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Notwithstanding1  the  rainy  and  stormy  night,  the  new  lecture-hall  of  the  Col- 
lege was  comfortably  filled  by  members  and  their  friends,  to  hear  the  very  inter- 
esting lecture  of  Prof.  C.  F.  Chandler,  Ph.  D  ,  on  Modern  Chemistry.  The 
lecture  was  listened  to  with  great  attention,  and  was  delivered  in  a  clear  and 
instructive  manner. 
The  Alumni  Association  of  the  College  of  Pharmacy  of  the  City  of  New 
York  held  its  annual  meeting  on  Thursday  evening,  April  3d,  when  twenty- 
five  new  members  were  elected. 
President  Robbing  read  his  annual  address.  Papers  were  read  by  iMr.  Jules 
L.  A.  Creuse  on  "A  New  Series  of  Tasteless  Iron  Combinations,"  and  by  Mr. 
B.  F.  Mclntyre  on  "The  Fluid  Extract  of  Ipecac  of  the  New  Pharmacopoeia." 
Both  papers  are  published  in  the  present  number  of  this  Journal. 
The  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  ensuing  year:  President — D.  C. 
Robbins  ;  Yice  Presidents — G.  C.  Close,  0.  C.  Weinmann,  Hampden  Osborne  ; 
Treasurer — Theobald  Frohwein  ;  Secretary — J.  F.  Main;  Executive  Board — 
B.  F.  Mclntyre,  G.  W.  C.  Phillips,  J.  Vanderbeugle,  J.  L.  A.  Creuse,  L.  M. 
Rice,  P.  W.  Bedford  ;  Delegates  to  the  Meeting  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation— L.  M.  Rice,  H.  C.  Porter,  Ed.  Henes,  P.  W.  Bedford,  H.  Osborne. 
Several  amendments  to  the  Constitution  were  proposed  and  referred  to  the 
next  annual  meeting.  It  was  resolved  to  hold  quarterly  meetings  for  the  pur- 
pose of  friendly  intercourse  and  exchange  of  ideas  on  pharmacy,  the  meetings 
to  be  held  on  the  same  evenings  as  those  of  the  Executive  Board,  and  a  Com- 
mittee of  three  was  appointed  to  secure  papers  to  be  read  at  these  meetings. 
The  Association  then  adjourned. 
The  Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy  held  a  stated  meeting  April  10th, 
the  President,  J.  F.  Moore,  in  the  chair. 
The  minutes  of  the  last  annual  meeting  were  read  and  approved.  A  resolu- 
tion of  thanks  to  Prof.  I.  J.  Grahame,  for  his  excellent  and  very  edifying 
Annual  Address,  was  adopted,  and  the  Secretary  was  instructed  to  have  the 
address  published  in  pamphlet  form. 
The  following  gentlemen  have  been  elected  Professors  for  the  ensuing  year, 
viz.:  Dr.  J.  F.  Moore,  Professor  of  Pharmacy;  Dr.  Claude  Baxley,  Professor 
of  Botany  and  Materia  Medica,  and  Dr.  Wm.  Simon,  Professor  of  Chemistry 
and  of  Analytical  Chemistry. 
Letters  were  received  from  the  two  gentlemen  upon  whom  the  degree  of  Doc- 
tor of  Pharmacy  had  been  conferred,  acknowledging  the  honors. 
Three  special  committees  reported  progress  and  were  continued. 
Mr.  John  P.  Pignett  presented  an  interesting  essayon  "Tincture  of  Chloride 
of  Iron,"  detailing  a  process  by  which  it  can  be  made  in  less  than  twenty-four 
hours. 
The  St.  Louis  College  of  Pharmacy. —  After  the  lectures  had  been  sus- 
pended for  several  years,  on  account  of  the  departure  of  some  of  the  professors 
from  St.  Louis,  this  College  became  reorganized  in  the  Fall  of  1871,  and  com- 
menced its  lectures,  during  the  latter  part  of  October,  with  about  one  dozen 
students.    The  number  had  increased  during  the  last  season  to  23,  of  whom 
