Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  ) 
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Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy. — At  a  special  meeting,  held  Jan.  31st,  the 
pharmaceutical  law  was  again  under  consideration  (see  February  number  of 
this  Journal,  p.  85).  It  was  amended  and  a  committee  appointed  to  proceed 
to  Annapolis  and  urge  its  passage  by  the  Legislature.  The  proposed  bill  is  an 
improvement  of  the  act  passed  March  23d,  1870,  with  the  following  principal 
modifications  :  it  applies  also  to  managing  assistants  of  stores  ;  it  provides  not 
only  for  the  examination  but  also  registration  of  those  becoming  principals  or 
managing  assistants  hereafter,  and  makes  those  previously  registered,  who 
ceased  to  do  business,  subject  to  all  the  provisions  of  this  act  before  recom- 
mencing business;  it  recognizes  diplomas  of  pharmaceutical  colleges,  if  based 
upon  a  full  apprenticeship  of  four  years  •  it  requires  the  display  of  the  name 
and  of  the  words  "  registered  pharmacist"  in  front  of  every  pharmacy ;  the 
business  of  a  deceased  registered  pharmacist  may  be  conducted  for  the  benefit 
of  the  heirs  by  a  registered  pharmacist ;  the  fees  are  $5  for  each  examination, 
and  $1  for  registration  ;  one-half  of  the  fines  go  to  the  informer,  the  other  half 
to  the  Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy. 
At  the  stated  meeting  held  Feb.  8th  the  Proceedings  of  the  Congress  of 
Colleges  held  in  St.  Louis  were  read  and  discussed.  Mr.  J.  F.  Hancock  read 
an  essay  on  pharmaceutical  legislation. 
The  twentieth  annual  commencement  took  place,  at  the  New  Assembly 
Rooms,  on  Thursday  evening,  March  7th.  Professor  Claude  Baxley,  M.  D., 
announced  the  graduates,  and  the  President  conferred  the  degree  of  Graduate 
in  Pharmacy  upon  Charles  H.  Doeller,  Maryland  [Radix  zedoariw);  Ferdinand 
Hassencamp,  Jr.,  Maryland  (Hyoscyamus  niger);  Henry  A.  L'Engle,  Florida 
{Pharmacy  and  Benefit  of  Government  Protection);  N.  S.  Pursel,  Virginia 
(Salvia  officinalis)',  Lewis  C.  Roehrle,  Germany  (Phytolacca  decandra);  Wes- 
ley W.  Test,  Tennessee  (Gelsemium);  John  B.  Thomas,  Maryland  (Simaba- 
cedron),  and  Charles  T.  Thomas,  Ohio  (Aqua). 
The  degree  of  "  Master  in  Pharmacy"  was  conferred  upon  the  following  grad- 
uates :  Win.  S.  Thompson  and  A.  P.  Sharp  (Class  1842),  J.  Faris  Moore  (01. 
1847),  Lewis  Dohme  (CI.  1857),  John  F.  Hancock  (01.  1860),  and  Charles  E. 
Dohme  (CI.  1862.) 
The  valedictory  address  was  delivered  by  Prof.  J.  Faris  Moore. 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy  was  held  on 
Thursday,  March  14th,  in  the  hall  of  the  College,  No.  12  West  Baltimore 
street.  The  President,  Prof.  J.  Faris  Moore,  occupied  the  chair,  and  Mr. 
Edwin  Eareckson  acted  as  Secretary.  The  minutes  of  the  last  general  meeting 
and  the  meetings  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  were  read  and  approved.  Reports 
from  the  various  standing  committees  were  received  and  accepted.  The  com- 
mittee appointed  to  visit  Annapolis  in  regard  to  the  bill  before  the  Legislature 
relating  to  pharmacists,  made  a  report,  which  was  accepted  and  the  committee 
discharged. 
Mr.  L.  Dohme  read  an  essay  on  experiments  with  sulphovinate  of  soda  and 
its  manufacture.  A  quantity  of  newly  invented  apparatus  to  be  used  in  the 
compounding  of  drugs  were  exhibited  and  their  use  explained. 
Mr.  N.  Hynson  Jennings  made  a  few  remarks  on  the  manufacture  of  suppo- 
sitories, giving  experiments  to  illustrate  his  method. 
