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NEW YORK COLELGE OF PHARMACY. 
ART. LXIX — AN ADDRESS DELIVERED TO THE GRADUATES 
OF THE NFW YORK COLLEGE OF PHARMACY, NOV. 20th. 
1845, By George D, Coggeshall, Esq., Vice President of the 
College. 
At a stated meeting of the College of Pharmacy of New- 
York, held November 20th, 1845, Messrs. Buckland W. 
Bull, Joseph Roberts, and William B. Riker, were declared 
graduates in Pharmacy ; whereupon they were addressed 
by George D. Coggeshall, Esq., one of the Vice Presidents 
of the College. 
On motion, the Secretary was requested to call on Mr. 
Coggeshall, and request a copy of his address for publica- 
tion in the American Journal of Pharmacy. 
John Meakim, Secretaryc 
ADDRESS. 
Gentlemen, Graduates of the College : 
It has become a part of the business of this meeting to 
confer upon you a testimony of honor and confidence to 
which you have earned a title by diligence in practical and 
theoretical study. We trust that while it may prove to 
you a letter of credit, wherever your future course may be 
directed, it will ever be an incentive to honor the 
institution which has cherished you, as you best can do, 
by faithfully and zealously performing the duties of your 
profession. 
And Ave would earnestly press upon your attention that 
your studies, though with good conduct, they have brought 
you to an auspicious point, have but fairly commenced. 
The field of learning which opens before you, is too vast 
to be embraced in the teaching of any school, in which the 
main outlines and points of every day concern only can be 
enforced, giving the student, however, a direction and on- 
ward impulse, very helpful to him certainly, but which he 
