388  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  {^^"1915™' 
animations,  W.  L.  Cliff  e,  chairman ;  Committee  on  Theses,  Joseph  W. 
England,  chairman;  Committee  on  Discipline,  Howard  B.  French, 
chairman ;  Committee  on  Announcement,  Joseph  W.  England,  chair- 
man; Committee  on  Commencement,  W.  A.  Rumsey,  chairman; 
Committee  on  Alumni,  Joseph  W.  England,  chairman. 
The  Committee  on  Instruction  submitted  the  annual  reports  from 
the  teaching  departments  of  the  College  for  the  consideration  of  the 
Board. 
Department  of  Pharmacy  reports  that  the  extra  lectures  on 
pharmaceutical  subjects  have  been  of  great  interest.  The  Department 
requests  a  projecting  lantern  for  use  in  lectures.  The  work  in  this 
department,  as  well  as  in  the  other  departments  of  the  College, 
requires  the  use  of  large  quantities  of  distilled  water,  and  a  larger 
apparatus  is  a  necessity.  The  committee  recommended  that  a  larger 
apparatus  be  installed.  The  matter  was  referred  to  the  Committee 
on  Property. 
Department  of  Chemistry. — Professor  Sadtler  has  submitted  an 
outline  of  a  plan  for  the  didactic  instruction  in  chemistry,  which 
he  would  recommend  for  the  second-year  course  for  the  Ph.G. 
degree  and  for  the  third  year  or  post-graduate  year.  In  the  latter 
year  it  is  proposed  to  give  a  series  of  thirty  or  more  lectures  devoted 
to  manufacturing  and  industrial  chemistry,  and  fifteen  lectures 
covering  food  adulteration  and  examination. 
Department  of  Botany  and  Pharmacognosy. — Professor  Kraemer 
suggests  improvements  in  desks  and  illumination  when  new  labora- 
tories become  available.  He  further  points  out  the  limitations  of  the 
greenhouse  and  the  roof  garden  as  a  source  of  study  of  the  medicinal 
plants,  and  the  need  of  the  College  having  a  piece  of  ground  where 
medicinal  plants  may  be  grown  and  more  thorough  experimental 
work  and  study  given.  He  recommends  the  reappointment  of  Philip 
Fackenthall  as  instructor  in  pharmacognosy,  and  Anton  Hogstad,  Jr., 
as  instructor  in  botany,  and  William  Alexander  Wallace  as  student 
assistant  in  the  work  of  the  first  year. 
Department  of  Materia  Medica. — Professor  Lowe  reports  that 
the  work  of  the  department  has  not  differed  from  that  of  recent  years. 
The  report  of  Professor  Lowe,  as  also  that  of  Professor  Roddy, 
refers  to  the  Department  of  Physical  Culture. 
Department  of  Analytical  Chemistry. — Professor  Frank  X. 
Moerk  reports  that  the  changes  in  the  curriculum  whereby  it  is  pos- 
sible to  give  the  first-year  class  some  elementary  chemical  laboratory 
