604     High-Lights  in  -History  of  Phila.  C.  of  Phar.     \  ^d^'Szi™' 
SUMMARY. 
The  experimental  conditions  are  given  for  the  determination  of 
camphor  in  camphorated  oil  by  (i)  loss  on  heating;  (2)  by  the  use 
of  a  saccharimeter. 
The  present  investigation  was  undertaken  at  the  suggestion  of 
Dr.  R.  H.  Clark,  and  was  carried  out  with  his  co-operation. 
The  Chemical  Laboratory, 
University  of  British  Columbia,  Vancouver. 
HIGH-LIGHTS  IN  THE  HISTORY  OF  THE  PHILADEL- 
PHIA COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
Joseph  W.  England,  Ph.  M. 
Vice -Chairman  of  Board  of  Trustees,  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy  and  Science. 
The  history  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy — the  first 
college  of  pharmacy  in  the  New  World — covers  practically  the  his- 
tory of  pharmaceutical  education  in  this  country.  From  the  time 
of  its  institution  as  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Apothecaries  in 
182 1,  and  its  incorporation  as  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
in  1822,  it  has  exerted  a  potential  influence  in  developing  pharma- 
ceutical education,  initiating  many  of  its  most  forward  steps,  while 
indirectly,  through  the  daily  work  of  its  thousands  of  graduates,  it 
has  rendered  a  nation-wide  service  for  the  relief  of  human  suffer- 
ing and  the  conservation  of  public  health. 
The  College  was  founded  by  sixty-eight  druggists  and  apothe- 
caries of  the  City  and  Liberties  of  Philadelphia  on  February  23, 
1 82 1,  the  result  being  crystallized  by  the  decision  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  on  February  21,  1821, 
to  institute  a  course  of  instruction  for  students  in  pharmacy  leading 
to  the  degree  of  master  of  pharmacy,  which  decision,  however  dis- 
tasteful to  the  druggists  and  apothecaries,  had  a  certain  ground  of 
reasonableness,  and  aroused  their  dormant  pride  and  self-respect, 
compelling  them  to  take  action  for  the  protection  and  advancement 
of  their  profession ;  and  I  am  told  by  Dr.  Edgar  Fahs  Smith,  of  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  that  "the  University-pharmacy-course 
was  never  given" — which  is  to  the  everlasting  credit  of  that  great 
