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be  gotten  up  by  and  be  the  property  of  the  college.  After  explana- 
tion by  the  Dean  the  matter  was  referred  to  a  committee,  consisting 
of  the  President  and  the  Dean,  with  power  to  act. 
A  letter  was  read  from  Messrs.  Lange  &  Co.,  Tokio,  Japan,  ex- 
pressing appreciation  of  the  honor  conferred  upon  one  of  their 
countrymen,  Professor  Nagai,  in  electing  him  to  honorary 
membership. 
William  L.  Swartz  was  elected  to  active  membership  and  Felecio 
Paterno  to  associate  membership. 
C.  A.  Weidemann,  M.D., 
Recording  Secretary. 
PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
DECEMBER. 
The  third  of  the  series  of  Pharmaceutical  meetings  of  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy  was  held  on  Tuesday  afternoon,  De- 
cember 15,  at  three  o'clock,  with  William  L.  Cliff  e,  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  in  the  chair. 
Communications  were  read  by  the  Secretary  from  John  C.  Wallace, 
Chairman  of  the  Legislative  Committee  of  the  Pennsylvania  Pharma- 
ceutical Association ;  State  Senator  Ernest  L.  Tustin ;  Mahlon  N. 
Kline,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Legislation  of  the  National 
Wholesale  Druggists'  Association ;  Louis  Emanuel,  President  of 
the  Pennsylvania  Board  of  Pharmacy ;  B.  E.  Pritchard,  of  the 
Western  Pennsylvania  Retail  Druggists'  Association,  Inc. 
The  first  paper  on  the  program  was  on  "  The  Proposed  New 
Medicine  Bill  for  Pennsylvania  "  by  Dr.  Plenry  W.  Cattell,  who 
first  spoke  of  the  desirability  of  active  co-operation  between  the  medi- 
cal and  the  pharmaceutical  professions  in  the  way  of  mutual  support 
for  their  proposed  bills  at  the  coming  session  of  the  Legislature. 
Attention  was  called  to  the  fact  that  under  Frederick  II,  in  124.1, 
there  existed  in  the  Two  Sicilies  a  medical  and  pharmacy  Act  which 
was  framed  on  such  broad  lines  that  it  might  serve  as  a  model  for 
even  the  present  time.  For  the  medical  profession  a  preliminary 
education  of  three  years  in  logic,  or  what  would  now  correspond  to  a 
collegiate  course,  five  years  in  the  actual  study  of  medicine  and 
surgery,  and  one  full  year  devoted  to  medical  practice  with  advice 
