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Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I  Novenibei".  1903. 
meetings,  and  soliciting  the  co-operation  of  all  those  who  may  have 
an  interest  in  matters  of  this  kind.  It  should  also  be  stated  that 
the  papers  presented  at  these  meetings  are  for  the  most  part  pub- 
lished in  this  Journal  and  thus  are  conserved. 
TheJ  programme  of  this  inaugural  meeting  embraced  a  variety  of 
topics,  and  attracted  a  goodly  number  of  the  pharmacists  of  the  city 
as  well  as  others  connected  with  the  College. 
M.  I.  Wilbert,  who  is  Secretary  of  the  Historical  Committee  of 
the  College,  was  the  first  speaker  introduced  and  read  a  paper 
entitled  "  Scientific  Meetings  at  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy," exhibiting  in  conjunction  therewith  a  minute-book  of  these 
meetings  covering  the  period  from  1841  to  i860,  and  also  a  valuable 
collection  of  photographs,  including  those  of  a  number  of  the  older 
drug  stores  of  Philadelphia  (see  page  515). 
Dr.  Arthur  Dare,  of  Jefferson  Medical  College,  read  a  paper  entitled 
"A  New  Method  for  the  Determination  of  the  Alkalinity  of  the 
Blood,"  and  demonstrated  the  method  of  using  the  apparatus  which 
he  has  devised  for  this  purpose  (see  page  503). 
Professor  Kraemer  remarked  upon  the  scientific  principles  on 
which  the  instrument  was  based,  and  said  that  in  this  respect  it 
While  formerly  the  interest  in  them  was  more  or  less  local,  this  cannot  be 
said  to  be  strictly  true  at  the  present  time,  for  not  only  are  papers  received 
from  authors  in  other  parts  of  the  country,  but  not  infrequently  the  speakers 
come  from  quite  a  distance. 
There  is  no  attempt  made  to  conduct  these  meetings  along  special  lines, 
but  on  the  other  hand  the  aim  has  been  to  make  them  of  general  pharmaceutic 
interest,  and  any  one  who'is  desirous  of  advancing  the  status  of  pharmacy  in 
any  one  of  its  several  branches,  whether  as  teacher,  research  worker,  retailer 
or  manufacturer,  is  invited  to  participate  in  them  by  the  presentation  of  papers  ; 
the  exhibition  of  new  and  useful  forms  of  apparatus  ;  the  exhibition  of  speci- 
mens of  new  and  rare  chemicals,  pharmaceutic  products,  medicinal  plant  or 
drug  specimens,  food  products,  etc.,  or  by  the  introduction  of  special  topics  for 
discussion. 
The  opening  meeting  of  the  series  for  1 903-1 904  will  be  on  Tuesday,  October 
20th,  at  3  o'clock.  You  are  cordially  invited  to  be  present,  not  ou\y  at  this 
meeting,  but  at  succeeding  meetings  as  well. 
Wm.  Iv.  Cuffe,  Chairman. 
ClvFMENT  B.  L,OWE. 
Joseph  P.  Remington. 
Richard  V.  Mattison. 
Henry  Kraemer,  Secretary. 
Committee. 
