228  Pharmaceutical  Colleges,  etc 
Section  XI.  Nothing  contained  in  this  Act  shall  apply  to  or  in  any  manner 
whatever  interfere  with  the  business  of  any  practitioner  of  Medicine  who  does 
not  keep  open  shop  for  the  retailing  dispensing  or  compounding  of  Medicines 
and  Poisons  nor  prevent  him  from  administering  or  supplying  to  his  patients 
such  articles  as  may  seem  to  him  fit  and  proper  nor  shall  it  interfere  with  the 
making  and  dealing  in  proprietary  remedies  [popularly  called  Patent  Medi- 
cines]. 
Approved  April  4th,  1872. 
fljatmacetttial  Colkpss  an&  ^racmtions, 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. — The  Spring  course  on  Botany,  which 
commenced  on  April  3d,  is  better  attended  than  in  previous  years,  the  number 
of  students  being  about  30.  Every  week  one  lecture  is  delivered,  and  an 
excursion  is  made  weekly  to  a  convenient  place  in  the  neighborhood  of  Phila- 
delphia for  the  collection  of  plants.  Permission  has  again  been  granted  to 
Professor  Maisch  and  the  botanical  class  to  botanize  in  Fairmount  Park. 
Chicago  College  of  Pharmacy. — At  the  meeting  held  March  6th,  the  retir- 
ing President,  Mr.  E.  H.  Sargent,  in  his  annual  address,  spoke  feelingly  of  the 
sympathy  extended  by  the  pharmacists  of  this  country  and  Europe  to  this  Col- 
lege after  the  disastrous  conflagration.  Resolutions  of  thanks  to  all  contribu- 
tors were  adopted.  * 
The  following  officers  were  elected  :  George  Buck,  President;  Th.  H.  Pat- 
terson, J.  W.  Mill,  Vice-Presidents;  G.  M.  Hambright,  Secretary;  A.  C.  Van- 
derburgh, Treasurer  ;  A.  E.  Ebert,  Corresponding  Secretary;  W.  F.  Blocki, 
Henry  Biroth,  N.  Gray  Bartlett,  E.  H.  Sargent,  J.  G.  Borcherdt,  J.  M.  Hirsh, 
J.  H.  Mead,  Thos.  Whitfield,  Jul.  H.  Wilson,  Thos.  N.  Jamieson,  Trustees. 
The  Cincinnati  College  of  Pharmacy  closed  its  lectures  about  the  middle 
of  April.    The  course,  we  are  informed,  has  been  quite  successful. 
A  meeting  of  the  College  was  held  March  19th,  at  which  numerous  specimens 
were  presented  to  the  cabinet,  and  exhibited  to  the  College  by  Professor  Wayne 
in  an  interesting  lecture.  A  unanimous  vote  of  thanks  was  tendered  to  the 
donors,  Messrs.  Powers  &  Weightman,  Browning  &  Bros.,  and  Prof.  Wayne. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Certificates  of  Membership  was  received, 
and  the  Committee  discharged.  The  Committees  on  Pharmacy  Bill  and  on 
Bill  for  the  Establishment  of  Colleges  of  Pharmacy  were  merged  into  a  joint 
committee,  with  power  to  act  in  the  whole  matter. 
Louisville  College  of  Pharmacy. — The  first  session  in  this  institution  came 
to  a  close  on  March  29th,  the  class  numbering  26  students. 
California  Pharmaceutical  Society.— The  regular  monthly  meeting  was 
held  on  Wednesday  evening,  March  13th,  Mr.  Calvert,  in  the  absence  of  the 
President,  in  the  chair.  After  the  usual  routine  of  business  and  the  election 
of  new  members  the  Committee  on  the  New  Constitution  and  By-Laws  reported 
