Am.  Jour.  Pnarm. 
May,  1898. 
Notes  and  News. 
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President,  James  C.  Perry,  Class  of  '91  ;  First  Vice-President,  F.  Wm.  E. 
Stedem,  '82 ;  Second  Vice-president,  Theodore  Campbell,  '93 ;  Treasurer, 
William  L.  Cliffe,  '84  ;  Secretary,  William  E.  Krewson,  '69  ;  Corresponding 
Secretary,  Cornelius  E.  Spencely,  '78  ;  Board  of  Directors  for  three  years  : 
Joseph  W.  England,  '83  ;  H.  L.  Stiles,  '85  ;  George  Y.  Wood,  '94;  William  G. 
Nebig,  '86  ;  for  two  years,  Dr.  J.  Louis  D.  Morison,  '88  ;  Prof.  Henry  Trimble, 
'76  ;  William  N.  Stem,  '73  ;  David  H.  Ross,  '78  ;  for  one  year,  Wallace  Procter, 
'72  ;  C.  Carroll  Meyer,  '73  ;  William  A.  Bullock,  '86  ;  John  H.  Hahn,  '81. 
The  thirty-fourth  Annual  Reception  of  the  Association,  to  the  seventy- 
seventh  graduating  class,  was  tendered  on  the  evening  of  the  same  day,  in  the 
College  Museum. 
After  music  by  Bastert's  Orchestra,  introductory  remarks  were  made  by  the 
President  of  the  Alumni  Association,  Henry  L.  Stiles,  '85. 
Secretary  William  E.  Krewson  called  the  roll  of  those  who  had  been  elected 
to  membership  during  the  fiscal  year  1897-98. 
The  Alumni  Gold  Medal  to  the  member  of  the  graduating  class  receiving  the 
highest  general  average  was  awarded  to  Joseph  Huntington,  and  was  presented 
by  Joseph  W.  England. 
The  prize  certificates  to  the  members  of  the  graduating  class  receiving  the 
highest  averages  were  awarded  as  follows  :  Pharmacy,  Joseph  Huntington, 
Philadelphia,  by  Frank  G.  Ryan  ;  Chemistry,  George  Augustus  Shwab,  Nash- 
ville, Tenn.,  by  Frank  K.  Moerk  ;  Materia  Medica,  Andrew  Connell  Parse, 
Flemington,  N.  J.,  by  Dr.  C.  B.  Lowe  ;  General  Pharmacy  (Committee),  Frank 
William  Morgan,  New  Orleans,  La.,  by  Wallace  Procter;  Operative  Phar- 
macy, Theodore  Storb  Schlauch,  New  Holland,  Pa.,  by  Theodore  Campbell  ; 
Analytical  Chemistry,  Gilbert  Kent  Preston,  Philadelphia,  by  Josiah  C. 
Peacock  ;  Pharmacognosy  (Specimens),  James  David  King,  Easton,  Pa.,  by 
Dr.  J.  Louis  Morison. 
The  prize  testimonial  to  the  first  course  student  passing  the  best  examinations 
was  awarded  to  Harry  Lionel  Meredith,  of  Hagerstown,  Md.,  by  James  C.  Perry. 
The  prize  testimonial  to  the  second  course  student  passing  the  best  examina- 
tion was  awarded  to  Edward  Bancroft  Rogers,  of  Mount  Holly,  N.  J.,  by  F. 
Wm.  E.  Stedem. 
The  class  oration  was  delivered  by  Clarence  O.  Suavely  ;  the  history  by  A. 
Gustav  Luebert  ;  the  poem  by  Frederick  R.  Farrow,  and  the  prophecy  by 
David  Dale. 
NOTES  AND  NEWS. 
An  explosion  in  a  Drug  Store  in  New  York,  which  occurred  on  April  6th, 
was  of  extraordinary  character  and  great  violence.  This  was  the  result  of  the 
compounding  of  a  prescription  of  potassium  chlorate  and  sodium  salicylate.  As 
a  result  of  mixing  the  ingredients  in  a  mortar  the  shop  was  badly  wrecked — the 
damage  being  estimated  at  $1,500.  The  clerk  who  was  doing  the  mixing  was 
seriously  injured. 
The  Mucilage  Cells  of  Opuntiaha.ve  been  made  the  subject  of  a  recent  study 
byLongo1,  who  states  that  they  occur  distributed  through  the  fundamental 
parenchyma  of  all  members  of  the  plant,  that  their  mucilage  does  not  result 
from  a  transformation  of  the  cell  wall,  but  is  a  direct  product  of  their  proto- 
1Annuario  del  R.  1st.  Bot.  di  Roma,  7,  pp.  44-57,  pi.  2. 
