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California  Pharmaceutical  Society  and  College  of  Phar- 
macy.— At  the  annual  meeting,  held  January  11th,  the  following  officers 
were  elected  for  the  ensuing  year  :  President,  Emlen  Painter ;  Vice  Presi- 
dents— F.  C.  Keil,  E.  W.  Runyon  ;  Corresponding  and  Recording  Secretary, 
Fred.  Grazer ;  Treasurer,  E.  A.  Schreck  ;  Librarian  and  Curator,  E.  Hap- 
persberger  ;  Editor,  John  Calvert;  Trustees— Emlen  Painter,  John  Calvert, 
S.  A.  McDonnell,  Fred.  Grazer,  D.  W.  Kirkland,  John  Dawson,  Fred.  C. 
Keil. 
The  various  officers  handed  in  their  annual  reports,  which  were  approved 
and  placed  on  file.  Mention  was  made  of  the  new  College  and  Society 
building,  now  in  the  course  of  construction,  estimating  its  cost  and  furnish- 
ing at  $6,000.  On  account  of  the  death  of  Mr.  Phrank  L.  Vreeland,  one  of 
the  officers  and  members,  the  meeting  was  adjourned  until  Thursday, 
January  25th,  when  several  amendments  to  the  by-laws  were  adopted,  and 
in  number  of  papers  on  pharmaceutical  subjects  were  read  and  have  since 
been  printed  in  the  "  Proceedings." 
The  new  building,  which  was  expected  to  be  finished  at  the  beginning  of 
the  lecture  course,  April  3d,  is  situated  on  Fulton  street,  between  Polk  and 
Van  Ness  avenue.  It  is  30x80  feet  in  size,  three  stories  high  in  front  and 
two  in  the  rear.  The  ground  floor  has  one  room  for  museum  and  library 
•and  another  for  the  pi'ofessors  ;  back  of  these  is  the  lecture  hall,  30x45  feet. 
Over  the  lecture  hall  is  the  laboratory,  of  the  same  size,  but  which  will  not 
be  equipped  at  present.  On  the  same  floor  are  three  rooms  designed  for  the 
the  use  of  the  Adelphi  Society  (an  association  of  the  students),  for  meetings 
of  committees  and  for  other  purposes.  The  third  story  consists  of  a  small 
•dwelling  of  five  rooms,  where  it  is  intended  the  janitor  shall  reside.  The 
subscriptions  to  the  building  fund  amounted  to  about  $4,000  last  January. 
We  congratulate  the  pioneer  College  of  Pharmacy  on  the  Pacific  Coast  to 
the  enlarged  field  of  usefulness  which  is  doubtless  in  store  for  it  and  can  be 
better  cultivated  now  that  it  has  secured  a  permanent  "  home." 
Kentucky  Pharmaceutical  Association. — Owing  to  the  removal  of 
Mr.  E.  S.  Porter  from  Eminence,  the  Executive  Committee  has  changed 
the  place  of  meeting  to  Lexington,  where  it  will  be  held  May  15th,  and  has 
iippointed  Mr.  J.  B.  Wood,  Acting  Local  Secretary. 
EDITORIAL  DEPARTMENT. 
Microscopical  Examination  of  Drugs.— Through  the  liberality  of 
Mr.  J.  H.  Redsecker,  of  Lebanon,  Pa.,  there  was  offered  to  the  last  senior 
■class  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  and  has  likewise  been 
offered  to  the  next  cJass  a  prize  of  $20,  in  the  department  of  Materia  Med- 
ica,  which  prize  according  to  the  recommendation  of  the  Committee  on 
Instruction,  approved  by  the  Board  of  Trustees,  was  to  be,  and  will  be,  com- 
peted for  in  the  following  manner  :  The  candidates  for  graduation  attain- 
ing the  grade  very  satisfa  ctory  in  the  examination  of  materia  medica  speci- 
mens and  questions,  are  to  examine  ten  sections  of  drugs,  the  prize  to  be 
awarded  to  the  one  determining  the  largest  number  correctly  ;  if  necessary, 
