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other  members,  this  troublesome  but  responsible  work  was  accomplished, 
ready  for  the  cartmen,  and  before  the  30th  of  March,  the  day  of  the 
Annual  Meeting,  when  the  building  was  used  officially  for  the  last  time, 
nearly  two  hundred  boxes,  that  were  required  to  contain  all  that  was 
capable  of  being  packed,  were  sent  away.  Those  of  us  whose  memories 
stretched  back  to  the  inauguration  of  the  old  hall,  could  recall  the  feel- 
ings of  gratulation  which,  in  that  twelfth  year  of  the  Institution,  arose 
on  the  occasion  among  both  members  and  students.  Now,  like  an  out- 
grown garment,  it  is  abandoned  for.  newer  and  larger  accommodations, 
but  with  mingled  feelings  of  thankfulness  for  our  prosperity,  and  with 
regrets  for  the  necessity  of  leaving  the  old  hall  where  so  much  of  the 
history  of  pharmaceutical  progress  in  the  United  States  has  been  written 
and  acted. 
At  a  general  meeting  of  the  committee  of  Ways  and  Means,  held  at 
the  house  of  the  Treasurer,  D.  Parrish,  the  Building  Committee  exhibi- 
ted the  plans  and  elevations  of  the  proposed  College  Hall,  on  Tenth 
Street  above  Cherry  street,  after  discussing  which,  the  several  bids  for 
the  contract  for  its  erection  were  opened  and  read,  and  the  contract  was 
awarded  to  Henry  B.  Cook,  for  the  sum  of  $27,000,  requiring  him  to 
finish  and  deliver  the  building  by  about  the  20th  of  August.  The  general 
outline  of  the  building  is  rectangular,  47  feet  by  72  feet,  and  fifty  feet  in 
heighth,  divided  into  three  stories,  with  an  offset  in  the  north-west  corner 
to  accommodate  the  stairs.  A  division  wall  of  brick  divides  the  building 
unequally  about  one-fourth  of  its  length  from  the  western  end,  rising 
through  all  the  stories.  The  first  floor  will  include  a  room  for  the  Prac- 
tical Laboratory,  43  x  25,  a  general  meeting  room,  43  x  30,  and  a  room  for 
the  Trustees.  The  general  meeting  room  will  contain  the  museum  cases, 
and  trustees  room'  the  library  cases.  'The  second  and  third  stories  each 
contain  a  lecture  room  50  x  43,  capable  of  seating  350  students,  and 
along  side  of  each  lecture  room  a  committee  room  and  a  room  for  the 
Professors.  The  rise  of  the  seats  from  the  floor  will  be  about  8  feet, 
affording  beneath  them  two  long  narrow  rooms  on  the  north  side,  for  the 
storage  of  the  stock  of  Journals  in  the  2d  story,  and  the  Proceedings  of 
the  Association  in  the  third  story.  The  entrance  will  be  a  three-storied 
front,  17^  feet  wide  on  10th  street,  north  of  Cherry,  built  specially  for 
college  purposes  and  for  a  janitor's  residence.  It  is  the  intention  of  the 
college  to  have  a  janitor  of  sufficient  intelligence  to  look  after  the  various 
interests  of  the  Institution  concentrated  at  the  Hall,  so  that  members 
can  get  entrance  at  any  reasonable  time.  The  various  details  of  lighting, 
heating,  water  supply  and  drainage,  have  been  carefully  provided  for. 
The  building  material  is  to  be  brick,  the  general  style  of  the  structure 
plain  and  substantial,  and  the  roof  of  double  tin,  painted. 
Fire  at  Powers  &  Weightman's  Laboratory. — On  the  morning  of 
February  29th,  a  fire  broke  out  in  the  southern  end  of  this  establish- 
ment, which,  before  it  was  subdued,  destroyed  property  to  the- value  of 
