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who  were  associated  with  us  in  the  early  organization  of  the  College.  Many 
who  were  my  personal  friends  are  no  more.  Death  has,  indeed,  thinned  our 
ranks,  and  left  but  few  to  join  in  this  our  fiftieth  anniversary,  and  the  few  who 
remain  must  ere  long  follow  those  who  have  preceded  them  to  'that  bourne 
whence  no  traveller  returns.'  But,  gentlemen,  I  will  not  detain  you  by  giving 
expression  to  my  own  feelings,  but  will  proceed  by  carrying  out  the  programme 
which  has  been  arranged  for  the  celebration  of  our  semi  centennial  anniversary." 
The  President  then  requested  the  Secretary  of  the  College,  Charles  Bullock, 
to  read  the  minutes  of  the  first  meeting  of  the  originators  of  the  College  of 
Apothecaries,  held  at  Carpenter's  Hall,  February  23d,  1821.  This  was  then 
carried  out,  and  many  interesting  points  relative  to  the  institution  of  the  Col- 
lege were  brought  forward  illustrating  the  circumstances  of  its  origin. 
In  the  absence  of  one  of  the  most  faithful  historians  of  the  College,  Samuel 
F.  Troth,  James  T.  Shinn  was  called  upon  to  read  from  a  memoir,  prepared  by 
that  gentleman,  historical  notices  of  the  officers,  professors  and  transactions  of 
the  College,  in  giving  a  fair  account  of  that  group  of  earnest  men  whose  public 
spirit  and  liberality  had  fostered  the  early  growth  and  development  of  the  in- 
stitution— such  as  Charles  Marshall,  Peter  Lehman,  Henry  Troth,  Daniel  B. 
Smitli,  Dr.  Samuel  Jackson,  Peter  Williamson,  Samuel  Biddle,  Frederick 
Brown,  Charles  Allen,  Samuel  P.  Wetherill,  Charles  Yarnall,  Stephen  North, 
Algernon  S.  Roberts,  Warder  Morris,  Edward  B.  Garrignes  and  many  others. 
Five  years  elapsed  before  a  diploma  was  granted;  the  lectures  were  deliv- 
ered in  the  old  Hall  of  the  German  Society,  now  the  gas- office  of  the  city, 
Seventh,  below  Market.  The  names  of  the  professors  in  the  School  of  Phar- 
macy were  then  called  over.  Dr.  Gerard  Troost  on  chemistry,  and  Dr.  Samuel 
Jackson  on  materia  medica,  were  the  original  faculty  in  1821.  Dr.  George  B. 
Wood  succeeded  Dr.  Troost  in  1822.  In  1827.,  Dr.  Benjamin  Ellis  succeeded 
Dr.  Jackson,  who  was  elected  to  the  University.  In  1831,  on  the  death  of  Dr. 
Ellis,  Dr.  Wood  was  transferred  to  the  chair  of  materia  medica,  and  Dr.  Frank- 
lin Bache  elected  to  the  chemical  chair.  In  183.5,  Dr.  Wood  having  been  elected 
to  the  University,  Robert  ICgglesfeld  Griffith,  M.  D.,  succeeded  him  for  a  single 
course,  when  he  entered  the  faculty  of  the  University  of  Maryland,  and  was 
succeeded  by  Dr.  Joseph  Carson.  In  1841,  Dr.  Bache  having  been  elected  to 
the  Jefferson*  Medical  College,  he  was  succeeded  by  Dr.  William  R.  Fisher,  late 
of  the  University  of  Maryland,  whose  health  giving  way,  he  resigned  in  1842,  and 
was  succeeded  by  the  present  incumbent.  Dr.  Robert  Bridges,  whose  service  of 
nearly  thirty  years,  claims  for  him  the  title  of  veteran.  Much  to  the  regret  of 
his  numerous  friends,  Dr.  Bridges,  now  convalescing  from  a  serious  attack  of 
typhoid  fever,  was  unable  to  attend.  In  1846,  the  new  professorship  of  Phar- 
macy was  instituted,  and  William  Procter,  Jr.,  a  graduate  of  the  College  of 
1837,  was  elected  to  fill  the  chair.  In  1850,  Prof.  Joseph  Carson,  after  a  faith- 
ful service  of  fourteen  years,  resigned  his  position,  to  succeed  Dr  Wood  in  the 
University,  when  Dr.  Robert  P.  Thomas  was  elected  to  succeed  hiin.  Dr. 
Thomas,  after  a  most  energetic  and  faithful  service  of  fourteen  years,  during 
which,  largely  owing  to  his  exertions,  the  class  doubled  its  numbers,  died  in  the 
midst  of  his  usefulness  at  the  close  of  the  session  early  in  1864,  and  was  suc- 
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