^""kSch,' mi!'"'' }    Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  137 
sequence  in  which  the  alkaloids  are  found  in  the  growing  plant  is 
narcotine,  codeine,  morphine,  papaverine  and  thebaine.  The  first 
four  of  these  alkaloids  occurring  in  plants  that  are  from  5  to  7  cm. 
high. — Arch.  d.  Pharm.,  Berl,  1910,  v.  248,  pp.  536-567. 
The  Phosphorus  Match. — A  recent  editorial  in  the  Journal 
of  Industrial  and  Engineering  Chemistry  (January,  191 1,  p.  i)  con- 
tains some  rather  interesting  information  regarding  the  origin  and 
development  of  matches  and  the  dangers  attending  the  exposure  to 
fumes  of  phosphorus.  The  earliest  known  matches,  made  in  1812, 
were  tipped  with  potassium  chlorate  and  sugar  and  ignited  by  sul- 
phuric acid.  The  phosphorus  match  was  introduced  by  Derosne  in 
1816,  and  because  of  the  danger  attending  its  manufacture  has  been 
prohibited  in  nearly  every  European  country,  preference  being  given 
abroad  to  the  so-called  safety  matches  or  to  matches  tipped  with  a 
composition  containing  one  or  the  other  of  the  sulphides  of  phos- 
phorus. 
PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OE  PHARMACY.* 
By  Howard  B.  French,  President. 
Since  the  world  began  the  inspiration  of  association  has  stirred 
the  hearts  of  men,  enlightened  their  minds,  strengthened  their  hands 
and  ennobled  their  lives.  The  spirit  of  great  acts  lives  throughout 
the  years,  creating  and  forwarding  movements  which  bless  man- 
kind. 
When  the  climax  of  the  long  night  of  colonial  injustice  and 
oppression  had  been  reached,  and  the  representatives  of  a  suffer- 
ing people  came  together  in  1774,  to  consider  ways  and  means 
of  reHef,  they  wended  their  way  to  a  spot  already  historic,  where 
the  fires  of  liberty  had  been  lighted  and  where  the  voice  of  the 
coming  nation  of  freemen  had  been  heard,  demanding  just  recog- 
nition of  the  inalienable  rights  of  man.  As  though  directed  by 
the  finger  of  fate,  building  better  than  they  knew,  a  few  years 
before,  in  1771,  a  little  company  of  men,  drawn  from  the  humbler 
walks  of  life,  in  the  City  of  Penn,  honest  and  faithful  toilers, 
*An  address  covering  some  of  the  interesting  facts  in  the  history  of  the 
College  and  delivered  at  a  banquet  given  by  the  president  at  the  Union 
League  Club,  Philadelphia,  in  commemoration  of  the  ninetieth  anniversary 
of  the  College,  February  23,  191 1. 
