248  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.     { Am 'jg* •1gfm- 
Dr.  Henry  Beates,  Jr.,  the  president  of  the  Pennsylvania  State 
Board  of  Medical  Examiners,  after  congratulating  the  members 
present  on  the  honor  of  having  inaugurated  this  important  step 
toward  advancing  the  science  of  pharmacy,  assured  his  hearers  that 
with  the  improvements  that  are  now  being  made,  in  the  training 
given  to  future  medical  men,  the  coming  medical  practitioner  will 
be  more  appreciative  of  true  worth  in  the  practice  of  pharmacy  and 
that  the  time  is  not  far  distant  when  the  conditions  will  warrant 
higher  and  better  compensation  for  really  capable  pharmacists. 
The  meeting  did  not  adjourn  until  a  late  hour  and  every  one 
present  appeared  to  feel  that  he  had  taken  part  in  a  meeting  that 
would  serve  to  mark  the  inauguration  of  a  new  era  in  the  progress 
of  pharmacy. 
The  second  stated  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  Branch  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association  was  held  on  the  evening  of 
Tuesday,  April  24th,  in  the  hall  of  the  College  of  Physicians,  the 
subject  for  discussion  being  "  The  Immediate  Object  and  the  Aims  ot 
the  Philadelphia  Branch  of  American  Pharmaceutical  Association." 
M.  I.  Wilbert,  Secretary. 
PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY.  ' 
MINUTES  OF  THE  ANNUAL  MEETING. 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  members  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy  was  held  March  26,  1906,  in  the  Library,  at  4  o'clock, 
the  President,  Howard  B.  French,  presiding. 
Twenty  members  were  present. 
The  minutes  of  the  quarterly  meeting  held  December  26,  1905, 
were  read  and  approved. 
The  minutes  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  December  5,  1905, 
January  2,  February  6  and  19,  1906,  were  read  by  the  Registrar, 
J.  S.  Beetem,  and  approved. 
The  President  read  his  annual  report,  from  which  are  abstracted 
the  following  items : — 
The  repairs  made  to  the  buildings  during  the  year  1904  were  of  such  a  per- 
manent character  that  but  few  repairs  have  been  necessary  during  the  past  year, 
and  all  the  buildings  are  now  in  a  fairly  good  condition. 
The  Committee  on  Property  have  added  34  new  lockers — making  134  now 
in  use — and  it  is  desirable  that  during  the  coming  summer  additional  lockers 
