284 
MINUTES  OF  THE  COLLEGE. 
The  rate  of  taxation  on  proprietary  and  secret  medicines  has  been  re- 
duced as  follows : — On  articles  retailing  at  25  cents  or  under,  1  cent  ; 
exceeding  25,  and  not  exceeding  50  cents,  2  cents  ;  exceeding  50  cents 
and  not  exceeding  75  cents,  3  cents  ;  exceeding  75  and  not  exceeding 
$1.00,  4  cents  ;  and  in  like  proportion  for  those  retailing  for  more  than 
one  dollar.  The  rates  for  perfumery,  cosmetics,  hair  preparations,  &c, 
are  the  same.  The  stamps  to  be  affixed  by  the  manufacturer,  and  to  be 
cancelled  by  the  retailer  at  the  time  of  selling,  under  heavy  penalties. 
Section  101  has  been  adopted  nearly  as  proposed  by,  us,  the  last  two 
lines  (enclosed  in  brackets  on  page  282)  having  been  omitted. 
The  clause  affixing  an  additional  duty  on  spirits  mixed  or  rectified  for 
sale  as  drinks,  has  been  modified  by  omitting  the  word  re-distilled,  as  sug- 
gested in  the  report,  so  that  alcohol  for  use  in  the  arts,  or  in  Pharmacy, 
escapes  any  further  duty  than  the  original  fifteen  cents  a  gallon  for  proof 
affixed,  equally  on  all  forms  of  distilled  spirit.  The  rates  have  been  in- 
creased on  all  sold  as  brandy,  rum,  gin,  or  wine,  to  thirty  cents  a  gallon 
on  the  basis  of  first  proof,  and  so  in  proportion  for  any  greater  strength. 
The  exception  asked  by  the  Committee,  in  favor  of  stills  used  for  the  re- 
covery of  alcohol,  as  mentioned  in  the  report,  though  not  inserted  in  the 
bill  in  the  House,  has,  we  believe,  been  recommended  to  the  Senate  Com- 
mittee, who  now  have  the  whole  subject  under  consideration.       E.  P. 
REPORT  ON  THE  CABINET  OF  THE  COLLEGE. 
To  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
The  undersigned,  a  Committee  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  on  the  Cabi- 
nets of  the  College,  are  aware  that  in  their  official  capacity  they  have  no 
direct  relation  with  the  College  in  its  annual  meeting,  yet  as  members 
feeling  an  interest  in  this  hitherto  much  neglected  branch  of  our  opera- 
tions, they  take  the  liberty  to  offer  the  following  statement  for  the  infor- 
mation of  the  members  generally,  hoping  through  its  means  to  elicit  more 
interest  towards  the  now  respectable  collection  of  specimens  which 
form  the  nucleus  of  our  Pharmaceutical  museum.  In  1851,  an  appropri- 
ation was  made  for  the  commencement  of  a  cabinet  of  materia  medica 
specimens,  so  far  as  to  provide  cases  and  glassware.  By  contributions 
from  the  members,  the  bottles  were  filled  with  specimens,  and  the  collec- 
tion was  greatly  increased  in  1852,  by  a  valuable  contribution  of  East 
Indian  drugs,  by  Dr.  Royle,  from  those  in  possession  of  the  East  India 
Company,  after  the  great  Exhibition  at  London  in  1851.  In  the  spring  of 
185  ,  this  collection  was  much  injured,  and  most  of  the  India  specimens 
destroyed  by  a  fire  which  occurred  at  that  time,  and  since  then  little  has 
been  done  to  restore  it,  until  the  past  winter.  The  College,  by  a  previous 
appropriation  of  sixty  dollars  supplied  several  cases  with  glassware,  and 
chiefly  through  the  personal  exertions  of  Professor  Thomas,  a  large  number 
