■zjo  Minutes  of  the  College.  { ^ay^C^T** 
Central  Sanitary  Board,  Home  Department,  ) 
Tokio,  Japan,  March,  I879.  J 
'CHARLES  BULLOCK,  Esq.,  1st  Vice-President  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  Philadel- 
phia, Pa..  U  S.  A. 
Dear  Sir  — I  duly  received  your  letter,  dated  December  2d,  1878,  together  with  bill  of  lading  for  four 
boxes  containing  specimens  of  American  medicinal  artic'es. 
The  140  specimens  (in  duplicate)  arrived  here  quite  safe  on  the  9th  of  January,  and  I  feel  great  pleas- 
ure to  receive  such  co.nplete  and  va  uable  collection  from  your  College  in  exchange  for  the  set  of  Japan- 
ese medicinal  artic'es  I  sent  you  before.  One  set  is  kept  in  the  office  of  the  Central  Sanitary  Board  and 
a  duplicate  was  sent  to  the  Medical  Department  of  the  Tokio  University. 
Please  be  kind  enough  to  acknowledge  the  safe  reception  of  the  collection  and  to  accept  my  best 
thanks  for  it. 
Very  respectfully  yours,  SENSAT  NAGAYO, 
Chief  of  the  Central  Sanitary  Board  in  the  Home  Department  of  Japan. 
Professor  Maisch  read  his  report  as  Editor  of  the  "Journal  of  Pharmacy,"  giving 
many  interesting  facts  connected  therewith,  some  of  which  will  be  of  interest  to  the 
contributors  to  its  columns.    The  following  is  an  abstract  of  the  report: 
The  Editor  respectfully  reports  that, as  heretofore,  the  "Journal  "  has  been  regularly  issued  about 
the  first  of  each  month,  with  the  exception  of  ihe  December  number,  1878,  the  publication  of  which  was 
■deferred,  with  the  consent  of  the  Publishing  Committee,  so  that  lastyear's  volume  might  contain  a  report 
of  the  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  which,  on  account  of  the  yellow  fever, 
had  been  postponed  from  September  to  November  26th. 
It  was  again  found  necessary  to  issue  several  numbers  consisting  almost  exclusively  of  original  essays 
and  translations,  and  to  increase  the  size  of  the  volume  closing  last  December,  from  the  promised  576  to 
-624  pages.  It  is  gratifying  to  state  that,  with  few  exceptions,  the  original  papers  contributed  to  the 
"Journal"  have  been  republished,  or  translated,  entirely,  or  in  abstract,  by  other  journals. 
During  the  year  closing  with  the  March  number,  thirteen  members  of  the  College  contributed  to 
the  "Journal"  twenty-two  papers,  and  there  were  fourty-four  contributors  against  forty-seven  during  the 
preceding  year,  who  are  not  members  of  the  College  ;  the  contributions  from  this  source  were  fifty-two. 
The  abstracts  from  theses,  which  the  Editor  deemed  worthy  of  publication,  have  diminished  from 
twenty-six  during  the  preceding  year  to  thirteen,  a  falling  off  of  one-half. 
Perhaps  the  time  may  noi  have  arrived  yet  when  the  thesis  should  be  considered  in  graduation,  but 
m  the  Editor's  opinion  it  would  not  be  asking  too  much  if  each  thesis,  pretending  to  be  based  on  original 
■experimentation,  should  be  accompanied  by  a  full  line  of  specimens,  including  the  crude  material  and 
all  the  finished  products,  such  specimens  to  be  subject  to  verification  and  to  be  incorporated  with  the 
collections  of  the  College. 
Of  the  original  papers  published  in  the  "  Journal  "  twelve  were  read  at  the  Pharmaceutical  Meet- 
ings and  at  the  meetings  of  the  Alumni  Association,  and  four  before  other  colleges  of  pharmacy.  Sixteen 
papers  related  to  subject!  of  materia  medica,  twelve  to  chemistry,  thirty-four  to  pharmacy  and  twelve  to 
other  subjects  of  interest.  Forty-six  authors  contributed  each  one  paper ;  seven  each  two  papers  ;  two 
each  three  papers,  and  two  authors  contributed  four  papers  each. 
Respectfully  submitted,  JOHN  M.  MAISCH,  Editor. 
The  report  of  the  Publishing  Committee  was  read  by  the  chairman,  and  was,  on 
motion,  accepted. 
To  the  members  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  : 
The  Committe  respectfully  report  that  they  have  attended  regularly  to  the  duties  of  their  appoint- 
ment for  the  year  ending  at  this  date. 
The  "  Journal"  of  the  College  has  been  promptly  issued  on  the  first  of  each  month  as  usual,  and 
is,  we  think,  a  true  record  of  the  progress  of  Pharmaceutical  Science  for  the  period  intended  to  be 
covered. 
The  list  of  subscribers  has  continued  reasonably  good,  considering  the  long  oontinued  depression  of 
business  throughout  the  country,  and  which  pharmacy  has  felt  as  much  as  any  other  occupation. 
The  reporis  of  the  Treasurer  and  of  the  Business  Editor,  which  accompany  this,  will  give  in  detail' 
all  the  receipts  and  expenditures  of  the  year. 
HENRY  N.  RITTENHOUSE, 
Philadelphia,  March  31st,  1879.  Chairman  Publication  Committee. 
