PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 
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The College appointed on the Committee Daniel B. 
Smith, Charles Ellis. Ambrose Smith, Thomas P. James, 
Edward Parrish, and Professors Bridges, Carson, and 
Procter. 
The edition of Patent Medicine Directions being nearly- 
exhausted, it was, on motion of Charles Ellis, Resolved, 
That a new edition be printed, and that a Committee of 
three be appointed for that purpose, with authority to use 
any funds on hand which have arisen from the sale of 
directions and Latin labels, or which may be at the disposal 
of the Committee on the Sinking Fund. 
On motion, the Committee on the Sinking Fund, con- 
sisting of Samuel F. Troth, Warder Morris and Joseph C. 
Turnpenny, were appointed. 
The following communication was presented and read, 
and the members whose names are attached thereto were 
appointed to give attention to the subject embraced in the 
resolution. 
To the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. 
We, the undersigned, members of the College, beg leave 
to call your attention to a subject of some importance to 
the interests of the Institution. 
We allude to the Cabinet of the College, and think that 
an establishment with the reputation of the Philadelphia 
College of Pharmacy should have a collection of Materia 
Medica, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Specimens, com- 
mensurate with its magnitude — not only as affording an 
excellent basis for illustration in the School of Pharmacy, 
but as a means of comparison in cases of investigation. 
When it is understood that the College possesses no 
Cabinet of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Specimens what- 
ever — that its collection of the Materia Medica is extremely 
imperfect, (the illustration of the lectures depending almost 
entirely on the cabinets of the Lectures,) it cannot but excite 
surprise. A good collection is not the work of a year ; and at 
