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The  New  Building  of  tJie  College. 
/Am.  Jour.  Pbarm. 
I      March,  1893. 
The  Philadelphia  College  of  Apothecaries  was  instituted  February 
23,  1 82 1,  at  a  general  meeting  of  the  apothecaries  and  druggists  of 
the  city  and  districts.  At  this  meeting  it  was  proposed  "  that  the 
whole  profession  should  form  themselves  into  a  society,  for  the  two- 
fold purpose  of  providing  a  system  of  instruction  in  pharmacy,  and 
subjecting  themselves  to  regulation  in  their  business."  "This  prop- 
osition was  adopted  and  a  committee  was  appointed  to  draft  a  cor- 
responding project." 
11  The  committee  at  a  subsequent  meeting  reported  the  plan  of  the 
present  College  of  Pharmacy,  which  was  unanimously  agreed 
upon." 
"The  College  on  the  adoption  of  this  plan  immediately  became 
organized  by  the  election  of  officers  and  a  board  of  trustees, 
who  in  the  same  autumn  established  the  School  of  Pharmacy  and 
appointed  lecturers  in  time  to  commence  the  course  the  ensuing 
winter." 
"At  this  time  (1826),  the  College  included  nearly  the  whole  of  the 
druggists  and  apothecaries  of  the  City  and  Liberties,  who  have  thus 
voluntarily  placed  themselves  under  a  system  of  regulation,  and 
subjected  themselves  to  punishment  on  a  conviction  of  improper 
conduct  in  their  business." 
The  College  in  the  first  few  years  of  its  existence  was  unable  to 
erect  a  building,  but  it  was  compelled  to  rent  a  suitable  place  in 
which  to  deliver  the  lectures.  The  Hall  of  the  German  Society,  on 
Seventh  Street  above  Chestnut,  was  rented  ;  and  here  for  seven 
years  the  lectures  were  delivered.  But  in  1829,  on  May  19th,  it 
became  necessary,  owing  to  the  German  Society  needing  the  rooms 
occupied  by  the  College,  to  appoint  a  Committee  to  endeavor  to 
secure  a  permanent  situation  for  the  College.  The  following  quota- 
tions from  the  Minutes  of  the  College  show  clearly  and  succinctly 
how  the  first  building  devoted  to  pharmaceutical  instruction,  erected 
in  America,  came  into  being. 
On  the  2 1  st  of  November,  1831,  the  Committee  appointed  to 
select  a  site  for  a  building  reported  "  that  two  sites  for  the  purpose 
can  be  obtained,  one  situated  on  the  southwest  corner  of  Marble 
and  Tenth  Streets  (Marble  Street  running  east  and  west  between 
Chestnut  and  Market),  containing  on  Tenth  a  front  of  38  feet,  and 
running  in  depth  60  feet  to  a  6-foot  wide  alley,  thus  presenting  a 
ront  of  three  sides  ;  the  price  asked  for  this  site  is  $8,ooo.  The 
