NEW YORK COLLEGE OP PHARMACY. 
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examination. Tims far was therefore published in the 
Journal of Commerce and Express, and also in the Boston 
papers. 
Your committee are informed that these ten cases of opium, 
after being sent to Boston, were sold to a wholesale drug- 
gist in this city, with a guarantee as to quality ; samples 
being sent on to him, portions of these samples amounting 
to 1000 grains, were examined and found to fall short of 
the per centage of morphia mentioned above. Your com- 
mittee also have learnt that other samples of the same 
opium, by order of the owner, have been examined by Dr. 
Jas. R. Chilton, who has given a certificate of its containing 
five per cent, of morphia. 
All which is respectfully submitted. 
Signed, 
John H. Currie, Chairman. 
July 3d, 1845. 
It was on motion, Resolved, That the report of the Com- 
mittee of Inspection be sent to the publishers of the Ame- 
rican Journal of Pharmacy, to publish if they think proper. 
By order, 
John Meakim, Secretary. 
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