^uglwx*'}        Pharmaceutical  Colleges,  etc.  379 
Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy. — At  the  stated  meeting",  held  on  the  10th 
of  July,  the  semi-annual  election  of  officers  resulted  in  the  election  of  John  F. 
Hancock  President,  and  the  re-election  of  Edwin  Eareckson  Secretary,  J. 
Brown  Baxley  Treasurer,  and  Louis  Dohme  one  of  the  Examiners, 
The  following  gentlemen  were  elected  delegates  to  represent  the  College  at 
the  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  to  meet  at  Rich- 
mond, in  September.  L.  Dohme,  N.  Hynson  Jennings,  J.  Harry  Hancock, 
Wm.  Silver  Thompson,  and  J.  F.  Hancock;  alternates  F,  Hassencamp,  A.  P. 
Sharp,  Wm.  H.  Osbourn,  J.  Newport  Potts  and  A.  N.  Marion. 
Messrs.  J.  Faris  M  oore,  Louis  Dohme,  Wm.  Silver  Thompson,  Joseph  Rob- 
erts and  A.  P.  Sharp  were  elected  delegates  to  the  Conference  of  Colleges,  to 
be  held  at  the  same  time  and  place. 
The  Louisville  College  of  Pharmacy  has  changed  the  requirements  for 
graduation  so  that  applicants  for  the  diploma  of  this  College  must  have  served 
an  apprenticeship  of  four  years  in  a  prescription  store,  or  of  not  less  than  two 
years  in  a  prescription  store,  and  of  two  years  to  the  wholesale  drug  business. 
The  recent  action  of  the  Louisville  and  of  the  Philadelphia  Colleges  har- 
monizes to  a  greater  extent  than  was  the  case  heretofore,  the  qualification  of 
experience,  as  required  by  the  teaching  Colleges  of  Pharmacy,  that  of  New- 
York  having  made  a  similar  change  some  months  since. 
Chicago  College  of  Pharmacy. — At  the  meeting  held  June  11th  the  fol- 
lowing members  were  elected  delegates  to  the  next  annual  meeting  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association  and  to  the  Convention  of  the  Teaching 
Colleges  of  Pharmacy:  Thomas  N.  Jamieson,  Albert  E.  Ebert,  George  Buck, 
E.  H.  Sargent  and  Theo.  H.  Patterson. 
The  Board  of  Trustees  was  empowered  to  co-operate  with  any  movement 
that  may  be  made  for  holding  a  Convention  of  Pharmacists  of  the  Northwest 
during  the  October  exposition  in  Chicago. 
After  the  consideration  and  adoption  of  some  changes  in  the  By-Laws,  Mr. 
E.  H.  Sargent,  in  behalf  of  the  Committee  on  the  Attfield  Testimonial,  pre- 
sented to  the  College  an  oil  painting  of  Professor  J.  Attfield.  who,  the  chair- 
man said,  "  stands  to  us  as  the  representative  of  that  noble  band  of  English 
pharmacists  who  so  generously  and  promptly  came  to  our  aid  in  the  time  of 
our  great  adversity."  The  portrait  was  received  by  the  President  of  the  Col- 
lege, Mr.  Thos.  Whitfield,  and  then  directed  to  be  placed  on  exhibition,  with  a 
suitable  inscription,  in  the  Chicago  Art  Gallery; 
St  Clair  Pharmaceutical  Association  of  Southern  Illinois. — We  ac- 
knowledge the  receipt  of  a  copy  of  the  Statutes  of  this  Association,  which 
was  organized  April  23d  last,  and  incorporated  May  20th.  The  following  is 
stated  to  be  the  object  of  the  Association  : 
The  object  of  this  Association  shall  be  to  unite  all  Practical  Pharmaceutists 
of  Southern  Illinois  for  the  purpose  of  promoting  the  interest,  the  develop- 
ment, the  welfare  and  progress  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Science  and  Art,  and 
also  of  improving,  elevating  and  protecting  our  professional  standing  in  public 
