MINUTES  OF  THE  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
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At  the  Semi-Annual  Meeting  of  the  College,  held  Ninth  month  27th, 
1853.    S.  F.  Troth,  Vice-President,  presiding. 
The  minutes  of  the  Annual  Meeting  were  read  and  adopted. 
The  minutes  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  the  past  six  months  were  read. 
They  inform  that  Pierce  B.  Wilson  has  been  elected  a  member  of  the  Col- 
lege since  our  last  Meeting. 
The  following  Report  was  read  and  accepted. 
"The  Delegates  elected  to  attend  the  Seventh  Annual  Meeting  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  held  at  Washington  on  the  14th 
inst.,  Report  that  they  performed  the  duty,  and  were  highly  gratified 
during  the  Sessions  of  the  Association  to  witness  so  much  earnestness  in 
the  advancement  of  our  profession  as  was  manifested  by  the  numerous 
attendance  and  the  valuable  reports  and  papers  which  were  submitted. 
Delegates  were  present  from  all  the  Pharmaceutical  bodies  within  the 
United  States,  except  those  of  Richmond  and  San  Francisco.    Our  New 
York  and  New  England  friends  were  numerous,  and  usefully  active  in  the 
proceedings.    The  Meeting  was  held  in  the  building  of  the  Smithsonian 
Institute,  where  ample  accommodation  was  afforded  through  the  politeness 
and  courtesy  of  Prof.  Joseph  Henry,  who  at  one  of  the  Meetings  gave  the 
Association  some  account  of  the  operations  of  the  Institute,  and  expressed 
his  gratification  with  what  he  had  witnessed  of  the  operations  and  objects 
of  our  body.    He  also  personally  welcomed  the  members.     It  would  be 
impossible,  within  the  short  limit  of  this  report,  to  convey  an  idea  of  the 
amount  of  labor  submitted  to  the  Association  for  its  approval,  but  we  will 
be  within  reason  to  say  that  the  published  proceedings  will  probably  exceed 
400  and  possibly  450  pages.     Many  of  the  papers  referred  to  strictly 
scientific  subjects,  others  were  of  a  mixed  character,  and  not  a  few  were 
valuable  additions  to  practical  Pharmacy.    Among  so  much  that  is  valua- 
ble it  may  appear  invidious  to  single  out  special  instances  of  merit,  but 
we  may  be  allowed  to  allude  to  the  papers  of  Dr.  Squibb,  on  the  revision  of 
the  Pharmacopoeia,  Frederick  Stearns,  on  the  Peppermint  plantations  of 
Michigan,  and  John  M.  Maisch,  on  the  testing  of  volatile  oils,  as  particu- 
larly meritorious.    D.  J.  Browne,  Esq.,  of  the  Agricultural  Bureau  of  the 
Patent  Office,  was  present,  and  addressed  the  Association,  and  invited  it  to 
take  apart  in  furthering  the  objects  of  that  department  by  the  distribution 
of  substances  and  plants  of  a  medicinal  nature  that  may  be  imported  by 
the  office.    A  Committee  was  appointed  who,  in  their  report,  suggest  that 
the  several  Secretaries  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Institutions  of  the  country  be 
made  the  recipients  of  the  articles  distributed. 
"The  Washington  Association  invited  the  National  Association  to  partici- 
pate in  a  visit  to  Mount  Vernon  and  the  tomb  of  Washington,  by  way  of  the 
Potomac.    The  invitation  was  accepted,  and  long  will  it  be  a  bright  spot  in 
