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one  step  in  the  proper  direction.  Let  physicians  and  pharmacists  unite 
their  efforts,  that  the  public  he  protected  in  their  lives,  by  requiring  the 
least  that  can  be  expected  of  prescribers  and  dispensers  of  medicine,  who 
daily  hold  the  lives  of  the  invalids  in  their  hands  :  namely,  a  sufficient 
education.  M. 
Third  A  nnual  Report  of  the  Alumni  Association  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy.    Philada.,  1867. 
The  meeting  of  this  Association  took  place  on  the  14th  and  15th  of 
March,  During  the  sessions,  twenty-four  gentlemen  were  elected  mem- 
bers? The  election  of  officers  resulted  in  the  choice  of  Mr.  Thomas  S. 
Wiegand,  President,  Chas.  L.  Eberle  and  Ferris  Bringhurst,  Vice-Presi- 
dents, William  C.  Bakes,  Recording  Secretary,  Adolph  W.  Miller,  Corres- 
ponding Secretary,  S.  Mason  McCollin,  Treasurer,  and  an  Executive 
Board  consisting  of  Messrs.  Henry  Bower,  W.  Walter  Mullen,  T.  M. 
Newbold,  Jos.  P.  Bolton,  Milton  Huber,  Jfmes  Buckman. 
We  regret  that  the  expectations  in  regard  to  the  fund  for  the  establish- 
ment of  a  practical  department  in  connection  with  the  College,  have  not 
yet  been  realized.  Subscriptions  amounting  to  $3990  have  been  received, 
leaving  a  balance  of  over  $6000  to  be  raised  to  increase  the  amount  to  the 
proposed  sum  of  $10,000.  We  hope  that  all  interested  in  the  welfare  of 
the  College  will  feel  a  pride  to  contribute  ;  for  to  keep  pace  with  the  rapid 
progress  of  pharmacial  science,  a  laboratory  is  absolutely  necessary,  and 
we  think  the  time  not  far  distant  when  a  botanical  garden  will  be  needed 
for  the  use  of  the  students  in  acquiring  a  practical  knowledge  of  living 
medicinal  plants.  We  endorse  Mr.  Bakes'  appeal :  Will  the  graduates 
lend  a  helping  hand  to  place  our  thus-honored  institution  in  a  position  of 
inci  eased  usefulness  1"  M, 
Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy,  &c. — During 
the  agitation  in  the  State  of  Massachusetts  last  winter,  for  the  enactment 
of  a  license  law  for  the  sale  of  spirituous  liquors,  the  Massachusetts  College 
of  Pharmacy  decided  not  to  sign,  as  a  College,  a  petition  for  or  against 
such  a  law )  the  committee  of  the  College,  however,  drew  up  the  following 
petition  : 
To  the  Honorable  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  Massa- 
chusetts in  General  Court  assembled  : 
The  undersigned,  officers  and  trustees  of  the  Massachusetts  College  of 
Pharmacy,  an  institution  acting  under  a  charter  from  the  State  of  Massa- 
chusetts for  the  purpose  of  promoting  the  best  interests  of  legitimate 
pharmacy,  and  all  of  us  actively  engaged  as  dispensing  apothecaries,  re- 
spectfully represent,  that  alcohol,  wines  and  other  liquors  are  officinal 
articles  in  the  pharmacopoeias  of  all  countries,  and  without  which  no 
apothecary  could  pursue  his  business  ;  that  the  use  and  sale  of  these  arti- 
cles in  the  composition  of  medicine,  and  for  medicinal  purposes,  constitute 
a  large  item  in  our  business  ;  that  it  is  not  our  practice  nor  desire  in  any 
way  to  sell  them  to  be  used  for  purposes  of  mere  luxury,  or  to  allow  them 
to  be  drank  on  the  premises,  but  on  the  contrary  we  desire  that  the  busi- 
ness of  apothecaries  should  be  so  conducted  as  not  to  confound  it  with 
