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Pharmaceutical  Colleges,  etc. 
f  AM.  JOlIR.  I'HAHM. 
1     Mar.  1, 1873. 
ffearmamttital  CoIUgts  ani  ^satiations. 
Commencements. — We  have  been  informed  that  the  commencement  of  the  New 
York  College  of  Pharmacy  will  take  place  at  Association  Hall,  on  Monday 
evening,  March  31st ;  that  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  on  Tues- 
day evening,  March  18th,  at  the  American  Academy  of  Music  ;  and  that  of  the 
Maryland  College  of  Fharmacy  on  Thursday  afternoon,  March  11th.  The  vale- 
dictory address  will  be  delivered  in  Philadelphia  by  Professor  Dr.  R.  Bridges. 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. — The  following  gentlemen  have  been 
elected  to  serve  as  Examining  Committee  :  Prof.  William  Procter,  Jr.,  W.  J. 
Jenks,  W.  B.  Webb,  Jos.  R.  Remington  and  William  Mclntyre. 
The  arrangements  for  the  commencement  have  been  entrusted  to  a  commit- 
tee, consisting  of  Messrs.  W.  C.  Bakes,  J.  T.  Shinn  and  A.  B.  Taylor;  by  re- 
ferring to  the  notice  found  on  the  inside  page  of  the  cover,  it  will  be  observed 
that  members  of  the  College,  owing  to  the  large  graduating  class,  have  been  lim- 
ited to  two  reserved  seats,  tickets  for  which  must  be  called  for  before  March  12. 
During  the  session  just  closed,  the  following  matriculants  in  the  College  have 
availed  themselves  of  the  instruction  in  the  laboratory  : 
8.  D.  Addis,  Pa.  Frank  Uarper,  Ind.  F.  Radefeld,  Pa. 
Edmund  Backhaus,  0.  W.  L.  Harrison,  Ya.  G.  M.  Russell,  Pa. 
E.  C.  Batchelor,  Miss.  Herman  Haupt,  Pa.  Henry  Schmidt,  0. 
Jacob  Baur,  Ind.  G.  S.  Henry,  Pa.  Chas.  Schnabel,  N.Y. 
N.  J.  Bayard,  Ga.  T.  C.  Hilton,  Pa.  A.  E.  Smith,  Ya. 
J.  A.  Bowers,  Ind.  W.  H.  Hubbard,  HI.         C.  P.  Smith,  Pa. 
Chas.  S.  Brown,  Miss.       W.  N.  Janvier,  O.  O.  L.  Smith,  Ga. 
J.  N.  Coffee,  Ky.  J.  M,  Jones,  Pa.  S.  B.  Spence,  Wis. 
A.  Conrath,  Wis.  W.  Keir,  M.  P.,  Prince    T.  A.  Stevens, 
E.  S.  Dawson,  N.Y.  Edward's  Isl.  A.  F.  Stifel,  W.  Va. 
H.  T.  Eberle,  Wis.  F.  J.  Koch,  la.  W.  W.  Swearingen,  111. 
J.  H.  Flint,  Cal.  S.  C.  Lee,  Pa.  I.  P.  Yan  Cise,  la. 
A.  S.  French,  N.Y.  R.  Y.  Mattison,  Pa.  W.  G.  White,  Ky. 
W.  C.  Gill,  Pa.  J.  0.  McPherson,  Ga.       F.  P.  Yergiu.O. 
A.  G.  Griggs,  III.  St.  Neppach,  Wis. 
E.  Z.  Gross,  Pa.  Chr.  Petzelt,  Pa. 
Since  December  last,  Prof.  J.  Reese,  M.  D.,  of  the  University  of  Pennsylva- 
nia, at  the  invitation  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  delivered  a  course  of  lectures  on 
"Toxicology,"  to  such  students  of  this  College,  and  others  who  chose  to  avail 
themselves  of  this  opportunity  of  acquiring  a  knowledge  of  the  action  of  poisons, 
the  post-mortem  appearance  of  the  body,  and  the  detection  of  the  poisonous 
articles.  The  lectures,  which  were  well  illustrated,  were  attended  by  a  class 
numbering  about  fifty. 
New  York  College  of  Pharmacy. — At  a  conversational  meeting  held  Feb- 
ruary 13th,  Dr.  E.  R.  Squibb  delivered  a  lecture  on  "The  New  United  States 
Pharmacopoeia." 
