  was  approved. 
We  deem  the  law.  though  stringent  in  its  provisions,  calculated  to  protect 
the  public  as  well  as  the  conscientious  pharmacist,  and  hope  that  it  may  be 
passed.  Not  having  the  space  to  print  this  draft  or  enter  into  its  details,  we 
are  compelled  to  defer  comments  until  we  shall  hear  of  its  fate  before  the 
Legislature. 
