522 
A  Trip  to  Bermuda. 
(Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I  November,  1903. 
ings,  thus  demonstrating  that  these  meetings  had  been,  and  still 
were  considered  an  important  adjunct  of  the  work  of  the  college. 
In  1870,  after  an  interim  of  just  ten  years,  the  late  John  M.  Maisch 
was  able  to  interest  a  number  of  the  younger  members  of  the  col- 
lege in  a  project  to  revive  the  scientific  meetings.  The  well-known 
ardor  of  Professor  Maisch,  coupled  with  the  energy  and  enthusiasm 
of  a  number  of  the  then  younger  members  of  the  college,  assured  a 
permanent  revival  from  the  very  start. 
The  first  meeting  of  the  new  series  was  held  on  the  evening  of 
October  18,  1870.  As  an  interesting  coincident  it  may  be  stated 
that  W.  H.  Pile  acted  as  Registrar  of  this  initial  meeting. 
During  the  thirty-three  years  that  these  meetings  have  been  held 
the  minutes  have  been  regularly  published  in  the  Journal.  These 
published  minutes,  in  connection  with  the  written  communications 
published  in  the  same  journal,  constitute  a  very  complete  as  well  as 
an  interesting  history  of  the  various  branches  of  the  sciences  more 
or  less  intimately  connected  with  pharmacy. 
A  number  ot  the  young  men  who  a  generation  ago  were  instru- 
mental in  reinaugurating  and  popularizing  this  last  series  of  meet- 
ings, are  still  alive,  and  are  still  active  and  regular  in  their  attendance, 
thus  striving  to  contribute  their  share  toward  the  realization  of  the 
high  ideals  for  a  profession  of  pharmacy  that  prompted  the  founders 
of  this  institution,  more  than  eighty  years  ago,  to  meet  and  discuss 
matters  of  scientific  interest  in  their  chosen  occupation. 
A  TRIP  TO  BERMUDA. 
By  D.  B.  Bransoms. 
Bermuda,  or  Somer's  Islands,  also  commonly  called  Summer 
Islands,  is  a  group  of  small  islands  about  600  miles  east  by  south 
of  Cape  Hatteras  or  700  miles  !rom  New  York.  They  lie  south  of 
the  Coral  Reef,  which  extends  about  24  miles  in  length  from  N.  E. 
to  S.  W.  by  12  miles  in  breadth. 
It  is  claimed  that  Bermuda  owes  its  discovery  to  a  shipwreck  of 
one  Juan  Bermudes,  who  lost  his  vessel  on  the  reefs  about  1522. 
Another  notable  shipwreck  was  that  of  Captain  May,  an  English- 
man, about  seventy  years  later,  followed  by  that  of  Sir  George 
Somers,  the  latter  having  started  to  colonize  *the  islands  but  died 
before  accomplishing  much.    At  the  beginning  of  the  seventeenth 
