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Members  are  requested  to  be  present,  or,  if  unable  to  do  so,  to  notify  the 
Secretary,  Wm.  E.  Krewson. 
ANNUAL  RECEPTION  OF  ALUMNI  ASSOCIATION. 
The  Annual  Reception  of  the  Alumni  Association  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy,  to  the  Graduating  Class  of  1899,  will  be  held  in  the  College  Build- 
ing, 145  North  Tenth  Street,  on  Monday  evening,  April  17,  1899,  at  8  p.m. 
The  following  programme  will  be  rendered  : 
Address  to  the  graduating  class  by  Mahlon  N.  Kline,  of  Philadelphia. 
Presentation  of  Gold,  Silver  and  Bronze  Medals,  and  Prize  Certificates. 
Annual  Class  Oration,  by  Wm.  Allen  Chamberlain,  of  Indianapolis,  Ind. 
Class  Poem,  by  Robert  John  Hoagland,  of  Peoria,  111. 
Class  History,  by  Arthur  Bowles  Fleming,  of  Chambersburg,  Pa. 
Class  Prophecy,  by  Christopher  Kocb,  Jr.,  of  Philadelphia. 
EXAMINATIONS. 
The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  questions  given  to  the  first  and  second  year 
classes  at  their  recent  examination.  Those  in  operative  pharmacy,  analytical 
chemistry,  botany  and  pharmacognosy  were  practical,  and  conducted  in  the 
respective  laboratories  ;  the  others  were  written  : 
FIRST  YEAR  EXAMINATION. 
THEORY  AND  PRACTICE  OF  PHARMACY. 
A — (1)  Describe  the  difference  in  the  process,  appearance  and  method  of 
use  between  a  granulated  salt  and  a  granulated  effervescent  salt.  (2)  Define 
Exsiccation.  (3)  State  the  objects  of  the  process.  (4)  Define  Digestion,  Ex- 
pression and  Maceration.    (5)  Describe  Repercolation. 
B — (1)  What  are  medicated  wines  ?  (2)  What  are  the  objections  to  the  use 
of  wine  as  a  menstruum?  (3)  Describe  a  liquid  which  possesses  all  of  the 
advantages  of  wine  as  a  menstruum  and  none  of  its  disadvantages.  (4)  Define 
Extracts  and  state  their  uses.  (5)  Are  they  uniform  in  quality  as  found  in 
commerce? 
CHEMISTEY. 
C—  (1)  Describe  the  element  Sulphur  in  its  several  physical  modifications 
and  its  commercial  forms.  (2)  Describe  the  several  oxides  of  sulphur  and 
state  how  each  may  be  formed.  (3)  Give  an  example  of  an  official  sulphite, 
sulphate  and  thiosulphate,  using  the  chemical  formula  in  each  case. 
D — (1)  Write  a  reaction  for  the  production  of  Hydrogen  Dioxide.  (2) 
What  are  the  characters  and  uses  of  Hydrogen  Dioxide,  and  what  tests  will 
show  its  presence?  (3)  What  is  the  common  name  of  Hydrogen  Nitride 
and  how  is  it  formed  ?    Give  tests  for  its  recognition. 
MATERIA  MEDICA  (PHYSIOLOGY). 
E — Digestion. — (1)  Name  the  seven  stages  of  digestion.  (2)  Name  the  di- 
gestive ferments  present  in  saliva,  gastric  juice  and  pancreatic  juice,  and  state 
the  kind  of  food  upon  which  each  of  them  acts.  The  Blood. — (3)  State  the 
color  of  arterial  blood  and  venous  blood  and  the  side  of  the  heart  in  which  each 
is  found.  (4)  In  what  three  kinds  of  vessels  does  the  blood  circulate,  and  in 
which  of  these  is  nutriment  yielded  to  the  tissues  ?    Animal  Heat. — (5)  What 
