Editorial. 
<  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\       May,  1875. 
The  Alumni  Associaton  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  has 
adopted  a  new  Constitution,  by  virtue  of  which  all  graduates  of  this  College  are 
members.  No  dues  are  to  be  paid,  the  income  being  derived  from  the  charge  for 
the  certificate  of  membership  ($5),  which,  we  presume,  is  obtained  by  every  gradu- 
ate who  values  the  recollections  of  his  college  life. 
We  notice  from  the  printed  Minutes  that  this  Association  has  received  from  the 
Zeta  Phi  Society  (Class  1873-74)  $150,  which  sum  is  to  be  applied  for  furniture, 
whenever  the  College  can  spare  a  separate  room  for  the  purposes  of  this  society. 
The  National  College  of  Pharmacy  at  Washington  held  its  fourth  an- 
nual meeting  April  5th,  President  Ferguson  in  the  chair,  J.  C.  Fill,  Secretary. 
After  the  reports  of  the  officers  and  committees  had  been  received,  the  resignation 
of  Mr.  G,  G.  Simms,  as  Professor  of  Pharmacy,  was  accepted,  and  Professor  Oscar 
Oldberg  elected  as  his  successor.  During  the  past  winter,  thirty-four  students  at- 
tended the  lectures,  three  of  whom  graduated.  It  was  stated  that  an  alumni  asso- 
ciation has  been  organized.  A  Committee  was  appointed  to  confer  with  the  med- 
ical profession  of  the  district,  with  reference  to  the  so-called  "  elegant  pharmaceu- 
tical specialties." 
The  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  ensuing  year  :  President,  R.  B.  Fer- 
guson j  Vice-Presidents,  F.  S.  Gaither  and  F.  D.  Dowling  5  Corresponding  Sec- 
retary, Prof.  O.  Oldberg  5  Treasurer,  W.  L.  Thompson  ;  Librarian  and  Curator, 
Rud.  Oldberg;  Recording  Secretary,  J.  C.  Fill;  Trustees,  J.  A.  Milburn,  J.  R. 
Major,  W.  G.  Duckett,  J.  D.  O'Donnell  and  Chas.  Becker. 
St.  Louis  College  of  Pharmacy. — The  annual  course  of  lectures,  which  closed 
March  22d,  1875,  was  attended  by  seventy-four  students,  seventeen  of  whom  passed 
a  successful  examination  before  the  Professors  and  the  Board  of  Examiners,  consist- 
ing of  Charles  Habicht,  J.  M.  Good  and  Charles  Bang. 
Vice-President  Good  presented  the  diplomas,  and  Prof.  O.  A.  Wall,  M.  D.,  de- 
livered the  Valedictory  Address  to  the  following  graduates  :  Charles  Geitner 
(Thesis  :  Iron  and  its  Preparations),  Henry  Rommel  (Sulphur),  John  R.  Raboteau 
(Antimony),  H.  W.  Barkhoefer  (Bismuth),  Charles  A.  Lips  (Lead),  Joseph  E. 
Ilg  (Polygala  Senega),  Francis  Hemm  (Morphology  of  Vegetable  Organs),  H.  T.. 
Bechtold  (Jalap),  Edward  Gallenkamp  (^ther),  John  G.  Goehring  (Sulphuric 
Acid),  Wm.  A.  Briichner  (Iodine),  Ernest  Krebs  (Antimony),  Elliott  Steinhauser 
(Opium  and  its  Preparations),  Fred.  F.  Reichenbach  (Cinchona),  Wm.  C.  Bohra 
(Bismuth),  James  R.  Watkins  (Percolation),  Julius  E.  Koch  (Creasote). 
The  prize  for  Materia  Medica  was  awarded  to  F.  Hemm  ;  for  Botany,  to  Chas. 
Geitner;  and  for  Chemistry,  to  H.  Rommel. 
University  of  Vienna. — The  chair  of  pharmaceutical  chemistry,  made  vacant 
by  the  death  of  Prof.  Rochleder,  has  been  filled  by  the  appointment  of  Prof.  Lieben, 
heretofore  of  Prague,  Bohemia. 
EDITORIAL  DEPARTMENT. 
American  Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science. — At  the  cel- 
ebration of  the  centennial  anniversary  of  the  discovery  of  oxygen  by  Priestley,  the 
chemists  assembled  at  Northumberland,  Pa  ,  August  ist,  1874,  took  steps  to  sug- 
gest to  the  above  association  the  establishment  of  a  chemical  section.  The  Asso- 
ciation responded  thereto,  and  at  its  Hartford  meeting  last  summer,  a  new  constitu- 
tion was  adopted,  and  under  its  provisions  a  section  of"  chemistry,  chemical  physics,, 
chemical  technology  and  metallurgy  "  was  organized,  of  which  Prof.  S.  W.  Johnson, 
