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10  the  College,  with  the  stipulation  that  the  fund  be  known  as  the  "  Robert  Bridges 
Scholarship  Fund,"  and  that  the  interest  thereof  be  annually  appropriated  toward 
defraying  the  expenses  of  one  or  rrore  deserving  students,  under  the  direction  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees.  In  the  course  of  the  evening  it  was  also  announced  that  a 
friend  of  the  College  had  offered  to  the  class  of  1879-1880  the  sum  of  $100,  as  a 
prize,  for  the  best  thesis.  The  exercises  over,  the  company  was  invited  to  proceed 
to  the  museum,  where  a  collation  was  provided,  and  where  the  younger  folks  after- 
wards indulged  in  singing  and  dancing.  A  society  has  been  formed,  styled  the 
"**  Zeta  Phi  Alpha  Society,"  with  the  view  of  gathering  the  alumni  tri-annually  in  a 
social  reunion ;  its  first  president  is  Jos.  L.  Lemberger,  Ph.G.,  of  the  class  of  1854. 
Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy.— The  annual  meeting  of  the  Massachu- 
setts College  of  Pharmacy  was  held  on  March  3d,  1879.  The  following  officers  were 
elected:  Thomas  L.  Jenks,  M.D.,  President;  B.  F.  Stacey,  First  Vice  President; 
A.  R.  Bayley,  Second  Vice  President ;  Thomas  Doliber,  Ph.G.,  Recording  Secre- 
tary ;  Prof.  G.  F.  H.  Markoe,  Ph.G.,  Corresponding  Secretary;  Charles  I.  Eaton, 
Treasurer ;  James  S.  Melvin,  Auditor — Trustees  :  Henry  Canning,  Secretary  ; 
George  H  Cowdin,  Ph.G.;  Edward  S.  Kelley,  Ph.G.;  Chas.  P.  Orne,  Ph.G.,-  S.  A. 
D.  Shepphard,  Ph.G.;  Charles  A.  Tufts,  M.D.,  Ph.G.;  I.  Bartlett  Patten,  Daniel 
«G.  Wilkins. 
The  College  introduced  three  new  features  the  past  year.  First.  Compulsory 
and  Free  Laboratory  Exercise,  in  connection  with  the  new  chemical  laboratory. 
This  was  opened  last  autumn,  and  will  accommodate  256  students.  Second.  A 
Junior  Examination  in  October  for  those  students  who  failed  to  pass  the  .regular 
Junior  Examination  in  the  Spring.  Third.  Preliminary  Examination  in  reading, 
writing,  spelling,  and  arithmetic  as  far  as  and  including  fractions  and  proportions. 
This  was  announced  in  the  College  Catalogue  of  1877-78. 
The  school  of  Pharmacy  has  been  attended  the  present  session  by  114  students. 
The  school  suffered  a  great  loss  in  the  death  of  Prof.  Merrick,  which  took  place  on 
the  25th  of  February  of  this  year.  Prof.  Merrick  had  filled  the  chair  of  Chemistry 
for  five  years. 
The  College  at  this  meeting  voted  a  change  in  its  by-laws,  whereby  wholesale 
druggists  and  manufacturers  of  pharmaceutical  preparations  can  become  members. 
The  retiring  president,  Mr.  Sheppard,  read  an  address  detailing  the  events  of  the 
past  year  in  reference  to  the  College,  and  containing  many  valuable  suggestions  for 
its  future  welfare.  Thomas  Doliber,  Rec.  Sec. 
New  York  College  of  Pharmacy. — The  forty-ninth  annual  commencement  took 
place  in  Chickering  Hall  on  the  evening  of  March  1 8th.    After  an  address  by  the 
President,  Mr.  Ewen  Mclntyre,  the  degree  of  Graduate  in  Pharmacy  was  conferred 
on  the  following  gentlemen  : 
Samuel  Abraham,  New  York,  Urine. 
Louis  Bangert,  New  Jersey,  Products  of  Destructive  Distillation. 
Samuel  M.  Barbarow,  New  Jersey,  Pills  and  Excipients. 
Smith  Bartlett,  Cape  Vincent,  Zinc  and  its  Preparations. 
Conrad  W.  Braeutigam,  New  York,  Emplastrum  Plurnbi. 
Ernest  Breiting,  Germany,  Iodine  and  its  Officinal  Preparations. 
John  Breuing,  New  Jersey,  The  Various  Processes  of  Pill  Coating. 
Percival  Brewer,  Illinois,  The  Comparative  Quantity  of  Pure  Phosphoric  Acid  m 
j£nj£ral  samples  of  Diluted  Phosphoric  Acid  of  Commerce. 
