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Minutes  of  the  College. 
Am.  .lour.  Pliarm. 
May,  1884. 
the  coming  months,  as  it  would  be  impracticable  during  the  College  course. 
2,350  specimens  are  now  on  exhibition. 
Respectfully  submitted, 
Chas.  Fred'k  Zeller. 
Henry  N.  Rittenhouse,  Chairman  of  the  Publishing  Committee,  read 
their  report  for  the  year,  as  follows,  viz. : 
Philadelphia,  March  31,  1883. 
To  the  Officers  and  Members  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy : 
Gentlemen: — We  herewith  present  our  annual  report  of  the  work  of 
the  Publishing  Committee  of  the  College.  vVe  have  the  pleasure  to  state 
that  the  Journal  has  been  issued  with  its  usual  regularity  and  promptness 
during  the  past  year ;  its  character  as  a  record  of  the  progress  of  Pharmacy 
and  allied  Sciences  has  maintained  the  original  purpose  for  which  it  was 
first  issued. 
The  vast  amount  of  Pharmaceutical  Literature  now  published,  and  the 
low  prices  of  subscription  at  which  most  of  it  is  sold  (no  single  journal  cost- 
ing as  much  as  the  "Am.  Journal  of  Pharmacy  "),  is  beginning  to  be  felt  in 
our  list  of  subscribers,  and  during  the  past  year  we  have  lost  a  number  of 
names. 
Since  the  foundation  of  the  Journal  in  1825,  the  conditions  of  Pharma- 
ceutical Literature  have  experienced  great  changes;  Steam  and  Electricity 
have  manifested  their  influence  in  this  as  in  other  fields  by  rapidly  dis- 
seminating scientific  information,  as  soon  as  announced,  by  investigators, 
and  the  consequence  is  a  multiplication  of  publications. 
Twenty-seven  years  ago  there  was  but  one  journal  other  than  that  of  this 
College  published  in  this  country  in  the  interests  of  Pharmacy;  but  in  the 
past  ten  years  the  number  has  increased  to  quite  ten  times  as  many  ;  most 
of  these  journals  are  published  by  their  owners  as  a  business  venture,  and 
are  managed  with  all  the  energy  and  enterprise  of  modern  business  methods. 
Advertisement  solicitors  are  numerous  and  successful,  judging  from  the 
advertising  pages  of  their  issues,  and  they  could  well  afford  to  give  their 
journals  away,  as  advertisers  seem  to  be  plentiful  and  rates  remunerative. 
This  condition  of  things,  we  think,  is  sufficient  to  fully  account  for  the  loss 
of  a  few  of  our  subscribers  in  the  past,  and  possibly,  more  in  the  future. 
The  reports  of  the  Editor  and  Business  Editor  accompany  this,  and  will 
give  in  detail  the  Literary  and  Financial  accounts  of  the  year. 
Henry  N,  Rittenhouse,  Chairman  of  Committee. 
The  Editor's  report  concerning  the  publications  in  the  Journal  is  here- 
with presented.  It  is  gratifying  in  some  respects,  especially  wherein  he 
states  that  an  increasing  interest  has  been  manifested  by  members  as  shown 
by  their  more  frequent  contributions  to  the  pages  of  the  Journal  than  for 
several  years  past,  also  in  the  number  of  papers  read  before  the  meetings  of 
the  College. 
To  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  : 
The  Editor  respectfully  reports  that  during  the  past  year  ending  with  the 
month  of  March,  1884,  there  have  been  published  in  the  Journal  68  origi- 
nal papers,  an  increase  of  11  over  the  preceding  year.  Of  this  number  11 
were  abstracts  of  theses,  27  were  contributed  by  14  members  of  the  College, 
and  30  papers  by  18  non-members.  In  this  statement  the  editorials,  reports, 
reviews,  and  similar  original  matter  are  not  included  ;  nor  does  it  include 
the  original  translations  and  abstracts  from  foreign  journals,  of  which  dur- 
ing the  past  year  Prof.  Power  contributed  6,  and  the  Editor  11  papers.  At 
the  meetings  of  the  College  held  during  the  past  year  17  papers  were  read, 
of  which  number  11  were  by  members,  and  6  by  students  of  the  College. 
The  Editor  is  pleased  to  record  the  fact  that  a  larger  number  of  members 
have  manifested  their  interest  in  the  Journal  during  the  past  year,  and 
that  a  larger  number  of  papers  have  been  read  at  the  meetings  of  the  Col- 
