AMo^riR;m2BM'}       Pharmaceutical  Colleges,  etc.  471 
The  Alumni  Association  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  on, 
hearing  of  the  death  of  Professor  Edward  Parrish,  called  a  meeting  of  the 
Graduates,  and  on  September  19th  adopted  the  following: 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Alumni  Association  and  graduates  of  the  Philadelphia, 
College  of  Pharmacy,  held  September  IT,  1872,  the  following  memorial,  ex- 
pressive of  our  sad  bereavement  in  the  death  of  Professor  Edward  Parrish, 
was  directed  to  be  presented  to  the  family  of  our  beloved  friend  and  teacher, 
towards  whom  our  hearts  are  drawn  in  tender  sympathy,  who  have  been  so 
suddenly  bereft  of  their  life-long  companion  and  friend,  and  are  stricken  with 
a  grief  too  full  for  utterance  and  almost  overwhelming.  We  feel  that  there  is 
not  one  here  in  this  meeting,  of  those  who  have  been  privileged  to  sit  under 
his  instruction,  who  can  but  bear  testimony  to  the  great  and  almost  irreparable 
loss  which  the  profession  and  general  community  have  sustained,  and  to  the 
personal  sense  of  a  vacancy  in  the  circle  of  our  truest  and  dearest  friends, 
To  this  community,  in  which  he  has  so  long  labored,  and  maintained  an; 
untarnished  reputation,  where  indelibly  are  written  the  marks  of  his  earn- 
estness, integrity,  philanthropy  and  public  spirit,  his  memory  will  long  be 
green.  , 
The  graduates  and  students  of  the  College  will  sorely  miss  their  genial, 
warm-hearted  and  fatherly  teacher,  who  was  so  approachable,  and  so  readily 
entered  into  sympathy  with  them  in  the  difficulties  that  beset  their  paths. 
The  profession  over  this  broad  land  will  acknowledge  and  deplore  his  loss, 
and  wherever  his  professional  merit  has  been  recognized,  or  his  name  intro- 
duced, all  must  unite  in  regretting  the  dispensation  that  has  removed  him  thus 
early  from  the  field  of  his  usefulness. 
But  while  we  thus  express  our  feeling  of  a  common  sorrow,  we  have  the  great, 
consolation  of  all  Christian  hearts  to  know  that  he  was  calmly  prepared  for 
a.nd  anticipated  the  sad  event,  that  he  was  surrounded  by  those  who,  while 
strangers,  ministered  tenderly  to  the  necessities  of  his  last  illness,  and  that, 
soothed  and  sustained  by  an  unfaltering  trust,  he  approached  his  God  "  like 
one  that  draws  the  drapery  of  his  couch  about  him,  and  lies  down  to  pleasant 
dreams." 
Mississippi  State  Pharmaceutical  Association. — We  have  received  a  pam- 
phlet containing  the  proceedings  at  the  second  annual  meeting  of  this  associ- 
ation, held  at  Holly  Springs,  Miss.,  April  5th  last.  The  officers  are  :  Matthew 
F.  Ash,  of  Jackson,  President;  James  F.  Jones,  of  Macon,  Vice-President; 
John  T.  Buck,  of  Jackson,  Recording  Secretary;  Hampden  Osborne,  of  Co- 
lumbus, Corresponding  Secretary;  G.  M.  Scott,  of  Okalona.  Treasurer.  The 
third  annual  meeting  will  be  held  at  Yicksburg  on  the  first  Wednesday  in 
April,  1873. 
California  College  of  Pharmacy. — The  following  circular  letter  shows  that 
our  friends  on  the  Pacific  coast  are  determined  not  only  to  offer  educational 
facilities  to  the  young  pharmacists,  but  also  that  they  mean  to  establish  a  Col- 
lege upon  a  sound  financial  basis: 
San  Francisco,  August  20th,  1872. 
To  the  Apothecaries  of  the  Pacific  Coast : 
At  a  regular  meeting  of  the  California  Pharmaceutical  Society,  held  July 
10th,  1872,  it  was  resolved,  by  a  unanimous  vote  of  the  members,  to  take  meas- 
ures for  the  establishment  of  a  College  of  Pharmacy. 
While  actual  Counter  experience  is  indispensable  for  the  proper  qualification 
of  the  pharmacist  in  a  business  point  of  view,  it  utterly  fails  in  that  portion 
which  alone  raises  his  calling  from  the  level  of  a  trade  to  the  dignity  of  a  pro- 
