PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 169 
<< To the President and Members of the Philadelphia Col- 
lege of Pharmacy. 
Gentlemen, — Believing that the object of our Institution 
is the promotion of enlightened Pharmacy in this country, and 
particularly in this city, and that the officers of the College 
hold it their duty as well as pleasure to contribute to that end 
in their exertions in behalf of the Institution, we, the under- 
signed, some of its members, respectfully solicit your atten- 
tion to the following remarks and accompanying proposition, 
the granting of which we believe will conduce much to the 
welfare of the abstract interests of the College, and be the 
germ of anew era in its annals. In taking a cursory view of 
the minutes of the Society of Pharmacy at Paris, as published 
in their Journal, we find their meetings occupied, indepen^ 
dently of the more ordinary concerns of the Society, with dis- 
cussions on subjects of science and the arts, connected with 
their profession, and which constitute the most interesting 
portion of their sessions. At these meetings the improve- 
ments which are daily taking place in Pharmaceutic Science 
are first brought forward, the interests of the profession dis- 
cussed, and a general friendly feeling cultivated among the 
members of the Society. 
In the new Pharmaceutic Society of Great Britain, 
instituted only a few months since, the proceedings of the 
Pharmaceutic meetings, which are held monthly, for the dis- 
cussion of scientific subjects connected with Pharmacy, form 
already a prominent feature of the institution, and the papers 
which are read at those meetings, are the most interesting 
portion of the Pharmaceutical Transactions published under 
its auspices. 
We call your attention to these facts more from the evi- 
dence they afford of the activity of Pharmaceutists in Europe, 
than to draw a comparison unfavorable to ourselves ; because 
from the youth of our Institution and the want of legislation 
in its favor, such striking evidence could not be expected. 
Yet we believe that it is by no means impossible or difficult 
