Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  \ 
May.  1,  1874.  j 
Minutes  of  the  College. 
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Mr.  E.  W.  Bull,  of  Concord,  Massachusetts,  the  originator  of  the 
"Concord  grape,  has  produced  a  seedling  from  the  Concord,  called  the 
Cottage,  and  from  this  new  grape  the  past  season  I  made  about  one 
gallon  of  wine,  which  a  week  ago  was  harsh,  crude  and  not  palatable. 
By  the  addition  of  a  trifling — unweighed — amount  of  neutral  tartrate 
of  potassa,  and  by  heating  the  wine  to  about  50°  C,  its  character  has 
been  so  changed  and  improved  that  no  one  recognizes  in  the  present 
mild,  high  flavored,  and  not  acid  wine,  the  former  harsh,  crude,  and 
repulsive  product. 
Laboratory,  59  Broad  St.,  Boston,  Jan.  15,  1874. 
— American  Chemist,  March,  1874. 
Pmrtes  jof  i\t  f paMgp  College  0f  formats. 
Philadelphia,  3d  Month  30th,  1874. 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  was  held  this 
afternoon,  at  the  Hall  of  the  College.  Twenty-eight  members  were  present. 
Dillwyn  Parrish,  President,  in  the  chair. 
The  miuutes  of  the  meeting  in  December  last,  and  of  the  special  meeting 
held  in  February,  were  read  and  approved. 
The  minutes  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  the  past  three  months  were  read 
by  William  C.  Bakes,  Secretary  of  the  Board.  They  inform  us  that  at  the 
late  Commencement,  held  at  the  Academy  of  Music,  the  Diploma  of  the  Col- 
lege was  conferred  upon  eighty-one  graduates.  They  also  further  state  that 
the  Board  have  purchased  the  three  houses  adjoining  the  College,  fronting  on 
Tenth  Street,  making  our  lot  an  equal  width  throughout  its  entire  length,  for 
sixteen  thousand  five  hundred  dollars.  The  minutes  of  the  Board  were,  on 
motion,  unanimously  approved. 
Thomas  S.  Wiegand,  Librarian,  made  the  following  report,  which  was  ac- 
cepted and  approved  : 
"  The  Librarian  respectfully  reports  that  since  the  last  annual  meeting  there 
have  been  added  to  the  library  about  fifty  new  volumes,  most  of  them  being 
exchanges  with  other  scientific  bodies,  which,  being  of  permanent  interest  to 
the  pharmacist,  have  been  bound.  The  binder  has  uow  in  hand  forty  more  volumes 
which  will  be  finished  in  a  short  time.  The  theses  of  all  who  graduated  in  the 
spring  of  the  past  year  have  been  bound,  and  there  are  now  forty-seven  vol- 
umes of  manuscript  of  this  kind  in  the  library.  By  direction  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  the  library  was  opened  one  afternoon  and  two  evenings  each  week 
during  the  past  lecture  season,  and  over  one  half  of  the  volumes  in  the  library 
have  been  arranged  in  accordance  with  the  subjects  treated  of,  preparatory  to 
making  a  new  catalogue." 
The  following  report  of  the  Curator  was  read  and  accepted  : 
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