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College  of  Pharmacy. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\  November,  1909. 
October  Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
The  first  of  the  series  of  pharmaceutical  meetings  of  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy  for  1909-10,  was  held  on  Tuesday 
afternoon,  October  19,  1909,  at  3  o'clock.  Mr.  Wm.  Mclntyre 
presided,  and  in  opening  the  meeting  asked  those  present  to  attend 
the  meetings  regularly  and  to  invite  their  pharmaceutical  friends 
to  attend  also,  stating  that  they  could  not  fail  to  find  the  meetings 
both  interesting  and  profitable.  The  program  of  this  first  meeting 
was  an  attractive  one,  on  account  of  both  the  variety  of  the  topics 
and  exhibits,  and  the  timeliness  of  the  subjects  discussed. 
Prof.  Henry  Kraemer  read  a  brief  paper  on  "  Representation 
of  Druggists'  Associations  at  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopceial  Convention 
in  1910  "  (see  p.  522). 
Dr.  F.  E.  Stewart  presented  a  paper  on  the  subject,  "  Shall  we 
have  a  Profession  of  Pharmacy?"  This  subject  will  probably  be 
taken  up  again  at  a  subsequent  meeting  when  more  time  can  be 
had  for  its  discussion. 
Freeman  P.  Stroup,  Ph.G.,  gave  a  description  of  some  of  the 
scenic  features  of  his  trip  en  route  to  the  Los  Angeles  meeting  of 
the  A.  Ph.  A.,  which  was  illustrated  with  about  125  post-card  views 
thrown  on  the  screen  by  means  of  a  reflecting  apparatus  loaned 
by  Messrs.  Williams,  Brown  and  Earle.  The  trip,  starting  from 
Oil  City,  Pa.,  was  made  by  rail  to  Vancouver,  B.  C,  and  attention 
was  called  to  points  of  interest  in  St.  Paul  and  Minneapolis  and 
along  the  Canadian  Pacific  R.  R.  The  trip  from  Vancouver  to 
Los  Angeles,  made  partly  by  water  and  partly  by  rail,  included 
stops  at  Victoria,  Seattle,  Portland,  San  Francisco,  and  Santa 
Barbara,  and  a  number  of  views  illustrating  distinctive  features 
of  these  places  were  shown.  While  in  no  way  pharmaceutical,  the 
account  was  very  instructive  and  gave  those  of  the  audience  who 
had  not  travelled  over  those  portions  of  the  Lrnited  States  and 
Canada  covered  in  the  trip  a  very  graphic  idea  of  the  beauty  and 
wonder  of  their  natural  scenery  and  native  resources,  their  civic 
progress,  and  the  architectural  character  of  the  principal  or  most 
interesting  buildings  in  and  near  the  towns  and  cities. 
John  K.  Thum,  Ph.G.,  gave  abstracts  of  some  of  the  papers 
presented  at  the  1909  meetings  of  the  New  Jersey  and  Pennsylvania 
State  Pharmaceutical  Associations  (see  p.  536). 
A  report  of  the  Richmond  meeting  of  the  N1.  W.  D.  A.  prepared 
