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Memoir  of  Daniel  B.  Smith. 
J  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
1      July,  1883. 
proceedings  of  the  druggists  and  apothecaries  of  this  city  which  this 
proposition  on  the  part  of  the  Trustees  of  the  University  gave  occa- 
sion to  are  summarized  by  Edward  Parrish  in  an  Historical  Me- 
moir/' read  at  the  opening  of  this  building,  October  7,  1868.  The 
result  was  the  adoption  of  and  signing  of  a  constitution  on  the  3d  of 
March,  1821,  of  a  College  especially  intended  for  the  instruction  of 
Druggists.  The  first  meeting  of  The  College  of  Apothecaries ''  was 
held  March  27,  1821,  at  which  officers  were  elected,  Daniel  B.  Smith 
being  chosen  Secretary. 
On  the  30th  of  March,  1822,  the  institution  was  incorporated  as  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
At  a  meeting  held  June  28,  1825,  a  Committee  on  Publication  was 
appointed,  D.  B.  Smith,  Chairman.  This  committee  reported  March 
28,  1826,  the  issue  of  the  first  number  of  the  '^American  Journal  of 
Pharmacy."  Two  hundred  and  fifty  copies  were  issued  and  eighty 
subscribers  obtained.  D.  B.  Smith  was  a  liberal  contributor  of  origi- 
nal articles  to  the  early  volumes  of  this  journal,  and  furnished  many 
valuable  selections  from  foreign  periodicals.  His  original  article  on 
Epsom  Salts  and  Magnesia  "  opened  the  first  number  in  December, 
1825.  A  Review  of  Chemical  Manipulations,  by  Campbell  Morfit," 
in  the  twenty-ninth  volume,  1857,  closed  his  contributions  to  this 
Journal.  After  service  as  Secretary  for  seven  years,  he  was  elected 
Vice-President  in  1828,  and  President  in  1829.  For  a  period  of 
twenty-five  years  he  held  this  position,  resigning  in  1854.  During 
this  period  of  a  quarter  of  a  century  the  College  encountered  the  diffi- 
culties which  are  not  uncommon  to  growing  institutions — financial 
difficulties  and  a  want  of  cordial  support  from  the  profession  in  this 
city.  A  comprehensive  and  intelligent  view  of  the  field  awaiting  cul- 
tivation in  the  department  of  pharmacy  was  never  lost  sight  of  by  the 
President  and  his  associates.  The  awakening  to  a  realization  of  the 
benefits  to  be  derived  from  systematic  instruction  came  at  last,  and  our 
venerable  ex-President  lived  to  see  the  list  of  graduates  increase  from 
three  in  1826  to  fifty-one  in  1868,  and  one  hundred  and  fifty-three  in 
1883. 
After  retiring  from  active  participation  in  the  councils  of  the  Col- 
lege, his  interest  in  its  welfare  remained  as  a  prominent  feature  of  his 
after  life. 
The  publication  of  the  Pharmacopceia  of  1830  was  followed  in  1833 
by  the  United  States  Dispensatory,  by  Drs.  Wood  and  Bache. 
