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Pharmaceutical  Colleges,  etc. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Phabm. 
t     Oct,  1,1872. 
fession.  While  the  older  members  of  our  profession  have  enjoyed  the  advan- 
tages of  scientific  teaching  available  in  the  older  portions  of  the  world,  the 
young  men  who  have  embraced  it  on  this  coast  have  been  obliged  to  struggle 
along  as  best  they  might,  in  too  many  instances,  perhaps,  meeting  with  such 
discouragement  as  to  compel  them  to  cease  all  attempts  at  self  education,  and 
to  be  content  with  the  mere  routine  knowledge  attained  by  observation. 
To  remedy  this  state  of  affairs,  and  to  elevate  the  standard  of  our  profession, 
is  the  aim  and  desire  of  the  Society  and  the  object  of  the  above  resolution,  in 
pursuance  of  which  the  Society,  at  the  same  meeting,  appointed  Messrs.  John 
Calvert,  J.  G.  Steele,  W.  T.  Wenzell,  Wm.  Simpson  and  Wm.  E.  Mayhew  (the 
Board  of  Directors  of  the  Society)  as  a  Committee  to  move  in  the  matter  of 
the  establishment  of  a  College  of  Pharmacy,  and  authorized  them  to  add  to 
their  number  if  deemed  advisable.  In  accordance  with  this  provision,  the 
Board  of  Directors  invited  John  A.  Bauer,  Wm.  Geary,  J.  W.  Forbes,  Wm. 
Searby,  B.  B.  Thayer  and  Ch.  S.  Biedermann  to  act  with  them  on  the  Com- 
mittee. 
On  the  7th  of  August,  1872,  the  California  College  of  Pharmacy  was  incorpo- 
rated, with  a  capital  stock  of  $100,000,  divided  into  1000  shares  of  $100  each  ; 
its  duration  to  be  50  years,  and  location  in  the  City  and  County  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  with  the  following  officers  and  trustees  :  William  T.  Wenzell,  Presi- 
dent;  J.  Winchell  Forbes,  Secretary;  J.  G.  Steele,  Treasurer ;  John  Calvert, 
Wm.  Simpson  and  W.  B.  Mayhew,  who  are  authorized  to  solicit  subscriptions 
for  the  capital  stock. 
It  has  been  determined  by  the  management  to  grant  a  scholarship  to  the 
holder  of  each  share  of  the  capital  stock,  which  shall  cover  all  fees  attendant 
upon  a  course  of  two  seasons,  except  that  of  graduation,  and  which  shall  be 
available  at  any  time  within  ODe  year  from  the  date  of  issue  of  said  share. 
The  Faculty  of  the  College  will  be  composed  of  actual  pharmacists,  and  the 
practical  as  well  as  the  theoretical  portion  of  the  Science  of  Pharmacy  will  be 
thoroughly  and  experimentally  demonstrated  ;  the  every  day  counter  manipu- 
lations sharing  equal  attention  with  the  more  abstruse  details  of  the  Labora- 
tory, as  it  is  the  aim  of  the  management  to  qualify  all  who  avail  themselves  of 
the  advantages  offered,  to  cope  with  any  and  every  emergency  that  may  arise 
in  the  transaction  of  the  business  of  legitimate  Pharmacy.  The  course  pro- 
posed, to  commence  on  the  1st  of  October,  includes  Materia  Medica,  Phar- 
macy, Chemistry  and  Botany.  In  due  time  a  prospectus  will  be  issued.  Your 
co-operation  is  respectfully  solicited. 
J.  W.  Forbes,  Secretary. 
British  Pharmaceutical  Conference. — The  ninth  annual  meeting  of  this 
body,  which  commenced  at  the  Royal  Pavilion,  Brighton,  August  13th  last^ 
has  been  a  very  successful  one,  quite  a  number  of  prominent  pharmacists  of 
Great  Britain  being  present  and  taking  part  in  the  discussions.  Mr.  H.  B. 
Brady,  the  President,  delivered  an  excellent  address,  a  considerable  portion  of 
which  was  devoted  to  pharmaceutical  education,  a  subject  which  claimed  much 
of  the  attention  of  the  Conference,  papers  on  this  theme  being  read  by  Prof. 
Attfield,  Mr.  Julius  Schweitzer  and  Mr.  Barnard  S.  Proctor,  calling  forth  an 
animated  discussion  which  in  a  great  measure  was  devoted  to  the  considera- 
tion of  the  proper  measures  requisite  for  securing  the  thorough  education  of 
the  young  pharmacists  residing  in  smaller  places.  In  regard  to  it  the  "  Phar- 
maceutical Journal"  says  :  "But  nothing  is  more  remarkable  in  this  discussion 
than  that,  with  one  object  in  view,  scarcely  two  are  agreed  as  to  the  best  mode 
of  attaining  it."  As  was  truly  said  by  one  speaker,  "  Quot  homines  tot  opint- 
ones." 
