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THE  PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
ANNUAL  MEETING. 
The  annual  meeting  of  members  of  the  College  was  held  on  March  27,  1899, 
at  4  p.m.  The  President,  Charles  Bullock,  presided.  The  proposition  to 
amend  By-laws  Chap.  IV,  Att.  IV,  was  referred  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  to 
the  members  of  the  College.  The  amendment  was  approved,  action  to  be 
taken  thereon  at  the  next  stated  meeting  in  June.  The  annual  meeting  being 
the  occasion  for  reports  of  the  officers  and  standing  committees,  these  were 
given  in  the  following  order:  The  Committee  on  Publication  gave  a  report 
which  corresponded  quite  closely  in  essential  details  to  that  presented  last  year. 
The  report  of  the  Editor  was  in  part  as  follows: 
"  Of  the  twelve  issues  published  during  the  last  year,  two  were  edited  by  the 
late  Professor  Trimble,  and  the  remaining  numbers  by  the  acting  editor. 
" It  ought  to  be  mentioned  that  any  favorable  features  of  the  Report  of  the 
Journal  for  the  present  year  represent,  certainly  in  part,  the  fruition  of  the 
unselfish  labors  of  Professor  Trimble. 
"The  total  number  of  pages  published  were  651.  These  were  devoted  to  68 
original  papers;  38  illustrations;  7  reprinted  articles  from  other  journals;  328 
abstracts  of  literature  relating- to  pharmacy  and  allied  subjects,  and  90  reviews 
and  bibliographical  notices  :  and  in  addition  7  biographical  sketches  and 
special  reports  of  various  pharmaceutical  and  scientific  associations,  as  well  as 
the  reports  of  the  pharmaceutical  and  other  meetings  of  the  College. 
V  The  original  articles  have  been  contributed  by  some  of  the  foremost  writers 
on  pharmaceutical  subjects  in  this  country,  as  well  as  by  some  from  abroad.  And 
further,  a  hearty  co  operation  is  manifest  in  the  numerous  reviews  and  ab- 
stracts being  furnished  the  Journal  by  prominent  investigators  in  their 
special  lines,  besides  one  or  more  contributions  from  all  of  the  members  of  the 
faculty  of  our  own  College." 
The  Curator,  J.  W.  England,  presented  a  report  of  the  condition  of  the 
Museum  and  its  accessions  during  the  year.  One  of  the  most  notable  was  a 
collection  of  upwards  of  300  specimens  of  crude  drugs  from  many  parts  of  the 
world  received  from  the  Philadelphia  Museums,  through  Mr.  Howard  B.  French. 
The  Curator  presented  two  recommendations.  The  one,  a  suggestion  of  Mr. 
James  C.  Perry,  that  a  working  collection  of  the  nearly  1,000  official  drugs  and 
preparations  be  placed  in  the  Students'  Reading-room,  alongside  of  the  Stu- 
dents' Herbarium,  so  that  both  could  be  used,  side  by  side,  and  day  by  day. 
The  other  recommendation  was  that  cases  be  built  along  the  west  wall  of  the  Mu- 
seum, below  the  window  sill,  with  upper  cases  in  each  of  three  blank  wall  spaces, 
the  tops  of  the  latter  to  be  on  a  level  with  the  other  high  cases  in  the  room. 
Both  recommendations  were  received  and  referred  to  the  Board  of  Trustees 
with  a  favorable  recommendation. 
The  Librarian,  Thomas  S.  Wiegand,  reported  that  during  the  past  year  there 
had  been  added  to  the  library  by  presentation  150  volumes,  including  nearly 
100  from  the  family  of  the  late  Professor  Trimble  ;  by  purchase,  30  volumes, 
not  including  the  serials  received  as  exchanges  for  the  American  Journal  of 
Pharmacy,  which  number  nearly  149  separate  publications. 
The  donations  were  in  some  classes  extremely  valuable,  and  make  the 
chemical  section  of  the  library  of  much  greater  use  than  ever  before. 
