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PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETINGS  OF  THE  PHILADELPHIA 
COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
OCTOBER 
The  opening  meeting  of  the  series  of  Pharmaceutical  Meetings  of 
the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  for  i9o8-'o9  was  held  Tues- 
day, October  20,  at  3  o'clock,  with  the  president  of  the  College, 
Howard  B.  French,  in  the  chair. 
A  paper  on  the  subject  of  the  "  Cultivation  of  Belladonna  in  Phila- 
delphia "  was  read  by  John  A.  Borneman,  P.D.,  who  has  been  asso- 
ciated with  Mr.  Lewis  Hellerman  in  the  growing  of  medicinal  plants 
for  some  years  past.    (See  p.  1.) 
Dr.  Borneman  presented  to  the  College  a  series  of  six  photographs 
of  growing  medicinal  plants  on  his  farm,  and  exhibited  living  speci- 
mens of  the  following:  Atropa  Belladonna,  Hyoscyamns  niger, 
Conium  maculatum,  Echinacea  angustifolia,  Senecio  Cineraria  {Cine- 
raria maritima),  Calendula  officinalis,  Digitalis  purpurea  and  Nico- 
tiana  Tabacum.  In  reply  to  a  question,  he  stated  that  there  is  no 
difficulty  in  cultivating  belladonna  in  this  locality.  At  this  point 
Professor  Kraemer  called  attention  to  some  beautiful  flowers  of 
Crocus  sativus  which  had  been  sent  for  exhibition  by  Joseph  L. 
Lemberger,  of  Lebanon,  Pa. 
The  celebration  of  the  225th  anniversary  of  the  founding  of  the 
city  of  Philadelphia  by  William  Penn,  which  was  held  during  the 
week  of  October  4,  brought  to  mind  many  historic  events,  and 
aroused  universal  interest  in  matters  historical.  All  places  and 
buildings  in  the  city  of  historical  interest  were  conspicuously  labelled, 
including  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  and  in  addition  to 
the  numerous  meetings,  parades  and  pageants  commemorating  the 
occasion,  various  historical  exhibitions  were  held.  An  exhibit  of  a 
portion  of  the  historical  collections  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy  formed  part  of  a  loan  exhibition  held  at  City  Hall,  and 
was  pronounced  to  be  one  of  the  most  interesting  of  the  series  of 
exhibits.  The  objects  in  the  exhibit  which  attracted  most  attention 
were  a  microscope  made  about  1780  and  presented  to  the  College 
by  the  late  Hans  M.  Wilder,  and  the  Dispensatory  owned  by  William 
Penn,  which  was  written  by  Dr.  John  Schroder  and  published  in 
London  in  1669.  It  is  now  in  the  possession  of  Professor  Remington. 
Thus  it  came  about  to  make  the  historical  collections  of  the  College 
