1 8  8  Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations,  {^"^-l^^]  J^^l"^' 
education,  and  referred  to  the  increased  attendance  at  this  college,  stating,  that  the 
first  regular  session  in  1871  had  thirty-two  matriculants  5  in  1872,  there'were  fifty: 
m  1873-4,  seventy-two  5  and  for  1874-5,  seventy-six. 
Hon.  Samuel  F.  Hunt  next  entertained  the  audience  in  a  very  able  address  on  "  The 
Science  of  Pharmacy  5  its  relation  to  Medicine  and  Society  at  large." 
After  some  further  remarks  by  Prof  Judge  on  behalf  of  the  faculty,  Mr.  N.  J. 
Ratliff,  of  the  graduating  class,  delivered  the  valedictory.  Mr.  Theo.  Bange  was 
presented  with  a  gold  medal,  for  standing  highest  at  the  examination  j  and  the 
graduating  class  presented  to  the  College  a  half-length  oil  portrait  of  the  late  Prof. 
W.  B.  Chapman,  who,  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  filled  the  chair  of  Professor  of 
Pharmacy. 
Late  in  the  evening  the  Alumni,  Faculty,  Trustees  of  the  College,  and  some  in- 
vited guests,  assembled  at  Keppler's,  spending  some  pleasant  hours  at  the  annual 
banquet.   
Louisville  College  of  Pharmacy. — The  fifth  annual  meeting  was  held  in  the 
College  hall,  corner  Second  and  Jefferson  streets,  March  8th,  for  the  purpose  of 
electing  directors  and  officers,  and  celebrating  graduation  exercises. 
The  following  Board  of  Directors  was  elected  to  serve  the  ensuing  year:  C.  Lewis 
Diehl,  Vincent  Davis,  Wm.  G.  Schmidt,  S.  Fisher  Dawes,  Bernh.  Bueckle,  J.  M. 
Krim,  Emil  Scheffer,  Fred.  C.  Miller,  John  Colgan,  Ferd.  J.  Pfingst,  Wiley  Rogers, 
J.  A.  McAfee. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Louisville  College  of  Pharmacy, 
held  immediately  after  the  adjournment  of  the  annual  meeting  of  the  College,  the 
following  officers  were  elected  to  serve  the  ensuing  year  :  President,  C.  Lewis  Diehl  5 
Vice-Presidents,  Emil  Scheffer,  Vincent  Davis,-  Recording  Secretary,  Fred.  C.  Mil- 
ler; Corresponding  Secretary,  William  G.  Schmidt  5  Treasurer,  S  .  Fisher  Dawes  5 
Curator,  James  A.  McAfee. 
The  following  young  gentlemen,  having  been  recommended  by  the  faculty  and 
committee,  had  the  degree  of  Graduate  in  Pharmacy  conferred  upon  them  :  Bernh. 
Bueckle,  Albert  J.  Schoettlin,  Emil  Scheffer,  Jr.,  and  Oscar  Beckman. 
The  graduating  class  was  addressed  by  Prof.  L.  D  .  Kastenbine,  who  delivered  an 
■entertaining  and  instructive  lecture  "  On  the  Origin,  Rise  and  Progress  of  Chem- 
istry." 
The  Alumni  Association  of  the  Louisville  College  of  Pharmacy  was 
organized  December  17th,  1874,  and  the  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  ensu- 
ing year  5  President,  Jno.  F.  Rudell  j  Vice-Presidents,  Henry  Preissler,  E.  D.  Cald- 
well 5  Recording  Secretary,  Henry  N.  Voigt  5  Corresponding  Secretary,  Chas.  P. 
Frick;  Treasurer,  Wm.  Tafel  5  Board  of  Directors,  Chas  O.  Frick,  Jno.  C.  Loomis, 
Ed.  E.  Anderson,  Phil.  G.  Beutel,  and  Chas.  De  Kress. 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association. — The  Committee  on  the  Ebert 
Prize  have  made  the  following  report : 
*'7o  the  President  of  the  Ajnerican  Pharmaceutical  Association : 
"  The  Committee  on  the  Ebert  Prize  respectfully  report  that  they  have  carefully 
examined  the  original  essays  presented  at  the  Twenty-second  Annual  Meeting  of 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  a  number  of  which  contain  more  or  less 
valuable  contributions  to  pharmaceutical  knowledge,  and  that  they  selected  for  their 
especial  consideration  the  papers  offered  by  Ottmar  Eberbach,  of  Ann  Arbor,  Mich. ; 
J.  Creuse,  of  New  York,  and  Charles  L.  Mitchell,  of  Philadelphia,  believing  that 
these  approach  more  nearly  to  the  conditions  laid  down  by  the  founder  of  the  prize 
than  the  others. 
"  Mr.  Eberbach's  paper  'On  Cokhicia'  is  the  result  of  his  investigations  under- 
taken with  the  view  of  finding  a  working  process  for  preparing  colchicia  for  medic- 
inal purposes.  The  process  adopted  is  based  upon  that  of  Geiger  and  Hesse,  but 
considerably  modified,  and  with  the  adoption  of  Dragendorff's  suggestion  of  using 
chloroform  for  the  extraction  of  colchicia  from  the  alkaline  solution.  Since  this 
alkaloid  is  repeatedly  subjected  to  the  influence  of  free  alkali  and  acid,  even  at  a 
