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Meetings  at  the  College. 
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Roberts,  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  presiding,  and  Am- 
brose Smith  acting  as  secretary. 
A  plan  of  organization  was  read  and  discussed.  It  was  finally 
decided  that  the  meetings  be  held  on  Monday  evening  of  every 
other  week  from  October  to  May,  at  jy2  o'clock,  and  that  all  papers 
read  at  the  sessions  be  referred  to  a  committee  for  examination,  to 
be  reported  on  at  the  next  meeting. 
At  the  election  which  followed,  Dr.  William  Fisher  was  elected 
chairman  and  William  Procter,  Jr.,  was  elected  secretary  of  the 
Pharmaceutical  meetings. 
Considerable  interest  appears  to  have  been  taken  in  those  meet- 
ings ;  they  were  well  attended  and  the  subjects  presented  or  intro- 
duced for  discussion  were  interesting  and  varied 
The  last  meeting  of  the  season  was  held  on  May  9th,  when  the 
members  adjourned  to  the  following  October. 
At  the  stated  meeting  of  the  college,  held  September  27,  1842, 
the  pharmaceutical  meetings  were  reorganized.  These  meetings 
were,  in  future,  to  be  considered  an  integral  part  of  the  college  work, 
held  exclusively  for  scientific  purposes.  Among  other  innovations 
the  frequency  and  date  of  the  meetings  were  changed  to  read  "  the 
first  Monday  in  each  month." 
Under  this  new  arrangement  the  first  meeting  was  held  on  Monday 
evening,  October  3d.  At  this  meeting  William  Procter,  Jr.,  was 
requested  to  act  as  assistant  secretary,  an  office  he  filled  consecu- 
tively for  nearly  ten  years. 
The  meetings  were  held  with  considerable  regularity  for  a  number 
of  years,  usually  from  September  to  May,  inclusive.  The  number 
and  variety  of  subjects  presented  and  discussed  are  evidenced  by 
the  published  communications  in  the  American  Journal  of  Phar- 
macy. Looking  over  the  names  of  regular  attendants  recorded  in 
the  minutes  one  is  struck  with  the  fact  that  but  few,  very  few,  of 
these  early  workers  are  still  with  us.  Of  the  hundred  or  more 
names  recorded  as  being  regular  attendants  not  more  than  half-a- 
dozen  are  of  men  that  are  alive  at  the  present  time. 
These  minutes  have  also  preserved  an  interesting  bit  of  history 
that  should  be  recorded ;  this  is  the  fact  that  even  at  the  inaugural 
meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  such  of  the 
delegates  as  were  interested  had  an  opportunity  of  attending  a 
meeting  at  which  scientific  subjects  were  presented  and  discussed. 
