Am*>/a°y ri9i5arm' }     Abstract  of  President's  Address.  239 
Your  President  desires  to  bring  to  your  attention  the  increased 
number  of  students  doing  special  work  in  the  Laboratory.  Last 
year  there  were  13  first-year  students,  this  year  27  first-year  students  ; 
last  year  there  were  28  second-year  students,  this  year  51  second-year 
students,  and  35  third-year  students  last  year  and  25  this  year,  making 
a  total  increase  of  27  students  this  year  doing  special  chemical  work. 
The  requiring  of  recording  the  attendance  of  students  has  been 
continued  during  the  present  session  and  shows  a  satisfactory  im- 
provement upon  the  part  of  the  students. 
AYork  in  the  Chemical  Department  has  been  conducted  in  a  most 
satisfactory  manner.  Your  professor  of  chemistry  has  had  delivered 
to  the  students  several  very  completely  illustrated  lectures  on  chem- 
ical industries,  in  which  both  materials  of  the  industry  and  the  actual 
working  steps  were  interestingly  presented  by  the  aid  of  moving-pic- 
ture reels,  thus  making  it  possible  for  the  class  to  understand  the  prog- 
ress of  manufacture  and  the  working  out  of  details  from  the  crude 
to  the  finished  product :  in  other  words,  giving  them  what  might  be 
termed  a  practical  illustration  of  commercial  production.  It  is  of 
interest  to  know  that  two  more  illustrated  lectures  will  be  delivered 
before  the  close  of  the  session. 
Your  Department  of  Pharmacy  reports  a  marked  improvement  in 
the  attention  of  students,  and  that  the  average  scholarship  is  higher 
and  better  than  that  of  the  two  previous  years. 
Extra  lectures  on  pharmaceutical  subjects  have  been  delivered 
and  have  proved  of  great  value  to  the  large  number  of  students  at- 
tending. 
In  operative  pharmacy  there  has  been  a  marked  increase  in  the 
number  of  hours  devoted  to  instruction,  and  a  close  system  was  fol- 
lowed for  checking  the  work  done  by  the  students.  Special  atten- 
tion has  been  given  to  instructing  the  student  as  to  the  desirability 
of  profitably  manufacturing  preparations  under  his  own  brand,  so 
as  to  establish  a  reputation  among  his  customers  and  well-merited 
commendation  from  the  practising  physicians,  as  well  as  increasing 
his  financial  success. 
The  course  of  commercial  training  has  been  successfully  pros- 
ecuted during  the  past  year,  and  many  additions  have  been  made, 
thus  improving  the  department.  It  is  now  expected  that  during  the 
coming  session  of  the  College  this  course  will  be  increased  so  as  to 
include  instructionjn  salesmanship. 
The  Department  of  Botany  and  Pharmacognosy  has  been  most 
