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should  be  provided.  During  the  past  year  two  new  branches  were  added  to 
the  first  year  curriculum,  Algebra  and  Pharmaceutical  Latin,  both  compulsory. 
The  third  year  Supplementary  Course  has  proven  very  valuable  to  the  students 
and  greatly  increases  the  efficiency  of  the  class. 
Eleven  students  have  taken  the  special  course  in  Bacteriology.  Three  students 
have  taken  a  special  course  in  Technical  Microscopy.  Seven  students  have 
taken  special  instruction  in  the  Pharmaceutical  Laboratory. 
Thirty-one  third  year  students,  of  whom  fifteen  are  doing  special  thesis  work, 
twenty-three  second  year  students  and  one  first  year  student  are  taking  special 
instruction  in  the  Chemical  Laboratory. 
Four  of  the  students  have  died  during  the  year.  Eight  members  of  the  Col- 
lege have  died  during  the  year  :  Henry  N.  Rittenhouse,  Henry  Cramer,  John 
Bley,  Allen  Shryock,  Robert  C.  Brodie,  Edward  T.  Dobbins,  Joseph  P.  Bolton, 
M.D.,  Louis  Koch. 
Two  members  have  resigned. 
Three  members  were  elected  :  Ambrose  Hunsberger,  Clarence  L.  Bonta  and 
John  J.  Finney. 
While  the  College  has  had  no  official  notification,  the  newspapers  report  that 
the  will  of  our  late  member,  Edward  T.  Dobbins,  provides  a  scholarship  in  the 
College. 
Your  College  has  continued  to  hold  its  foremost  rank  among  educational 
institutions  devoted  to  pharmaceutical  learning.  Its  present  standard  of 
admission  is  sixteen  Regent's  counts,  which  make  our  graduates  eligible  for 
examination  by  any  of  the  State  Pharmacy  Boards. 
Examinations  for  admission  are  to  be  conducted  by  the  State  Department 
of  Education.  The  examination  of  applicants  has  been  placed  in  the  hands  of 
Dr.  Edgar  A.  Singer,  Associate  Superintendent  of  Public  Schools,  City  Hall, 
Philadelphia. 
Your  President  again  desires  to  commend  your  Alumni  Association  for  its 
continued  activity. 
The  Committee  on  Nominations  reported  nominees  for  officers, 
trustees  and  committees  to  be  voted  for  at  this  meeting. 
Prof.  Sadtler,  Chairman  of  the  Publication  Committee,  reported 
as  follows : — 
The  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy  has  been  issued  regularly  during 
the  past  year  and  the  financial  statement  presented  is  gratifying  to  the  Com- 
mittee. The  number  of  subscribers  is  being  maintained,  and  special  efforts  are 
being  made  at  present  to  materially  increase  the  number  of  subscribers.  The 
best  firms  in  the  country  are  represented  in  the  advertising  columns.  This  is  a 
time  when  it  is  peculiarly  fitting  to  point  to  the  class  of  advertising  carried  by 
the  Journal  as  journals  are  being  brought  to  account  and  being  judged  by 
the  character  of  their  advertising  matter.  There  is  probably  not  a  journal  or 
magazine  in  the  country  that  has  so  consistently  and  for  so  long  maintained 
the  integrity  of  its  advertising  columns.  Donations  of  the  Journal  and  other 
publications  were  received  from  our  fellow  members  Harry  L.  Stiles  and  Jacob 
S.  Beetem. 
