PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 1S7 
and they believe by the next meeting of the College they will 
be prepared to offer their final report. A number of the 
members of the college have agreed to contribute to the col- 
lection, from their stock, and there is every reason to suppose 
that the cabinet can be mainly filled without expense to the in- 
stitution. When the receptacles shall be ready and the col- 
lection fairly under way, the committee would suggest that 
such a notice be given of it in our Journal as will inform the 
members and associates of the College of its existence, and 
invite contributions from these and others, of all rare, interest- 
ing and curious specimens in any way connected with Phar- 
macy. The committee believe that this cabinet may be the 
nucleus of a Pharmaceutical Museum, embracing natural spe- 
cimens from the vegetable andmineral kingdoms, w hich with 
a fostering care from the College, through a suitable standing 
committee, will become respectable in its extent and exceed- 
ingly valuable as a depository to the Pharmaceutical student." 
The Secretary introduced a letter which he had received 
from Dr. Caspar W. Pennock, of Delaware County, in which 
he informs that the " Scalpel," a medical Journal in New York, 
has advertised the public " that an agreement exists between 
the druggists and most of the physicians of Philadelphia, by 
which a percentage of the profits arising from compounding 
medical prescriptions is paid by the apothecaries to the phy- 
sicians sending them said prescriptions," and that this statement 
had been republished in one or more of the public papers. 
The communication elicited an indignant denial on the part 
of the members present of any participation in such arrange- 
ment, or of any positive knowledge of its existence. But as it 
was believed the Code of Ethics adopted by this College, 
which has been extensively published and circulated, was a 
sufficient answer to such a charge, it was concluded that further 
action on the subject at this time was unnecessary. 
Joseph C. Turnpenny offered his resignation as Treasurer of 
the College, which on motion was accepted. 
On motion, it was unanimously Resolved, that the thanks of 
