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j>hop for a time, and who afterwards brought them with her to New York. She 

 ells me that the sheet of blue paper containing prescriptions for cholera cures,, 

 according to the quality of the paper and the character of the handwriting, can- 

 not be placed back farther than 1840-1850, but that the yellow leaf containing 

 recipes headed 5 yrs. (perhaps meaning, for a child five years old?) belongs to 

 an earlier date, 1805-1810. 



As giving a curious insight into the uses of such medicine-chest recipe books, 

 common in some countries, I quote from her letter enclosing these prescriptions : 

 "Now you know even today, if you enter an apothecary shop in Glasgow 

 and give the apothecary a prescription in Latin, he will ask you for what trouble 

 the medicine is to be used. If you say, 'cold,' he will go and get a medicine 

 book and look up 'cold cures.' Then he brings you something different from 

 what your prescription calls for; 'but,' says he, 'it will cure!' At least that hap- 

 pened to me with one I had from Denmark. Now here in the United States a 

 druggist does not do that — he fills it according to the prescription." 



Fourteen volumes and one pamphlet have been added to the Library since 

 the beginning of the year. This number includes four gifts : — "The Plattsburger, 

 1917," with "Compliments of Benjamin Rosenberg, 2d Lt. Inf. U. S. R.," a C. of 

 P. first year man ; "A Text Book of Physics and Chemistry for Nurses," "With 

 the compliments of A. R. Bliss, Jr., '07 and '08," joint author, the well-known 

 editor of "The Mask ;" and two noteworthy contributions from W. H. Schoff, 

 secretary of the Commercial Museum, Philadelphia — one, a reprint from the 

 Journal of the American Oriental Society, entitled, "The Eastern Iron Trade of 

 the Roman Empire," the other, a translation from the Greek, with scholarly and 

 most valuable notes (Phila., 19 15), of the "Periplus of the Erythraean Sea : Travel 

 and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century." This is 

 "the first record of organized trading with the nations of the East in vessels 

 built and commanded by subjects of the Western World." 



A large box of books has recently been sent in to Professor Arny by Mr. 

 James Foulke, for many years a prominent Jersey City druggist, and also a 

 member of this College. The full set of the publications of the American Pharma- 

 ceutical Association from 1881, which it contains, though duplicating our library 

 set, will be a welcome addition to the departmental book collection on the top 

 floor, since, from the library, itself, on the main floor, this is a weary climb that 

 nobody cares to undertake too often during the day. 



Library hours, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and from 3 to 5, afternoons, except on 

 Saturdays. 



