44 AIDS TO THE STUDY OF PHARMACOGNOSY. 
of crude medicinal substances from the vegetable kingdom, how- 
ever, is contained, in the Museum of Economic Botany, 
in the botanical garden at Kew, near London. Less ex- 
tensive, since it is only in process of formation, is the 
botanical museum in Berlin. Collections which are devoted 
to pharmacy in its broadest sense are those of the Pharmaceu- 
tical Society of Great Britain, in their own building in London, 
the rapidly increasing collections of the General Austrian Pharma- 
ceutical Association (Allgemeiner ésterreichischer Apotheker- 
Verein) in Vienna, and those of the School of Pharmacy (Ecole 
de Pharmacie) in Paris.’ Aside from the museum of the firm 
of Gehe & Co., in Dresden, which is worthy of considera- 
tion, the want of a large pharmaceutical centre in Germany is 
to be regretted. The Pharmaceutical Institutes connected 
with the Universities of Germany correspond but little to the 
ideal requirements which should be made of a pharmacognosti- 
cal institution that is equipped in accordance with the times. 
The great international expositions of modern times have pre- 
sented, for the time, highly instructive and extensive collections 
of crude medicinal substances from different countries, of which 
reports have been published,” and in which, e. g., the medicinal 
agents even of the Asiatic nations are also thoroughly illustrated. 
‘ This applies also, to a greater or less extent, to the museums and cabi- 
nets of some of the Schools of Pharmacy in the United States. (F. 
B. P.) 
* For example, the excellent official reports of the Austrian experts 
who were delegated to these expositions. Compare further: Flickiger, 
Schweizerische Wochenschrift fir Pharmacie, 1867, 325; also Archiv 
der Pharmacie, 214 (1879), 1-48 and 97-136. Paul, Holmes, and Pass- 
more, “ Universal International Exhibition,” Paris, 1878; London, 1878, 
pp. 198. Schaer, “‘ Botanischer Congress und Ausstellung pharmaceu- 
tisch wichtiger Pflanzenproducte zu Amsterdam,” April, 1877. Archiv 
der Pharm., 212 (1878), 928. Wittmack, “Die Nutzpflanzen aller 
Zonen auf der Pariser Weltausstellung, 1878; ” Berlin, 1879, pp. 112. See 
also the reports of Dr. Carl Mohr in the Pharm, Rundschau, New 
York, 1885, pp. 57-60, 77-83, 97-100, 126-131, 146-154, 165-170, 198-202, 
227-230, entitled: “ Mittheilungen iiber die medizinisch und technisch — 
wichtigen Producte des Pflanzenreichs auf der Weltausstellung von 
New Orleans.” 
