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of  these  have  been  filled,  with  valuable  specimens  from  his  own  cabinet. 
The  residue  of  specimens  obtained  for  the  collection  just  sent  to  Europe 
were  used,  and  others  were  the  gifts  of  various  members  of  the  College. 
Contributions  have  been  received  or  promised,  from  T.  M.  Perot  &  Co., 
Chas.  Ellis  &  Co.,  T.  P.  James,  Bullock  &  Crenshaw,  John  and  T.  Cramer, 
Edward  Parrish,  Dr.  Bridges,  and  W.  Procter,  Jr.  It  is  now  proposed, 
in  addition  to  the  materia  medica,  to  commence  a  collection  of  mate- 
ria chemica,  on  such  a  basis  as  will  enable  the  Committee,  should  their 
efforts  be  successful,  to  obtain  for  the  College  Cabinet  a  series  of  speci- 
mens that  will  add  greatly  to  its  value  as  a  museum.  The  promotion  of 
this  last  object  is  one  which  should  interest  the  graduates  of  the  College, 
and  it  is  suggested  to  this  now  extensive  body  of  pharmaceutists,  that 
they  keep  in  remembrance  the  museum  of  their  Alma  Mater,  as  from  time 
to  time  chemical  and  other  specimens  come  into  their  possession.  We 
would  also  invite  the  aid  of  our  manufacturing  chemists  for  this  object  by 
such  contributions  of  chemical  specimens  as  they  may  feel  disposed  to 
make. 
The  Committee  before  closing  would  suggest,  where  members  have  rare 
and  valuable  specimens,  which,  for  special  reasons,  they  decline  to  part 
with,  that  they  simply  deposit  them  in  the  museum  during  their  own  plea- 
sure, each  of  such  specimens  being  labelled,  to  indicate  its  temporary 
ownership  by  the  College,  with  the  name  of  the  depositor. 
W.  Procter  Jr., 
R.  Bridges, 
Ambrose  Smith. 
AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
NOTICE. 
The  adjourned  meeting  of  the  Association,  which  was  to  have  been  held 
last  year  at  St.  Louis,  and  postponed  in  consequence  of  the  disturbed  con- 
dition of  the  country,  will  be  held  at  the  City  of  Philadelphia,  on  Wednes- 
day the  27th  of  August  next,  at  3  o'clock,  P.  M. 
It  is  most  earnestly  recommended  to  all  the  members  to  keep  in  view 
the  important  interests  of  the  Association — to  the  several  Committees,  and 
especially  those  members  and  others  appointed  at  the  meeting  held  at  New 
York,  in  1860,  to  whom  was  referred  the  investigation  of  special  subjects, 
to  be  ready  to  make  their  reports  at  the  coming  session  of  the  Associa- 
tion. 
The  objects  of  the  Association  and  the  conditions  of  membership  are  ex- 
plained in  the  first  and  second  articles  of  the  Constitution  as  published  in 
the  Proceedings  of  1860,  and  in  the  several  Pharmaceutical  Journals. 
H.  T.  Kiersted,  President, 
New  York,  April  lltli,  1862. 
