Graham Chambers, Paul L. Scott, Dr. F. T. Harrison, Dr. C. R. Sneath, C. D. Daniel, Chas. H. Cowen, J. J. McLaughlin, N. B. Landers, W. H. Elliott, A. E. Ragg, T. Haggarty, J. Andrus, J Henderson, M. Cohen, L. G. Amsden.

Delegates from sister institutions: Messrs. I. Dixon, Toronto Medical College; Geo. Schmidt, Trinity Medical school; A. McDougall, University of Toronto; F. R. Glassford, Osgoode hall; W. Lemon, Royal College of Dental Surgeons; N. H. McGillivray, Knox College.

The Queen's health was drunk with the usual cheers and God Save the Queen, after which Mr. W. C. Tole in a very apt speech proposed that of "Canada," calling on Rev. A. C. Crews to respond. The reverend gentleman spoke of his pride in the glorious heritage of Canadians, and expressed pleasure at the triendly. relationship at present existing between this country and the United States. Mr. Crews closed his speech with an admonition to the young men present to live lives worthy of themselves and their country.

The toast of "The University of Toronto" was then given by Mr. W. A. Coleman in a brief speech, and the vice-chancellor of the institution was called upon to reply.

The Hon. Mr. Mulock in responding to the toast, assured the class that the good feeling expressed toward the University was reciprocated by his Alma Mater, and congratulated them on the evident harmony prevailing between students and faculty of the

College of Pharmacy, without which the educational advantages sought after would be unrealized. He had observed a noticeable improvement and advancement in the work of the school as evidenced in the higher standard of examinations. Canadian institutions appeared to distance all other competitors when their graduates went abroad. This applied to all lines of education. But six years had elapsed since affiliation and yet in that time many men from the College of Pharmacy had made their mark abroad This was an age of post-graduate work and the old idea that education ceased with the College examination was an exploded one. The university was now endeavoring to lead its students in that direction, and such a course might be advantageous to the College of Pharmacy.

Canada is a growing and expanding country and every year more advantageous opportunities are offered within her own borders for graduates of Canadian Universities. If Canada could be lifted up and placed in Europe it would extinguish that continent and part of the Mongolian empire of Asia. The five millions of Canadians had, comparatively speaking, accomplished more in the limited period of their existence than all the millions of the old world. He felt himself better for having been born and having lived in Canada.

Other toasts proposed were:

"Ontario College of Pharmacy," proposed by H. B. Collier; H. Waters and J. H. Mackenzie responding.

"Pharmacy Laws," proposed by P. B. Towler ; W. A. Karn responding.

"The Medical Profession," proposed by James Crouch; Dr. R. A. Reeves responding.

"Our Faculty," proposed by G. A. Wodehouse; Dean Heebner and Dr. J. T. Fotheringham responding.

"Examiners," proposed by C. A. Ramshaw ; Paul L. Scott and Dr. F. T. Harrison responding.. "The Modern Dispenser," proposed by Geo. Evans; Isaac Curry and W. B. Graham responding. "The Manufacturer," proposed by W. A. Warren; C. D. Daniel responding.

"The Wholesale Druggist," proposed by A. H. Waldron; W. H. Elliott and A. E. Ragg responding.

"Our Graduates," proposed by V. W. Meek; N. H. Brown responding.

"Sister Institutions," proposed by W. E. Wismer; I. Dickson, Geo. Schmidt, W. Lemon, F. R. Glassford, Alex. McDougall and N. H. McGillivray responding.

"The Ladies," proposed by J. W. Browne; L. G. Amsden responding.

"Ourselves," proposed by E. A. Dickson ; H. A. Clemens and J. H. McCrostie responding.

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The students made merry until a late hour. excellent musical programme, contributed by the students, enlivened the period of speech-making.

The committee which had charge of the banquet was composed as follows: Dean Heebner, HonPres. ; E. L. Ebbels, president; W. A. Coleman, first vice; G. A. Wodehouse, second vice; G. H. Alpin, E. N. Potter, E. A. Dickson, J. M. Langdon, W. C. Tole, P. B. Towler, R. H. McDuffie, treasurer; Jas. Browne, secretary.

MONTREAL College OF PHARMACY.

ANNUAL CLASS BANQUET.

On Thursday the 9th of February the annual dinner took place at the Balmoral Hotel under the presidency of Mr. Hercule Guerin, and as usual with the functions undertaken by the Students' Association it was a success.

Quite a number of pharmacists were in attendance, but some of those who are always present at such meetings were absent, having been called to Quebec on account of the amendment before the Legislature. Amongst these were Messrs. Williams, J. E. Morrison, S. Lachance, E. Muir and others.

Letters of excuse were received also from Hon. Israel Tarte, Marchand, Flynn and Guerin.

After the menu had been gone through, speechmaking was in order, and the list of toasts was taken up. After the toast of the Queen. Mr. Barollet proposed "Pharmacy" in an able speech, which was replied to by Mr. W. F. Chapman, President of the College, in felicitous terms.

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The usual toasts of "Our Professors, "Our Guests," "The Press," and "The Ladies" were proposed in eloquent speeches by Messrs. Bisaillon, Paul Leduc, Pierre Leduc, A. Paquette and others. Professors Reed and Lecours replied for the Faculty. Mr. Sutherland of Bishop's College replied for the guests.

Musical selections were rendered by Messrs. Bisaillon, Mount, Fisher and Germain, who added greatly to the success of the meeting.

The President, Mr. Hercule Guerin, filled his arduous position in a most creditable manner, and to him much of the success of the dinner is due.

The organizers of the meeting who are to.be congratulated on the way the dinner was carried out, are Hercule Guerin, president; J. B. Bisaillon, vice-president; N. Bourbonniere, secretary; E. Destout, treasurer; Paul Leduc, Pierre Leduc, E. Meunier, and A. Goyer, committee.

MEETING OF WHOLESALE DRUG JOBBERS.

A meeting of the Wholesale Jobbers was held in the council room of the Board of Trade, Toronto, on Tuesday, Feb. 21st.

The trade was well represented, the following being present C. McD Hay, of Lyman Bros. & Co. ; R. W. Elliot and W. S. Elliot, of Elliot & Co.; Messrs. Arthur Lyman, of Lyman Sons & Co.; Rutherford and Niblett, of J. Winer & Co. ; Knox and Clarkson, of Lyman Knox & Co.; Watand Mattinson, of Kerry Watson & Co.; Tinling, of Archdale Wilson & Co.

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Matters pertaining to the wholesale jobbing interests occupied the time of the meeting. Among the items of importance discussed was the matter of "The Rebate Plan," and a resolution was passed unanimously endorsing the plan and agreeing to hold strictly to existing conditions.

It was also agreed to ask those proprietors who have not yet adopted the plan to do so at their earliest convenience.

HERE'S A HINT.

A young lady in a small Indiana town gave a party, and served to her guests that popular delicacy, the toothsome popcorn ball. Unfortunately, however, the contents of a large bottle of Dr. Somebody's liver pills had found their way into the confection, and as the guests were hungry and ate freely, the result was rather startling. Some were compelled to remain over night, others, who started for home, were constrained to tarry by the wayside. The hostess says some spiteful enemy must have put the medicine into the corn balls, how could it have been otherwise, for the bottle of pills was always kept in a special medicine chest. All sorts of laxative confections have been placed on the market of late years, but medicinal popcorn balls is a new idea. -Pharm. Era.

Selected Papers.

Pioneers of Medicine in the Province of Quebec.

BY W. H. DRUMMOND, M.D.

Mr. President and Gentlemen:

Meeting as we do, here in Quebec, the very cradle of our nationality, the place and the occasion is I think, peculiarly appropriate for recalling to your memory a few of the old-time worthies of our profession; the men who were first to plant the Æsculapian banner on the soil of Canada. It is difficult to write or say anything about the ancient city of Quebec, without picturing some of the great events which have occurred in her history, for history surrounds us on every side, from the banks of the St. Charles, where Jacques Carties held his conference with King Dannacoca and erected the sacred emblem of christianity, to the plains of Abraham where fell tl'e gallant Wolfe and chivalrous Montcalm—but I must forbear, and pass on at once to the subject in hand.

It was indeed a motley crew that followed in the train of the French merchants, who were first attracted by visions of the fabulous wealth to be acquired in trading with the aborigines of the New World; warriors fresh from the battlefields of Europe; men of the proudest lineage of France, and who had breathed the atmosphere of courts, missionaries whose souls were fired with zeal at the alluring prospects of evangelization awaiting in the forests of America; and adventurers, daring as ever followed the standard of William of Normandy. Picture to yourselves if possible, the harbor of Port Royal, or what is now Nova Scotia, on the morning of July 27th 1606. There is unusual bustle and excitement down by tne shore, where the little ship "Jonas," commanded by Captain Poutrincourt, is engaged in discharging her complement of passengeers, mostly hailing from La Rochellee. Among the band of newly arrived immigrants there is one sturdy figure which I want you to study well, for it is the figure of Louis Hébert, the pioneer physician of Nouvelle, France.

We can imagine this young fellow fresh and enthusiastic, as he strides along, gazing with curious and occassionally amused eyes, on the strange sights surrounding him on every side, and startled when andressed by some wild looking Coureur de Bois or fur-trader whose semi Indian attire, and savage bearing, seemed so inharmoniously to bleud with the lenguage of France.

From what we are told by L'Escarbot, the histor. ian of the expedition, very little if any serious work was done at Port Royal during the succeeding fall and winter. Hunting and feasting, in which doubtless our great grandfather bore his part, were the chief occupations of the little colony, and it was only when the wine and kindred supplies became exhausted, that the associates of the "Jonas" dropped into the current setting towards Quebec, and with them drifted in the following spring, Dr. Louis Hébert.

Quebec at this time and even for some years before, had been merely a fur-trading centre, frequented by roving bands of Frenchmen, who came barter with the Indians.

sicia, seems also to have engaged in ordinary business enterprises, for we are told by Abbé Ferland that he "began in 1617, to grub up, and clear the ground, which forms the site of the present Catholic Cathedral and Seminary, and constructed a house and the first mill erected in the colony," thus becoming not only the premier citizen of Quebec, but also of all Canada-and here it may be well to note that the first time a notary's services were put into requisition in Canada, was at the instance of the heirs of Hebert the physician-thus proving that in this country, the profession of medicine ante-dated that

of law.

Contemporary with Hèbert was the surgeon Bonnerme, who came with Samuel de Champlain, when the latter founded Quebec, in 1606. Evidently all was not peace in the camp of Champlain, for shortly after his arrival some of his followers hatched a murderous plot against the life of the great navigator. The scheme, however, leaked out, the ring-leader was arrested, found guilty, and executed. In some way or other Bonnerme became mixed up in the matter, and suffered imprisonment, but subsequently his innocence being proved, he was honorably acquitted, our profession thereby fortunately avoiding the distinction of contributing to the first judicial hangIng held in Canada. Dr. Bonnerme's existence in the colony was a comparatively short one, for he died of scurvy, the universal scourge, in less than two years later.

It is difficult to glve the exact year in which the well-known Dr. Robert Giffard settled at Quebec, but we do know that 1634 saw the historic Seigniory of Beaufort founded by Giffard, who in becoming the first settler in rural Canada, also became the first Canadian habitant. At Beauport he lived to a frosty old age, and many of the leading families of French-speaking Canada proudly recall their descent from Robert Giffard the physician, and first of Canadian Seigneurs.

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The French co-operative society for the manufacture of iodine and its products, which has now been in operation two years, reports a profit of over $3,500 for the current year. Last year there was a deficit of nearly the same amount, so that the shareholders are now encouraged to keep on with the work as everything now points to success.

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All communications for the Optical Department should be addressed to

L. G. AMSDEN, 34 Adelaide St. W.

From numerous enquiries received regarding the best way of arranging an optical department, and from observations made during a recent trip among the optical trade, I am assured that due importance has not been given to this feature of an optical outfit. Many opticians are content to find a space of fifteen or twenty feet, and hang their test type at one end or lean it against the prescription counter, and locate their trial case on a packing case at the other and they are ready for business.

This is a great mistake, which will go far toward neutralizing any ordinary amount of ability as a refractionist.

It has two features that are bad. First, the appearance is so non-professional that the public naturalty sum up the situation to indicate that the optical department of your business is so decidedly a side issue, that the chances of getting good optical work are very slim.

You bestow careful attention on your prescription utensils, your shelves with their rows of fancy decorated bottles worthy of an art pottery, but for the eye work "any old place" that is large enough and light enough. If you do not consider the optical feature of sufficient importance to warrant any attention to the proprieties, how can you expect the public to give it any more concern than you do yourself.

Then there is the question of results, which, after you have induced your customers to overlook the unfavorable appearances, are largely affected by the conditions under which you conduct your examination.

Seated in a public part of your store with those who pass in and out bestowing curious glances or possibly venturing a remark, you cannot possibly expect to retain the attention of your patient, and the answers must be consequently misleading.

Possibly the light is shaded by customers passing in and out, consequently the visual acuteness will show a variation. Your own attention, also, cannot possibly be devoted exclusively to your case while it

is divided with the other departments of your busi

ness.

Complete privacy is a necessity in the higher forms of refraction work. You must be alone with your profession and your patient.

A small amount of space and correspondingly small expense is all that is necessary to arrange a model optical room. Four feet wide by twenty two in length, with walls and ceiling painted or papered a dead black, entirely bereft of pictures or other ornamentation, constitutes an ideal refraction room,

The type should hang at right angles to the line of vision and of equal length with the patient's head, and two or more sets should be kept convenient for changing when one is becoming too well known. A very convenient holder can be made out of an ordinary wooden box by fastening a type card on each face and passing a rod through the centre on which it can revolve by means of a wire or string connected with the operator.

The lights should be arranged to shine on the type while being screened from the patient; whether artifical or sunlight it should be as nearly uniform as

possible. Attention can well be bestowed upon an operating chair. Frequently examinations are long and tedious, and anything that is conducive to the comfort of the patient will assist materially in arriving at sound conclusions and accurate diagnosis.

Finally the moral effect of a well arranged and scientifically constructed optical room goes such a long way towards producing in the mind of your patient that feeling of awe and confidence in sublime art and its advocate-yourself-that the case is half fitted before begun and they may possibly not recover in time to raise even a mild protest against a good heavy charge.