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Meetings  at  the  College. 
J  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I  November,  1903. 
the  college  and  bear  witness  to  the  earnestness  and  ability  of  these 
early  students  in  pharmacy. 
Among  the  names  on  the  roll  of  members  are :  Dillwyn  Parrish, 
later  a  successful  Philadelphia  apothecary  and  for  many  years  presi- 
dent of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  ;  George  B.  Cogge- 
shall,  who  later  was  instrumental  in  founding  the  College  of 
Pharmacy  of  the  City  of  New  York  and  served  that  institution  in 
an  official  capacity  for  a  number  of  years.  He  was  also  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  was  the  first 
recording  secretary  of  that  association  and  later  served  as  one  of  its 
vice-presidents ;  William  R.  Fisher,  later  graduated  in  medicine, 
occupied  the  chair  of  chemistry  and  pharmacy  in  the  University  of 
Maryland  for  a  number  of  years,  and  in  1 84 1  was  elected  to  the 
chair  of  chemistry  in  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  ;  Thomas 
H.  Powers,  whose  name  will  be  recognized  by  all  as  being  intimately 
connected  with  the  development  of  chemical  industries  in  this 
country. 
Quite  a  number  of  the  papers,  prepared  and  read  by  members  ol 
this  chemical  society,  were  subsequently  published  in  the  Journal 
ol  the  college.  The  meetings  appear  to  have  been  discontinued 
after  the  third  winter;  several  of  the  members  of  the  society  con- 
tinued, however,  to  be  regular  contributors  to  the  Journal. 
The  college  meetings,  being  held  quarterly,  were  thought  by  some 
to  be  too  infrequent  for  keeping  alive  an  active  interest  in  the  scien- 
tific side  of  pharmacy.  In  1 841,  another  attempt  was  made  to 
institute  regular  scientific  meetings  apart  from  the  business  meetings 
of  the  college.  In  December  of  that  year  a  number  of  the  more 
progressive  members  petitioned  the  president  and  members  of  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  for  permission  to  hold  meetings 
in  the  college  hall.  These  meetings  were  to  be  known  as  "The 
Pharmaceutical  Meetings  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy." 
An  interesting  history  of  this  series  of  meetings,  written  by  Mr. 
Thomas  Wiegand,  was  published  in  the  American  Journal  of 
Pharmacy  some  years  ago  (1896,  page  605).  Since  that  time  the 
college  has  come  into  the  possession  of  the  original  book  of  minutes, 
which  contains  a  complete  account  of  the  whole  series  of  meetings, 
and  also  a  record  of  the  names  of  the  attendants.  This  series  of 
meetings  extended  from  January,  1842,  to  March,  i860.  The  first 
meeting  of  the  series  was  held  on  January  24,  1842,  Mr.  A.  S. 
