Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
May,  1896. 
Minutes  of  College  Meetings. 
291 
illustrations,  numbering  76  separate  figures,  or  an  average  of  6^  for  each 
number. 
The  total  number  of  pages  of  reading  matter  during  the  year  was  642,  an 
average  of  53^  pages  for  each  issue,  the  same  as  the  preceding  year." 
The  report  was  accepted. 
The  Curator  presented  a  statement,  a  brief  summary  of  which  is  as  follows  : 
"Your  Curator  would  respectfully  report  that  the  resolutions  passed  at  the  last 
annual  meeting  of  the  College,  to  make  certain  improvements  in  the  Museum, 
have  been  carried  out,  and  in  consequence  the  shelf  room  has  been  rearranged 
to  accommodate  fully  50  per  cent,  more  specimens.  But  even  with  this 
extension,  the  time  is  fast  approaching  when  more  and  more  shelf  room  will 
be  required  to  accommodate  the  specimens.  Your  Curator  has  now  in  process 
of  rearrangement  the  entire  collection  of  the  Museum  on  a  basis  of  classifica- 
tion that  is  simpler  and  more  ready  of  access  than  the  plan  heretofore  fol- 
lowed, 
"The  additions  to  the  Museum  during  the  year  have  been  many  and  interest- 
ing, and  in  this  connection  the  College  Pharmaceutical  Meetings  have  been  no 
small  factor  in  inducing  presentations  of  specimens.    I  am, 
' 1  Yours  respectfully, 
"J.  W.  England, 
Philadelphia,  March  30,  1896.  "Curator." 
The  Librarian  summarized  the  state  of  the  Library  and  the  receipt  of  volumes 
as  follows  : 
"The  Librarian  respectfully  reports  that,  during  the  year  1895,  there  have  been 
added  to  the  Library  by  donation  3,183  volumes,  in  addition  to  the  exchanges 
made  by  the  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  and  by  purchase  twenty-eight  volumes, 
many  of  them  being  works  of  great  interest  to  botanical  and  chemical  science. 
The  Library  is  being  more  and  more  consulted  by  both  members  and  students, 
and  by  others  who  find  works  of  reference  in  our  Library  not  accessible  else- 
where. 
"  During  the  year  there  have  been  spent  $93.05  for  binding,  and  $218.58  for 
new  books.    All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted." 
All  of  the  above  were  ordered  to  be  inscribed  on  the  minutes  of  the  College. 
The  Special  Committee  on  Delinquent  Members  concluded  their  business, 
presented  the  facts  as  ascertained  by  them,  and  recommended  that  those  whose 
names  were  indicated  should  be  dropped  from  the  roll  of  the  College,  as  being 
delinquent,  and  more  than  three  years  in  arrearage  of  dues.  The  recommenda- 
tion of  the  committee  was  sustained  by  a  unanimous  vote  of  the  members, 
and  the  committee  discontinued. 
Dr.  Adolph  W.  Miller  read  letters  of  acknowledgment  from  Dr.  Frederick 
Hoffman,  at  Berlin,  Dr.  Oscar  Loew,  of  Tokyo,  Japan,  and  Mr.  P.  L.  Simmonds, 
of  London,  in  response  to  notice  of  their  election  as  honorary  members  of  this 
College. 
Prof.  F.  G.  Ryan  offered  the  following  resolutions,  which,  after  being  discussed 
with  some  difference  of  opinion,  were  adopted,  and  the  Secretary  was  directed 
to  transmit  a  copy  to  each  representative  in  Congress  from  Pennsylvania. 
Resolutions  offered  and  passed  at  meeting  of  members  of  Philadelphia  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy,  by  Prof.  F.  G.  Ryan  : 
