PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF FHARMACY. 91 
of the members present. Each member, so elected, to pay 
a contribution of twenty dollars, in lieu of all other contri- 
butions. 
We recommend the adoption of these alterations on th e 
ground that their enactment would prevent the admission 
of unqualified persons into membership in the College, 
which, under the present rules, that designate no method 
of ascertaining the professional qualifications of applicants, 
might at times occur, and which should be avoided as well 
for the credit of the Institution, as injustice to its qualified 
members and graduates. 
The Certificate of Membership is, in fact, a Diploma, 
certifying to the confidence of the College in the professional 
knowledge and skill of those to whom it is granted, and it 
is often a question with members, whether they can honestly 
vote to bestow it upon applicants, of whose fitness to receive 
it they have no means of judging. 
Your Committee know no better means of ascertaining 
the professional qualifications of applicants for Resident 
Membership, than is designated in the amended section 
now recommended for adoption, and believe that few qua- 
lified persons, desiring to become members, would object 
to a preliminary examination on these points before a com- 
mittee ; while the knowledge that no members, not gra- 
duates, were admitted who had not passed such examina- 
tion, would add to the value of a membership in the College, 
as well as tend to increase the number of students and gra- 
duates in the school of Pharmacy. 
It has been thought advisable to leave the appointment 
of the examining committee, and the affixing of a standard 
of examination to the discretion of the Board of Trustees, 
providing only that that committee should be a stated one, 
to be appointed annually ; as a committee thus appointed, 
without reference to any individual applicant, would be free 
from any suspicion of prejudice or partiality, which might 
