278  Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations.  {Am-£^T\^aiTm- 
number  of  the  graduates  ;  and  the  time  seems  to  be  near  at  hand  when  that 
custom  will  be  entirely  abandoned. 
St.  Louis  College  of  Pharmacy. — At  the  annual  meeting  held  March  28th, 
the  following  officers  were  elected  :  President,  H.  E.  Hoelke  ;  Vice-President, 
Edmund  P.  Walsh  ;  Treasurer,  Solomon  Boehm  ;  Secretary,  Dr.  John  C.  Falk  ; 
Corresponding  Secretary,  G.  H.  Chas.  Klie.  Board  of  Trustees  :  Henry  Braun 
Henry  W.  Scheffer,  H.  Frielingsdorf,  Charles  Gietner,  H.  F.  A.  Spilker  and 
Adolphus  Braun.  The  next  lecture  course  will  be  opened  in  the  new  college 
on  Lucas  Place.  The  excavations  and  foundation  walls  of  the  building  are 
finished,  and  the  superstructure  will  be  both  handsome  and  commodious. 
The  Commencement  was  held  at  Memorial  Hall,  March  31st.  The  gradu- 
ating class  numbered  47,  as  follows  :  Frank  H.  Ameling,  Wm.  F.  Anger- 
mueller,  Samuel  Earnest  Barber,  William  Baron,  Emil  C.  Behrens,  Charles  E. 
Bennett,  Augusta  A.  Bock,  Jerome  C.  Carr,  Arthur  L.  Cason,  William  C. 
Dirmeyer,  Robert  A.  Doyle,  Elbert  Dunlap,  Louis  A.  Fischer,  Fred.  H.  Fricke, 
Herman  G.  Fritz,  Charles  F.  Geiger,  Wm.  C.  Haman,  Max  P.  Heinrich,  Albert 
D.  Horstman,  William  F.  Ittner,  Henry  Keim,  Joseph  Kelley,  Joseph  F.  Lager, 
Fred.  R.  Lehman,  Wm.  H.  Lemmon,  Wm.  F.  Lindemann,  Andrew  S.  Ludwig, 
William  B.  McDonald,  Robert  F.  Miller,  Ambrose  Mueller,  Sterling  P.  Randall, 
Edward  B.  Reed,  Edward  C.  Reisse,  Carl  M.  Renkert,  John  F.  Reuter,  John 
Riemann,  Nathan  Saenger,  Edward  W.  Sasse,  Ernst  .Louis  Semsrott,  Charles  F. 
Soldan,  Jr.,  Charles  E.  F.  Streutker,  John  H.  A.  Temm,  Louis  W.  Temm,  Charles 
R.  Trickey,  Frederick  O.  Voss,  Ernst  A.  Winkelmann,  Theodore  M.  Young.  The 
following  prizes  were  awarded  :  The  Alumni  Gold  Medal  to  Wm.  H.  Lemmon, 
New  Albany,  Ind. ;  the  College  Silver  Medal  to  Augusta  A.  Bock,  Smithton, 
111.;  the  Oldberg-Wall  prize  to  Chas.  F.  Geiger,  Boonville,  Mo.;  for  the 
best  examination  in  pharmacy  to  Wm.  F.  Angermiiller,  St.  Louis  ;'  for  the 
best  examinations  in  practical  pharmacy  to  Ambrose  Mueller,  of  St.  Louis,  and 
Wm.  B.  McDonald,  Montreal,  Can.;  for  the  best  examination  in  Practical 
Chemistry  to  Chas.  F.  Soldan,  Jr.,  Macon,  Mo.,  and  for  the  best  junior  exami- 
nation to  George  C.  Boyd,  Blandville,  Ky.  .  Valedictory  addresses  were  deliv- 
ered by  Prof.  O.  A.  Wall,  M.D.,  Ph.G.,  on  the  part  of  the  faculty,  and  by 
Sterling  P.Randall,  Ph.G.,  on  behalf  of  the  class.  "No  flowers"  was  the 
motto  at  the  bottom  of  the  plain  but  handsome  invitation  cards  sent  out,  and 
there  were  no  flowers. 
The  Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy  held  its  fortieth  annual  commencement 
April  12th.  at  Harris's  Academy  of  Music,  when  President  Louis  Dohme  con- 
ferred the  degree  of  Graduate  of  Pharmacy  upon  the  following  candidates  : 
James  Robert  Allen,  Geo.  M.  Abendschein,  J.  Harry  Beckley,  G.  Clinton 
Blades,  R.  Kent  Blair,  William  W.  Bowers,  S.  Blair  Caldwell,  E.  Menotti 
Callaghin,  William  D.  Cawley,  Henry  Randolph  Chears,  Edward  C.  Esslinger, 
W.  Ashton  Evans,  E.  D.  Fisher,  John  M.  Heard,  Edward  Hoffmeister,  John 
Philip  Irwin,  James  W.  Jeffries,  J.  F.  Charles  Klepper,  Harry  Lightner  Leeke, 
Emil  Lindemann,  M.  J  McAvoy,  Charles  L.  Meyer,  Daniel  L.  Miller,  Charles 
H.  Mills,  Rollins  Mullikin,  Eduard  Ouandt,  Walter  Leak  Richardson,  Walter 
Scott,  J.  E.  Seebold,  Moses  Sexton,  W.  Spedden  Seymour,  J.  Frank  Starling, 
Gustav  Charles  Thieme,  Geo.  A.  Van  Lear,  Wm.  B.  Van  Lear,  Charles  W. 
Vogel,  Frank  E.  Wagner,  C.  Milton  Wells,  Henry  Halstead  Wyer. 
