200      Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Apr.  1,  1874. 
New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Association. — At  the  annual  meeting  held  in 
Jersey  City  Feb.  11th,  the  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  current  year: 
President,  James  R.  Mercein,  Jersey  City ;  Vice-Presidents,  Randal  Rickey, 
Trenton,  and  J.  De  la  Cour,  Camden  ;  Recording  Secretary,  Geo.  H.  White, 
Jersey  City;  Corresponding  Secretary,  Chas.  B.  Smith,  Newark.  Executive 
Committee,  A.  S.  White,  Mount  Holly;  C.  H.  Dalrymple,  Morristown  ;  P.  Y. 
Levering  and  W.  R.  Laird,  Jersey  City.  The  next  annual  meeting  will  be  held 
in  the  City  of  Camden. 
Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy. — The  Twenty- second 
ment  of  the  Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy  was  held  Mon 
23d,  at  Germania  Maennerchor  Hall,  and  the  President, 
conferred  the  degree  of  Graduate  in  Pharmacy  upon  the 
— the  names  in  the  order  of  merit: 
Annual  Commence- 
day  evening,  March 
,  John  F.  Hancock, 
following  gentlemen 
Wm  C.  Schiller, 
Sanguinaria  Canadensis, 
Maryland. 
E.  W.  Eilau. 
Asarum, 
(< 
Edward  M.  McComas, 
Cimicifuga  Racemosa, 
Chas.  F.  Roehle, 
Ricinus  Communis, 
Prussia. 
F.  W  Koss, 
Opium. 
Virginia. 
Chas.  G.  Smith, 
Helnoias  Dioica, 
Maryland. 
I).  E.  Schoolfield, 
Notes  on  Chemistry, 
Virginia. 
Wm.  Partlow  Thompson, 
Scabiosa  Succisa, 
Maryland. 
Oscar  Hoffmann, 
Antimony, 
Prussia. 
Henry  R.  Horstmann, 
Hydrastis  Canadensis, 
Maryland. 
Adolphus  B.  Long, 
Actinism, 
Ohio. 
Ernst  Hasenbalg, 
Chloral  Hydrate, 
Prussia. 
D.  J.  Clarke. 
Leonurus  Cardiaca, 
Maryland. 
Thos.  L.  Beckenbaugh, 
Notes  on  Pharmacy, 
A.  Schloss, 
Acidum  Tannicum, 
<  > 
Seven  first  course  students  received  honorable  mention. 
The  Valedictory  Address  was  delivered  by  Dr.  Wm.  Simon,  Professor  of 
Chemistry. 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  College  convened  at  3  P.M.,  March  24th,  John  F. 
Hancock,  President,  in  the  chair,  Dr.  Edward  Eareckson,  Secretary,  thirty 
members  answering  to  their  names.  Mr.  John  F.  Hancock  presented  the  Col- 
lege with  a  copy  of  Squire's  Companion  to  the  British  Pharmacopoeia,  and 
placed  on  exhibition  the  first  edition  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia,  of  1820,  also 
other  old  works  on  pharmacy. 
A.  P.  Sharp  related  reminiscences  of  the  late  Prof.  Wm.  Procter,  Jr  ,  locat- 
ing and  describing  the  house  (Cathedral  street)  in  this  city  in  which  he  was 
born. 
Dr.  Joseph  Roberts  read  a  paper  on  conferring  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Phar- 
macy, which  elicited  considerable  discussion,  participated  in  by  Prof.  Moore, 
L.  Dohme  and  others.  The  resolutions  embodied  in  the  paper  were  referred 
to  the  Committee  on  Revision  of  By-Laws. 
Mr.  Hancock  called  attention  to  the  use  of  filtering  paper  pulp  for  division 
