280  Pharmaceutical  Colleges,  etc.  I^june'^imr* 
Maisch,  of  Philadelphia,  and  Mr.  Tufts,  the  Treasurer  of  the  American  Phar- 
maceutical Association,  were  read. 
The  report  ot  the  Executive  Committee  was  read  and  approved.  Mr.  Steele 
next  read  the  Constitution  and  By-Laws  of  the  Society,  amended  with  a  view 
to  incorporation.  Thef=e  were  approved,  article  by  article,  and  the  Executive 
Committee  empowered  to  take  immediate  steps  for  the  incorporation  of  the 
Society. 
The  following-  is  the  report  of  the  Executive  Committee  : 
The  Executive  Committee  of  the  California  Pharmaceutical  Society  herewith, 
present  the  Constitution  and  By-Laws  of  the  Society  amended  with  a  view  to 
the  speedy  incorporation  of  the  Society,  according  to  the  laws  of  the  State  of 
California. 
The  pharmaceutists  throughout  the  country  are  gradually  awakening  to  the 
importance  of  a  thorough  practical  and  scientific  pharmaceutical  education,  in 
order  to  place  the  practice  of  pharmacy  where  it  properly  belongs — among  the 
learned  professions,  a  rank  already  accorded  to  it  in  most  parts  of  Europe — and 
as  to  further  develope  this  sentiment  among  our  fellow  pharmaceutists  was  the 
prime  motive  in  organizing  the  California  Pharmaceutical  Society,  we  regard  it 
he  duty  and  interest  of  all  pharmaceutists  to  identify  themselves  with  us. 
That  in  order  to  elevate  the  standard  of  pharmaceutical  education  in  our 
midst  an  institution  aiming  at  the  objects  expressed  in  our  Constitution  is  abso- 
lutely necessary,  we  think  all  must  concede. 
The  practice  of  pharmacy  has  been  placed  under  legislative  restriction  in 
most  parts  of  Europe,  and  as  is  well  known  sumptuary  and  restraining  laws 
have  been  passed  recently  by  the  Legislatures  of  various  States  of  the  Union; 
and  a  regard  for  our  own  reputation  would  seem  to  require  us  to  prepare  and 
offer  a  bill  providing  for  the  examination  and  registration  of  apothecaries  to  the 
Legislature  at  its  next  session. 
Knowing  it  to  be  the  will  of  our  organization  that  we  enroll  ourselves  among 
the  incorporate  bodies  of  the  land,  that  thereby  we  may  strengthen  and  increase 
our  ijifluence,  and  provide  for  our  future  prosperity  ;  and  believing  that  our 
action  herein  is  but  the  prelude  to  the  early  establishment  of  a  College  of  Phar- 
macy, we  offer  this  report  with  a  sincerely  expressed  hope  that  the  wishes  of 
our  hearts  in  the  matter  of  the  elevation  of  the  character  of  the  pharmaceuti- 
cal profession  in  our  State  may  be  gradually  and  effectually  accomplished. 
(Signed)  William  Simpson, 
William  Geary, 
W.  T.  Wenzell, 
Wm.  E.  Mayhew, 
James  G.  Steele, 
Committee. 
PharmaceiUical  Association  in  Mississippi.— At  the  fourth  annual  meeting 
of  the  State  Medical  Association  of  Mississippi,  held  at  Meridian  in  the  begin- 
ning of  last  April,  the  following  resolution,  offered  by  Dr.  Barnett,  was 
adopted : 
