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Committee  on  Resolutions  repaired  to  the  residence  of  Dr.  Andrews,  and  the 
President  elect,  Dr.  J.  Brown  Baxley,  presented,  in  the  name  of  the  college, 
the  engrossed  copy  of  resolutions,  which  were  briefly  responded  to  by  the 
retiring  President.  The  next  day,  quite  a  number  of  the  members  of  the  col- 
lege and  other  friends  of  Dr.  Andrews  met  on  board  the  steamer  and  proceeded 
with  him  as  far  as  Swan  Point,  when,  after  many  kind  wishes  and  an  affection- 
ate adieu,  they  returned  to  Baltimore. 
The  Louisville  College  of  Pharmacy,  at  its  meeting  held  July  17th,  adopted 
the  following : 
Whereas,  It  has  pleased  an  all-wise  Providence  to  remove  from  our  midst, 
by  death,  onr  brother.  John  David  Owen,  who  had  endeared  himself  to  us  by 
his  deeds  of  kindness  and  Christian  charity;  therefore  be  it 
Resolved,  That  in  the  death  of  John  David  Owen,  the  College  of  Pharmacy 
has  lost  one  of  its  most  promising  members,  and  the  church  one  of  its  most 
active  and  zealous  advocates. 
Resolved^  That  we  exten'd  to  his  bereaved  family,  and  especially  his  aged 
mother,  our  heartfelt  sympathy  and  condolence  in  their  deep  affliction. 
Resolved,  That  we  wear  the  usual  badiie  of  mourning  for  thirty  days. 
Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  be  presented  to  the  members  of 
his  family  ;  that  the  same  be  published  in  the  daily  papers  and  spread  on  the 
records  of  this  association. 
The  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference  will  hold  its  annual  meeting  at 
Edinburgh,  on  the  first  of  August 
Pharmacy  in  Holland. — The  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  the  Netherlands 
held  its  23d  annual  meeting  on  the  27th  of  June.  The  introduction  into  the 
Pharmacopoeia  of  the  brown  Java  cinchona  bark,  and  the  legalization  of  the 
use  of  measures  of  capacity  were  amongst  the  subjects  considered. 
The  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Belgium  has  memorialized  the  Commission 
appointed  to  suggest  plans  for  the  reformation  of  academical  instruction,  and 
proposes,  among  others,  the  following  measures  :  Uniform  literary  attainments 
for  students  of  medicine  and  pharmacy,  and  attendance  upon  a  philosophical 
course  ;  enlargement  of  the  pharmaceutical  branches  by  the  addition  of  a 
course  on  hygiene,  by  fuller  instruction  in  quantitative  analysis,  and  by  a  spe- 
cial course  on  toxicology  ;  renewal  of  the  doctorate  in  pharmacy,  &c. 
The  Pharmaceutical  School  at  Strassburq  has  not  been  reopened  jet, 
but  the  lectures  are  continued  there  gratuitously,  with  the  approval  of  the 
authorities,  by  the  voluntary  labor  of  several  apothecaries  of  Strassburg. 
The  North  German  Apothecaries'  Society  will  hold  its  annual  meeting  at 
Dresden,  Saxony,  from  Sept.  14th  to  i6th. 
The  two  German  apothecaries'  societies  of  Northern  and  Southern  Germany 
are  arranging  the  preliminaries  for  the  purpose  of  effecting  a  union  and  forming 
one  national  association. 
The  Pharmaceutical  Institute  of  Dorpat,  Russia,  has  been  removed  into 
