THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



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Published Monthly under the auspices of the 



Alumni Association of tlie ColieEO of Pharmacy 



OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 



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Vol. III. 



August, 1896. 



No. 8. 



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EDITORIAL. 



Our readers will be glad to know that 

 Prof. H. H. Rusby has survived the 

 perils and dangers of his Orinoco ex- 

 ploration and arrived safely home with a 

 great store of specimens, etc. His usual 

 thoughtfulness for the Ai^umni Journal 

 enables us to be the means of communi- 

 cating to our readers some of his experi- 

 ences, and a preliminary announcement 

 of some ot the results of his labors. 



The Forty-fourth Annual Meeting of 

 the American Pharmaceutical Associa- 

 tion will be held at Montreal, Canada, 

 August 1 2th to 26th. A most attractive 

 programme has been arranged for by the 

 local committee of entertainment, and 

 matters of great importance will be 

 brought forward for consideration and dis- 

 cussion in the different sections. Caswell 

 A. Mayo, 66 West Broadway, member of 

 the Transportation Committee, New 

 York, will gladly give information in 

 regard to routes, etc. William M. Mas- 

 sey, Professor Coblentz, Professor Rusby, 

 Benj. T. Fairchild and Theodore Louis 

 are delegates from the College. The 

 Alumni Association delegates, are re- 

 ported page 182. 



The Editor is not responsible ior the views expressed 

 by the authors of papers, etc. 



Dr. John Attfield, F. R. S.,Ph.D., 

 honorary member of the C. P. C. N. Y., 

 has recently resigned the position of 

 Professor of Practical Chemistry in the 

 School of Pharmacy of the Pharmaceu- 

 tical Society of Great Britain. He 

 has held the professorial chair for thir- 

 ty-four years. Dr. Attfield is best known 

 to pharmacists from his " Manual of 

 Chemistry," which has been the text 

 book of successive generations of phar- 

 maceutical and medical students, and 

 for his work on the " British Phar- 

 macopoeia," of which he is editor. He 

 is succeeded in the professorial chair 



