an^m7^m-}        Pharmaceutical  Colleges,  etc.  52$ 
The  applications  for  laboratory  instruction  had  been  so  numerous  that  the 
twenty  tables  are  insufficient  to  accommodate  the  students,  whereupon  the 
trustees  of  the  Alumni  Association  have  ordered  twelve  additional  tables* 
which  will  be  finished  about  November  8th. 
A  number  of  the  students  of  this  College  had  united  during  the  past  summer 
and  met  regularly  at  the  College  for  mutual  improvement  in  their  studies- 
Hearing  of  the  decease  of  Professor  Parrish,  the  members  of  this  society 
adopted  the  following  resolutions  at  a  meeting  held  Sept.  28th: 
Resolved,  That  in  the  death  of  the  late  Professor  Parrish  this  Society  and 
College  have  lost  one  of  their  best  friends  and  supporters. 
Resolved,  That  the  esteem  and  regard  in  which  the  memory  of  our  late  Pro- 
fessor is  held  and  revered  by  this  Society  is  of  the  highest  type,  and  we  sin- 
cerely mourn  his  loss. 
Resolved,  That  the  high  moral  character  and  public  worth  of  our  most  tal- 
ented and  esteemed  friend  is  worthy  of  our  active  emulation. 
Resolved,  That  at  the  coming  Commencement,  in  March  next,  this  Society: 
as  a  body  wear  crape  upon  the  left  arm  as  a  mark  of  respect. 
Resolved,  That  the  family  and  relatives  of  our  lamented  friend  receive  our 
mort  cordial  sympathy  and  heartfelt  condolence,  and  we  tender  these,  the  marks 
of  our  sincere  sorrow,  in  the  hope  t  hat  they  will  not  be  accepted  as  mere  format 
resolutions,  but  as  the  expression  of  irreparable  loss  from  feeling  hearts. 
The  Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy  has  adopted  the  two-class  system,, 
one  lecture  a  week  being  delivered  to  the  junior  and  senior  classes  by  each  of 
the  three  professors.  According  to  the  prospectus,  the  subjects  will  be  divided 
as  follows  : 
Chemistry. — Junior  Class  :  Physics  and  inorganic  chemistry. 
Senior  Class:  Organic  chemistry. 
Materia  Medica  and  Botany. — Junior  Class:  Structural  botany;  drugs  de- 
rived from  the  root,  stem,  bark,  leaf  and  flower. 
Senior  Class  :  Development  and  morphology  of  plants;  fruits^ 
seeds,  drugs  without  cellular  structure,  animal  drugs. 
Pharmacy. — Junior  Class  :  Processes,  implements  and  apparatus;  officinal 
preparations. 
Senior  Class  :  Difficult  officinal  preparations,  officinal  proximate 
principles  and  medicinal  chemicals,  adulterations  and  substi- 
stutions,  extemporaneous  pharmacy. 
The  Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy  now  requires  of  all  its  students  a 
preliminary  examination  before  matriculation.  We  have  not  been  informed  of 
the  educational  standard  required  of  the  aspirants  for  matriculation. 
A  laboratory  of  analytical  chemistry  has  been  arranged  and  placed  in  charge 
of  Professor  Simon.  Students  intending  to  graduate  are  required  to  attend 
the  laboratory  and  also  the  lectures  on  analytical  chemistry. 
At  the  monthly  meeting,  held  on  10th  Oct.,  1872,  President  Prof.  J.  F.  Moore 
announced  Prof.  Edward  Parrish's  death,  and  made  some  allusions  to  the  in- 
tellectual and  social  qualities  of  the  Prof.,  as  also  his  zeal  as  teacher  of  Prac- 
tical and  Scientific  Pharmacy.  On  motion,  a  committee,  consisting  of  Messrs. 
J.  F.  Hancock,  L.  Dohme  and  E.  Eareckson,  was  appointed  to  draft  resolutions. 
