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ferring  another  degree. 
Your  Committee  therefore  recommend  : 
First. — That  the  title  of  "  Graduate  in  Pharmacy"  be  adhered  to  on  grant- 
ing the  Diploma  of  the  College. 
Second. — That  a  graduate  of  five  years'  standing,  engaged  in  the  practice  of' 
Phsrmacy,  on  presenting  to  the  College  an  original  dissertation  of  sufficient' 
value,  on  any  of  the  branches  taught  in  this  College,  may  have  conferred  upon 
him  the  title  of  —  . 
Third. — A  graduate  of  this  College,  recognized  by  the  Pharmaceutical  Pro- 
fession as  an  original  investigator  in  any  of  the  branches  of  the  profession,  or- 
as  an  authority  by  reason  of  superiority  in  some  branch  of  science,  may  have- 
conferred  upon  him  the  title  of  — . 
The  Board  of  Trustees  has  approved  the  tenets  in  the  above  report,  and*, 
after  a  lengthy  discussion,  filled  the  first  blank  by  Master  in  Pharmacy,  thus 
constituting  this  the  second  title  ;  while  the  consideration  of  the  third  title- 
has  been  postponed  to  a  future  meeting. 
By  request  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  the  following  paper  is  now  printed.  Its 
was  read  at  the  College  meeting,  September,  1864,  and  then  referred  for  publi- 
cation (See  Amer.  Journ.  Pharm.,  1864,  p.  538),  but  was  mislaid.  Notwithr 
standing  ten  years  have  elapsed  since,  its  interest  has  not  diminished,  but. 
rather  increased,  in  consequence  of  the  many  improvements  and  progress  during/ 
this  time.  We  feel  assured  that  our  readers  will  be  edified  by  the  perusal  oil 
these  reminiscences  of  one  of  our  oldest  druggists  and  earliest  College  mem- 
bers.   The  paper  is  printed  exactly  as  it  was  read: 
Read  at  the  Semi- Annual  Meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy y 
held  9th  month,  1864. 
To  give  you  some  idea  of  pharmacy  in  Philadelphia,  before  the  establish- 
ment of  this  College,  my  brother  Henry  served  his  apprenticeship,  during  the* 
war  of  1812,  with  one  of  the  mosx  respectable  retailers  of  the  city,  and  hag 
related  to  me  the  fact  of  his  having  to  sift  Glauber  salts  to  make  Epsom,  and. 
sift  carbonate  magnesia  to  get  calcined  magnesia. 
Epsom  salts  was  very  little  used  when  I  was  an  apprentice  ;  we  used  to  pur- 
chase from  twenty  to  forty  pounds  of  Glauber  at  a  time,  at  2\  cents  per  pound, 
while  we  would  only  buy  a  single  keg  of  Epsom,  holding  about  25  pounds,  at' 
15  cents.  The  first  really  nice  Epsom  salts  1  recollect  having  in  our  store, 
was  the  year  the  College  was  organized  ;  John  Farr,  the  noted  chemist, 
was  going  to  pay  a  visit  to  his  friends  in  Londou,  and  offered  to  make  some 
purchases  for  us,  and  one  of  the  articles  in  that  first  importation  of  our  house 
was,  two  casks,  1,190  pounds  of  beautiful  Epsom  salts,  at  a  cost  here  of  7  cents 
per  pound,  which  was  so  much  in  demand  by  the  retailers  that  we  increased 
our  orders,  until  the  Baltimore  manufacturers  put  a  stop  to  our  importations. 
of  the  article.    Super,  carb.  soda,  which  has  been  such  a  common  and  un'u- 
ALFRED  B  TAYLOR, 
CHARLES  BULLOCK,  J 
College  Hall  on  Zane  Street. 
