PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 

 OF THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 



Vol. I. 



New York, April, 1894. 



No. 3. 



OBSERVATIONS OF A PHARflACOGNOSIST IN ENGLAND. 



By he;nry h. rusby, m. d. 



An Address delivered before the AUiniui Association of the College of Pharmac3' of the City of New York, 



March 14th, 1894. 



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Mr. Preside7it and Members of the Alumni 

 Association. 

 lyADiEvS AND Genti^emen : As the 

 journey, the results of which I am about 

 to communicate to yon, was made largely 

 in the interests of the college, I feel that 

 my address this evening is somewhat in 

 the nature of an official report, and have, 

 therefore, adopted a somewhat more per- 

 sonal style of narrative than would 

 appear becoming in an ordinary lecture 

 addressed to the public. As the value of 

 one's observations depend largely upon 

 the conditions under which they are 

 made, you .should first be informed as to 

 the objects of my visit to Kngland, and 

 the circumstances under which they were 

 pursued. My objects were : 



I. To study crude drugs, and their 

 commerce, in the London markets, and 

 ^:::^ to establish sources of supply for our re- 

 cr> organized Museum Department. 

 QQ 2. To complete my investigations into 

 '■H the modern history of Cinchona, for the 



writing of the article on this subject for 

 the United States Dispensatory. 



3. To determine a collection of some 

 1,200 species of plants received from Bo- 

 livia, for which no facilities at all ade- 

 quate were to be found in this country. 



My herbarium work at Kew was most 

 successfully and completely accomplished. 

 Not only was the identity of the entire 

 collection accurately established, but the 

 facilities of the great library' connected 

 with the herbarium, probably the most 

 complete botanical library in the world, 

 were fully utilized, the history of all 

 names completely traced out, and the 

 proper ones selected, in accordance with 

 the most correct rules ot nomenclature. 

 Nearly three hundred of the species, and 

 four of the genera, represented were 

 found to be new to science, and the pub- 

 lication of these will occupy an early 

 number of the Memoirs of the Torrey 

 Botanical Club. 



Concerning this part of my work I find 



