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And  then  there  was  Thomas  S.  Wiegand  (1825-1909)  typical 
of  the  old  school  Philadelphia  clruggist  of  the  last  century,  who  sought 
by  precept  and  practice  to  establish  pharmacy  in  this  country  on  a 
scientific  and  professional  basis;  he  was  elected  President  of  the 
'Alumni  Association  in  1865,  and  re-elected  for  six  consecutive  terms, 
and  was  Actuary  of  the  College  for  twenty-two  years  (1887-1909), 
and  as  the  "Students'  Friend"  was  ever  "their  very  present  help  in 
time  of  trouble."  Many  of  the  alumni  will  recall  how  much  they  owe 
to  the  wise  counsel  of  that  dear  spirit  of  college  days  whom  they 
lovingly  and  with  all  respect  called  "Uncle  Tommy." 
In  1864,  the  Alumni  Association  began  a  movement  for  the  > 
raising  of  funds  for  the  equipment  of  a  chemical  and  pharmaceutical 
laboratory;  by  1867  the  subscriptions  had  amounted  to  nearly 
$5000,  and  in  1870  it  established  a  laboratory  for  instruction  in  prac- 
tical chemistry  and  pharmacy  in  charge  of  Prof.  John  M.  Maisch, 
the  first  of  its  kind  in  America.  In  1872  the  laboratory  was  turned 
over  to  the  College  by  the  Alumni  Association.  In  1876  its  two 
divisions  of  work  were  partially  segregated,  Prof.  Remington  giv- 
ing a  course  in  pharmaceutical  manipulations,  and  in  1878  he  as- 
sumed full  charge  of  the  pharmaceutical  laboratory  (or  laboratory1 
of  operative  pharmacy),  while  Prof.  Maisch  confined  his  instruction 
to  the  chemical  laboratory.  In  1903  an  optional  course  in  dispensing 
was  inaugurated,  and  the  following  year  it  became  a  part  of  the  reg- 
ular course. 
In  the  chemical  laboratory,  Prof.  Maisch  was  succeeded  as 
director  by  Frederick  Belding  Power  (1881-83),  whose  famous  re- 
search work,  later,  in  phytochemistry  in  the  Wellcome  Pvesearch 
Laboratory  of  London  is  known  to  you  all,  and  he  by  Henry  Trim- 
ble (1883-98),  whose  research  work  on  the  tannins  is  classic. 
The  microscopical  laboratory  was  originated  also  by  the  Alumni 
Association,  commencing  with  1882-83,  the  Association  controlling 
the  instruction  in  this  department  until  1894,  when  the  College  as- 
sumed charge  of  it  as  the  botanical  and  microscopical  laboratory. 
In  1899  optional  laboratory  courses  were  established  in  bacteriol- 
ogy, the  study  of  powdered  foods  and  drugs,  fungi  and  fungous 
diseases,  morphology  and  physiology,  and  systematic  botany,  and  in 
1 91 3  bacteriological  laboratory  work  became  a  part  of  the  regu- 
lar course. 
With  the  enactment  of  the  Federal  Food  and  Drugs  Act  of 
