2  82         Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations.  {'^"'j/,ne!\8'7^^''^' 
Pharmaclas,  Copenhagen,  Denmark,  and  N.  P.  Hamberg,  M.  D.,  Director  of  the 
Pharmaceutical  Institution  at  Stockholm,  Sweden.  Messrs.  E.  B.  Shuttleworth,  of 
Toronto,  and  William  Saunders,  of  London,  Canada,  were  elected  corresponding 
members. 
Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy. — At  the  Ninth  Annual  Commence- 
ment, held  at  Parker  Memorial  Hall,  May  20th,  the  President,  S.  M.  Colcord- 
conferred  the  degree  of  Graduate  in  Pharmacy  upon  the  following  gentlemen  : 
Charles  Henry  Congdon  (thesis  :  Solubility  of  Camphor  In  Water),  Edward  Everett 
Babb  (Uva  Ursi),  William  Carley  Durkee  (Tincture  and  Solution  of  Chloride  of 
Iron),  Frank  Warren  Hay  (Iodide  of  Potassium),  Ernest  Clifton  Marshall  (Gly- 
cerin), and  Joseph  Benedict  Fenelon  (Cannabis  Indica),  Professor  T.  Sterry  Hunt 
delivered  an  address  on  the  relation  of  chemistry  to  pharmacy  and  therapeutics  j 
the  valedictory  address  was  delivered  by  Prof.  William  P.  Bolles. 
Chicago  College  of  Pharmacy. — Dr.  Trimble  has  resigned  the  chair  ot 
Materia  Medica  and  Toxicology.  At  the  April  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees^ 
a  vote  of  thanks  was  tendered  to  the  subscribers  to  the  Chicago  Druggists'  Relief 
Fund,  who,  on  the  redistribution  by  the  (Committee  to  the  original  donors  pro  rata 
of  the  unexpended  balance,  generously  donated  their  share  to  this  College.  The 
following  gentlemen  were  elected  honorary  members  :  Dr.  C.  Mehu,  France  \  Dr- 
O.Hesse,  Germany  5  Dr.  J.  E.  DeVrij,  Holland  5  and  Dr.  W.  Handsell  Griffiths, 
Ireland. 
The  Pharmaceutical  Association  of  Quebec  has  appointed  the  following 
Board  of  Examiners  under  the  Pharmacy  Act,  recently  passed  for  the  province  of 
Quebec:  Nathan  Mercer,  Alexander  Manson,  W.  E.  Brunet,  Henry  R.  Gray^ 
J.  D.  L.  Ambrosse,  H.  F,  Jackson  and  Henry  Lyman. 
Victorian  Chemists'  Assistants'  Association. — -We  have  received  the  Second 
Annual  Report  of  this  Association,  which  was  instituted,  in  September,  1872,  in 
Melbourne,  Australia,  for  the  promotion  of  unity  and  good  feeling  amongst  the 
chemists'  assistants,  the  general  advancement  and  protection  of  their  interests,  and 
the  relief  of  members  in  case  of  sickness.  The  Association  has  commenced  the 
collection  of  specimens  for  a  museum,  and  formed  the  nucleus  for  a  library  5  several! 
papers  were  read  at  the  monthly  meetings,  and  Baron  Ferd.  von  Mueller,  the  well- 
known  botanist,  who  was  elected  Patron  of  the  Association,  delivered  an  interesting 
address  on  the  services  rendered  to  the  natural  sciences  by  some  pharmacists.  The 
Society  also  endeavors  to  provide  innocent  and  rational  amusement  for  its  members  ; 
cricketing  and  boating  clubs  have  been  formed,  and  arrangements  made  for  quar- 
terly social  gatherings  and  an  annual  ball. 
Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Paris  — At  the  meeting  held  March  3d,  a  com- 
munication was  read  from  M.  Vidau,  military  pharmacist,  on  the  phylloxera^  which 
is  at  the  present  time  attracting  much  attention  in  Europe  for  its  destructiveness  to 
the  grape  vine.     M.  Planchon  gave  a  detailed  account  of  jahorandi^  and  M.  Pog- 
