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FOUR-YEAR COURSE IN PHARMACY

LEADING TO THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, PHARMACY COURSE

In general, this course includes all that is required in the three-year
course, or acceptable substitutes, and, in addition, general physics, a read-
ing knowledge of French and German, and sufficient electives to make 120
credits. An equal number of grade-points, half of which must be earned
during the first two years, is also required. The foreign-language require-
ment is usually interpreted to mean 8 credits of French and 16 credits of
German, to be satisfied by work in either the high school or the university.
A student in the four-year pharmacy course is normally permitted 10-15
credits of free electives. These may be chosen, upon consultation with the
adviser, either inside or outside the department, along any line in which
the student is interested.

PHARMACEUTICAL EXPERIMENT STATION

In accordance with an act passed by the legislature in 1913, a Pharma-
ceutical Experiment Station has been established in connection with the
Department of Pharmacy. The object of the Station, as outlined by the
law establishing it, is two-fold:

(1) To codperate with the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture in the maintenance of the northern station for the
cultivation of medicinal plants and to disseminate such information as may
lead to the proper cultivation of medicinal plants and the production of
high grade vegetable drugs in this state; and

(2) To serve the public at large by codperation with both pharmacists
and physicians in securing for the sick the best medicines that pharmaceu-
tical science and art can provide, and further, by codperation with the
State Board of Pharmacy, the State Board of Health, and the Dairy and
Food Commission, to bring about these results.

The staff of the Experiment Station is made up of members of the
faculty of the Department of Pharmacy. A garden of about forty acres
for the scientific cultivation of medicinal plants and a laboratory for the
investigation of problems connected with the preparation and testing of
crude drugs, pharmaceutical preparations, and chemicals are maintained.
Reports on the work of the Experiment Station are published from time
to time and distributed to persons interested. For copies of these reports
application should be made to the Director.

WISCONSIN PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH FUND

Recognizing the growing importance of research to the science and art
of pharmacy, the pharmaceutical alumni and other friends of the Uni-
versity have established a fund, known as the Wisconsin Pharmaceutical
Research Fund of the University of Wisconsin. The first contributions
to this fund, amounting to $1000, were presented in June, 1917, and ac-
cepted by the Regents in the name of the University. Since 1917, by gifts
and accrued interest, the fund has increased until it now totals more than
$10,000. Half of the income of this fund may be devoted directly to
pharmaceutical research while the remainder goes to augment the principal.
Thus a permanent and ever-increasing endowment for pharmaceutical
research at the University of Wisconsin is assured.