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Mr.  French  alluded  to  the  death  of  Hon.  Robert  Adams,  who  was 
the  speaker  on  the  occasion  of  the  last  Commencement,  and  sug- 
gested that  a  note  of  his  death  be  made  on  the  minutes. 
The  Secretary  was  instructed  to  send  a  letter  of  thanks  to  Rev. 
David  M.  Steele  and  Rev.  Dr.  Edwin  H.  Delk  for  their  services 
during  commencement  exercises. 
Professor  Remington  referred  to  the  Baccalaureate  services  as 
being  a  great  feature  of  our  Commencement  and  hoped  for  a  con- 
tinuance of  these  interesting  occasions.  Mr.  Rumsey  expressed 
much  pleasure  to  know  that  members  of  the  Alumni  Association 
had  taken  an  interest  in  the  Commencement  by  being  present  on  the 
stage.  He  favored  issuing  a  card  giving  the  events  of  Commence- 
ment week,  and  moved  that  a  committee  be  appointed  to  do  this. 
This  met  with  approval  and  it  was  ordered  that  such  a  committee 
be  appointed,  Mr.  Rumsey  to  act  as  chairman  and  to  select  his 
associates. 
An  appropriation  of  two  hundred  dollars  was  made  to  the  Alumni 
Association. 
Mr.  French  referred  to  the  scholarship  offered  to  graduates  of  the 
Philadelphia  Public  Schools,  and  suggested  a  notice  be  sent  to  the 
Superintendent  of  Public  Schools  regarding  the  several  scholarships 
offered. 
Four  names  were  proposed  for  active  membership,  to  be  acted 
on  at  the  next  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
J.  S.  Beetem, 
Sec.  pro  tern. 
REPORT  OF  THE  COMMITTEE  ON  NECROLOGY. 
During  the  past  year  the  college  has  lost  by  death  eight  members, 
one  of  these  being  a  corresponding  member. 
Dr.  Carl  Schacht,  who  died  in  Berlin  on  November  6,  1905,  was 
a  corresponding  member  of  the  college  for  a  number  of  years.  He 
was  one  of  the  founders  and  the  first  president  of  the  German  Phar- 
maceutical Society  and  was  well  known  for  his  work  in  connection 
with  the  revision  of  the  German  Pharmacopoeia.  He  was  a  native 
of  Berlin,  having  been  born  in  that  city  in  1836.  He  was  educated 
at  various  German  universities  and  took  his  doctor's  degree  at  the 
University  ot  Berlin  in  1862,  the  subject  of  his  thesis  being  "  Oleum 
Macedis."    On  the  retirement  of  his  father,  in  1864,  he  became  the 
