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MARYLAND  COLLEGE  OP  PHARMACY. 
Mr.  Sharp  offered  the  following  resolution,  which  was  adopted : 
Resolved,  That  a  committee  be  appointed  to  investigate  the  recent  cases 
of  poisoning  by  Cyanide  of  Potassium  in  mistake  for  Chlorate  of  Potassa. 
On  motion  of  Mr.  Baxley,  Messrs.  Andrews,  Sharp,  and  Phillips  were 
appointed  as  the  committee. 
Mr.  Richard  Willis  having  been  nominated  for  membership,  was  duly 
elected.  Adjourned. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  COLLEGE. — SPECIAL  MEETING. 
Baltimore,  January  30th,  1857. 
The  College  met  upon  call  of  the  President.  Thirteen  members  present ; 
the  President  in  the  chair.  After  calling  the  meeting  to  order,  the  Presi- 
dent stated  that  the  College  was  called  together  to  hear  and  act  upon  a 
report  of  a  Committee  appointed  at  the  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees, 
on  the  23d  inst.,  to  investigate  the  circumstances  of  the  late  fatal  mistake 
made  by  the  proprietor  of  a  drug  store  in  this  city. 
The  Committee  then  presented  their  report,  which  was  adopted  by  the 
College* 
MINUTES  OF  THE  COLLEGE. 
Baltimore,  February  5th,  1857, 
The  College  met,  and  was  called  to  order  by  the  President.  Fifteen  mem- 
bers present. 
The  Committee  appointed  at  the  meeting  of  15th  of  January  "  to  take 
into  consideration  and  report  the  best  means  and  plans  for  carrying  out 
the  objects  of  the  College,  &g."  offered  the  following  report  and  resolutions, 
which  were  adopted  after  some  discussion  : 
The  undersigned,  to  whom  was  referred  the  resolutions  of  Mr.  Phillips, 
to  consider  and  report  the  best  means  and  plans  for  promoting  the  objects 
of  the  College,  in  regard  to  essays,  discussions  and  subjects  bearing  upon 
the  profession  of  Pharmacy,  respectfully  submit,  that  for  the  present  they 
consider  it  inexpedient  to  propose  plans  for  meeting  the  entire  objects  of 
the  resolution,  but  conceive  that  the  revision  of  the  processes  for  the  pre- 
parations of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia  is  desirable  to  be  entered  into  by  this 
College  ;  they  therefore  offer  the  following  resolution  ; 
Resolved,  That  at  each  stated  meeting  of  the  College,  the  Chairman  shall 
submit  a  list  of  preparations  of  the  U,  S.  Pharmacopoeia,  and  each  member 
shall  select  one  or  more  subjeets  and  report  thereon.  The  member,  upon 
the  acceptance  of  the  subject  assigned  to  him,  shall  make  as  minute  ex- 
aminations of  it  as  possible,  in  everything  of  interest,  as  to  its  sensible 
properties,  constituents,  solubility  in  different  menstrua ;  its  tendency  to 
change  or  decomposition,  and  appearance  as  made  by  different  formulae,  as 
*The  Report  and  the  resolutions  appended  to  it  were  published  in  the  March 
number  of  this  Journal,  page  189. 
