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MINUTES  OF  THE  COLLEGE. 
On  the  contrary,  the  price  of  the  new  Asiatic  opium  admitted 
of  the  best  WUrtemberg  opium  fetching  as  much  as  34s.  per 
pound.  At  this  price  the  earnings  of  a  laborer  would  amount 
to  2s.  6d.  a  day,  which  is  good,  considering  that  old  men,  women 
and  children  could  be  employed  for  the  purpose. 
The  opium  of  this  year  is  much  superior  to  that  previously 
grown.  The  amount  of  morphia  it  contains  is  12  per  cent.,  even 
in  samples  that  are  somewhat  moist. — Land.  Pharm,  Journ.^ 
Oct.  15,  1870,  from  Gewerbeblatt  aus  Wurtemberg. 
llinutes  of  \\t  %\i\\Mi\m  College  of  ||ama£g. 
A  stated  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  was  held 
at  the  College  Hall,  September  26,  1870,  at  3^  o'clock,  P.  M.  Dillwyn 
Parrish,  President,  in  the  Chair,  and  twenty-four  members  present. 
The  minutes  of  the  previous  meeting  of  the  College  were  read  and  ap- 
proved. 
The  minutes  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  were  read  by  Alfred  B.  Taylor, 
Secretary  of  the  Board,  and  approved. 
The  Committee  on  Latin  Labels,  to  whom  was  referred  the  subject  of  a 
new  edition  of  labels,  not  being  ready  to  report,  was  continued. 
The  delegates  to  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  presented 
the  following  report : 
"  The  delegates  appointed  in  June  last  to  attend  the  American  Phar- 
maceutical Association  report,  that  at  the  time  appointed  it  became  ap- 
parent two  of  the  delegates  would  not  be  able  to  attend,  when  the  name 
of  James  T.  Shinn  for  Charles  Bullock,  and  Henry  xN.  Rittenhouse  for 
Thomas  S.  Wiegand,  were  substituted. 
The  gieeting  convened  at  the  University  of  Maryland  about  the  time 
appointed;  E.  H.  Sargent,  of  Chicago,  President,  and  Prof.  Maisch, 
Secretary.  Soon  after  the  meeting  was  organized  it  was  resolved  that  a 
telegram  of  fraternal  greeting  be  sent  to  the  meeting  of  the  British  Con- 
ference at  Liverpool,  then  in  session,  and  in  the  evening  a  similar  tele- 
graphic message  came  from  the  Conference,  which  had  been  sent  before 
the  reception  of  the  Baltimore  telegram. 
The  annual  address  of  the  President  was  listened  to  with  considerable 
interest;  among  the  facts  mentioned  was,  that  the  membership,  without 
the  additions  of  the  present  meeting,  is  set  down  at  83L  The  Committee 
on  Nominations  was  appointed  at  this  sitting.  At  the  second  meeting  a 
ballot  was  held,  which  resulted  in  the  election  of  Richard  H.  Stabler,  of 
Alexandria,  Va.,  as  President,  and  of  Flemming  G.  Grieve,  of  Georgia, 
George  G.  Steele,  of  California,  and  Eugene  L.  Massot,  of  Missouri,  for 
