36  Minutes  of  the  College.  {^'^m^' 
Ititwtes  of  i\t  ftalkp  af  ifearmats. 
Philadelphia,  Twelfth  month,  29th,  1873. 
A  stated  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  was  held  this 
afternoon  in  the  College  Hall.  Nineteen  members  in  attendance.  Dillwyn 
Parrish,  President,  in  the  Chair. 
The  minntes  of  the  stated  meeting  in  September,  and  the  special  meeting  in 
October  last,  were  read  and  approved.  The  minutes  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
were  also  read  by  William  C.  Bakes,  Secretary  of  the  Board,  for  information, 
and  approved. 
Alfred  B.  Taylor,  Corresponding  Secretary,  reported  that  he  had  sent  copies 
of  the  resolutions  adopted  at  the  meeting  in  September,  relative  to  the  aboli- 
tion of  the  stamp  tax  on  medicines  to  the  different  Colleges  of  Pharmacy  and 
Pharmaceutical  Associations  in  the  United  States,  soliciting  their  co-operation 
in  endeavoring  to  effect  a  repeal  of  the  law,  and  that  a  number  of  answers  had 
been  received  by  him,  all  showing  a  general  interest  in  the  matter,  and  promis- 
ing to  use  their  best  endeavors  to  effect  a  repeal  of  the  obnoxious  features  of 
the  law. 
Charles  Bullock,  on  behalf  of  the  Committee  appointed  to  bring  forward  a 
test  case  for  a  legal  decision  relative  to  the  ruling  of  the  Commissioner  of  In- 
ternal Revenue,  made  a  verbal  report,  the  substance  of  which  was  as  follows  : 
The  Committee,  with  their  attorney,  called  upon  the  United  States  District 
Attorney,  and  agreed  with  him  to  have  the  subject  amicably  brought  before 
the  Court;  but  Supervisor  Tutton  refused  to  act  in  the  matter,  stating  that 
he  could  only  do  so  when  a  demand  had  been  made  upon  him  for  goods  seized 
by  the  revenue  officers. 
The  Committee,  therefore,  under  the  circumstances,  thought  it  best  to  aban. 
don  the  subject  for  the  present.  The  Committee,  were  on  motion,  continued. 
Mr.  Bullock  further  alluded  to  the  matter  as  it  had  been  attended  to  by  the 
Committee  of  the  Drug  Exchange,  stating  that  many  thousand  circulars  had 
been  sent  all  over  the  United  States,  and  that  petitions  had  been  signed  by 
over  three  thousand  druggists,  desiring  a  repeal  of  the  onerous  features  of  the 
law,  and  that  these  had  been  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  Hon.  Leonard  Myers, 
to  be  used  at  his  discretion  in  Congress. 
The  Committee  on  Deceased  Members  reported  that  they  had  acknowledged 
the  receipt  of  the  portrait  of  Elias  Durand,  and  conveyed  the  thanks  of  the 
College  to  Mr.  A.  B.  Durand  for  the  gift. 
Charles  Bullock,  on  behalf  of  the  Committee  on  deceased  members  alluded 
to  the  death  of  Henry  K.  Bowman,  a  member  of  the  College,  and  called  upon 
Joseph  P.  Remington,  a  friend  of  the  deceased,  who  read  the  following  obituary : 
Henry  Kresge  Bowman  was  born  in  September.  1846,  in  Kresgeville,  Mon- 
roe county,  Pa.  He  was  unfortunate  enough  to  lose  both  parents  when  very 
young,  and  he,  with  his  two  sisters,  younger  than  himself,  were  adopted  by  his 
grandfather,  Philip  Kresge,  living  in  Kresgeville,  and  a  farmer  of  the  old 
school,  one  of  the  sturdy  pioneers  of  that  part  of  the  State,  who  instilled  into 
the  mind  of  young  Henry  those  principles  of  integrity  and  honor  which  became 
his  bulwarks  in  the  short  eventful  life  that  followed. 
