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/Am.  Jour.  Pharw. 
\    May  t,  1872. 
macy  in  the  District  of  Columbia  is  felt,  the  pharmacists  there  may  profit  by 
the  experience  of  their  brethren  in  other  cities,  and  after  they  shall  have  es- 
tablished a  College,  that  both  the  Georgetown  and  the  Columbian  College  may 
follow  the  example  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  (see  page  191  of  our  last 
number),  which  has  been  imitated,  we  believe,  by  all  the  medical  colleges  in 
those  cities  where  Colleges  of  Pharmacy  have  thus  far  been  established. 
The  Philadelphia  Pharmacy  Bill  has  been  passed  by  both  Houses  of  the 
Legislature  and  become  a  law  through  the  signature  of  the  Governor  ;  a  copy 
of  it  will  be  found  upon  another  page,  and  enable  the  reader  to  judge  of  its 
merits.  In  several  respects  we  regard  it  as  the  best  pharmaceutical  law  which 
has  yet  been  passed  in  the  United  States,  inferior  only  to  the  one  which  the 
Governor  vetoed  on  February  19th  (see  page  136  of  March  number).  We 
firmly  adhere  to  the  doctrine  that  the  members  of  a  profession  are  better  able 
to  regulate  their  professional  affairs  than  others  not  connected  with  it,  and  we 
therefore  regret  that  it  was  deemed  advisable,  under  existiug  circumstances,  to 
change  Section  II,  as  originally  proposed,  so  as  to  take  away  from  the  College 
of  Pharmacy  the  duty  to  nominate  candidates  for  the  Examining  Board,  and 
vest  the  power  to  make  the  selection  in  the  Mayor  of  the  city  alone,  who  can 
hardly  be  expected  to  know  the  most  skilled  and  competent  pharmacists  of  the 
city,  from  whom  he  is  to  make  the  appointment. 
However,  Mayor  Stokley  appears  to  be  impressed  with  the  responsibility 
placed  upon  him  by  this  law,  and  by  a  letter  to  the  President  of  the  College, 
requested  that  its  Board  of  Trustees  should  nominate  ten  persons  suitable,  as 
the  law  requires,  for  this  position.  The  Board,  after  long  and  patient  consulta- 
tion, has  performed  this  task,  and  communicated  the  nominations  to  the  ap- 
pointing officer. 
The  Appointment  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board  of  Philadel- 
phia has  been  made  by  Mayor  Stokley  from  the  nominations  by  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  and  must  prove  eminently 
satisfactory,  because  party  politics  did  not  enter  into  consideration.  The  gen- 
tlemen appointed  were  selected  with  regard  to  their  fitness  for  the  respon- 
sible position,  and  are  well  known  and  highly  esteemed  here.  We  heartily 
congratulate  the  Mayor  on  his  excellent  choice.  The  following  is  an  exact 
copy  of  the  official  letter: 
[seal.]  Mayor's  Office  of  the  City  of  Philadelphia, 
April  24th,  1872. 
Dillwyn  Parrish,  Esq. : 
Dear  Sir, — His  Honor  the  Mayor  directs  me  to  write  you  that  the  following- 
named  gentlemen  have  been  selected  by  him  as  the  Pharmaceutical  Examining 
Board  for  the  City  of  Philadelphia,  viz. :  James  N.  Marks,  Charles  L.  Eberle, 
James  T.  Shinn,  Edward  Parrish,  and  Robert  P^ngland,  and  1  have  notified 
each  one  this  day  of  their  appointment. 
Very  respectfully. 
Wm.  Culbertson,  Clerk. 
Alumni  Association  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. — The 
fact  that  the  graduates  of  this  College  are  scattered  all  over  the  United  States, 
