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PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 
for a similar evidence to be given by our own members, in 
time, if proper measures be taken. 
It cannot be expected that the meetings of the Board of 
Trustees are the proper occasions for such scientific discus- 
sions, because in that case all the benefits arising from them 
would be confined to their members: and, on the other hand, 
the general quarterly meetings of the College occur too seldom 
to be of much service. Therefore, to neither of these occa- 
sions can we look for the accomplishment of our objects. 
It is, therefore, proposed that you grant the use of the Hall 
and Library of the College to such of its members as shall 
associate themselves together for the purposes of scientific in- 
quiry, on the subjects connected with Pharmacy ; that such 
assemblages receive your sanction under the title of the 
' Pharmaceutic Meetings of the Philadelphia College of Phar- 
macy/ and that they be looked upon as a legitimate branch 
of the operations of the Institution, viz. : Its scientific meet- 
ings in contradistinction from its business meetings. It is 
further proposed that the members constituting these meet- 
ings be empowered to organize themselves and to enact by- 
laws for their own government, always holding in view the 
interests of the College. 
That all collections of books, specimens, &c, becoming the 
property of these meetings, be considered the property of the 
College; and finally , that graduates be allowed the privilege 
of attending the meetings, although they may not be members. 
Signed Wm. R. Fisher, 
Charles Ellis, 
Wm. Procter, Jr. 
Samuel F. Troth, 
Joseph C. Turnpenny, 
Ambrose Smith, 
John H. Ecky. 
December 27, 1842." 
Whereupon the following resolution was adopted, viz.: 
Resolved, That the use of the Hall and Library of this Col- 
