524  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  {^S^m^ 
rials  can  be  obtained  from  untilled  or  untillable  areas  of  land  with 
the  assistance  of  low  priced  labor  their  production  as  an  agricultural 
crop  will  probably  be  very  limited.  But  should  economic  conditions 
so'  change  as  to  enable  certain  tannin  plants  to  compete  successfully 
with  general  field  crops  there  is  no  doubt  that  large  quantities  of  tan- 
ning materials  could  then  be  produced  on  an  agricultural  basis.  It 
follows,  then,  that  the  practical  importance  of  a  thorough  study 
of  the  geographic  distribution  of  tannin  plants  is  two-fold,  first, 
since  it  will  yield  more  definite  information  concerning  the  location 
and  available  quantity  of  existing  tannin  materials,  and  second, 
since  it  alone  can  furnish  a  rational  basis  for  extensive  experiments 
having  as  their  aim  the  introduction  of  tannin  plants  into  our  present 
system  of  agriculture. 
PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
Semi-Annual  Meeting. 
The  semi-annual  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
was  held  September  29th  at  4  p.m.  in  the  Library,  the  President, 
Howard  B.  French,  presiding.    Twenty  members  were  present. 
The  Minutes  of  the  quarterly  meeting  held  June  30th  were  read 
and  approved. 
The  Minutes  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  June  were  read  by  the 
Registrar  J.  S.  Beetem,  and  approved. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Nominations  was  read  and 
ordered  entered  and  filed. 
The  report  of  delegates  to  the  meeting  of  the  American  Pharma- 
ceutical Association  held  at  Nashville,  Tennessee,  August  18-23,  in 
the  absence  of  the  Chairman,  Professor  Remington,  was  presented 
by  Professor  Lowe.  A  further  report  was  also  read  by  Professor 
Kraemer. 
Professor  Lowe  said  that  the  sixty-first  annual  convention  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association  was  held  in  Nashville,  Tenn., 
August  18-23,  1913.  The  college  was  represented  by  the  following: 
Jos.  P.  Remington,  Geo.  M.  Beringer,  E.  F.  Cook,  Joseph  W.England, 
Henry  Kraemer,  Adolph  W.  Miller,  Clement  B.  Lowe,  F.  X.  Moerk, 
and  F.  P.  Stroup.  A  few  of  the  Eastern  delegation  went  to  the  meet- 
ing by  way  of  Cincinnati  in  which  city  they  were  delightfully  enter- 
