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use of the lattcM- is consicleral)ly hamp- 

 ered, however, by the exasperatinq' lack 

 of the fifty-year index, which somebody 

 one day, "unbeknown" to the authorities, 

 tot:)k home witli him and never brought 

 back. 



The set of invakiable Annalcn dcr 

 Chcmic und Pharmacie bas been made 

 complete from volume 79, 1851, to date, 

 by one of the unassuming gifts for 

 which Mr. Ernest Stauffen is noted 

 among the College of Pharmacy trus- 

 tees and friends generally. He supplied 

 last year the twenty-eight double vol- 

 umes missing between 1859 and 1873. 

 that is. vols. 109-164. Of course, for 

 the Library to own the first seventy- 

 eight volumes, which Baron Justus von 

 T.iebig began publishing in 1832 under 

 the title, ''Annalen der Pharmazie." is 

 the great desideratum of our research 

 workers along chemical and pharmaceu- 

 tical lines. But — for that — we shall 

 have to wait until after the War! 



A considerably longer list might be 

 given, and possibly will be given later, 

 of periodical literature more or less com- 

 plete, possessed by the Library, which 

 may well be regarded with pride by the 

 Alumni, and possibly also will be sug- 

 gestive of what might be. from old 

 students or other well-wishers so in- 

 clined, a graceful and well appreciated 

 souvenir of remembrance of the "good 

 old days,"' and an energizing reminder 

 that the new days need a better equip- 

 ment of books, as well as other appara- 

 tus, if pharmaceutical scholarship keep 

 pace and rank with other scientific pro- 

 fessions. Anyway, a list of such wants 

 will gladly be supplied from the Library 

 upon individual application. 



Speaking of pride — lest all the alumni 

 may not have seen a news item in the 



Practical Druggist for October, 1915, it 

 is printed below : 



"The library opens this year with an 

 exhibition of pliarniacoi)oeias — the 

 United States PharmAcopoeia of 1820 

 with its eight later editions and the ninth 

 decennial revision in advance sheets, to- 

 gether with its forerunners. Dr. Crown's 

 Repertory and the l'harmacoiK»eias of 

 the Massachusetts Meflical Society 

 (1808) and of the New York IIos])ital 

 (1816); also a copy of the American 

 Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia, and the 

 pharmacopoeias of seventeen foreign 

 countries in their respective languages. 

 Among the latter one notes with satis- 

 faction the pharmacopoeias of Greece. 

 Russia and Japan in their native dress." 



With such an illustration at hand. Dr. 

 H. M. Whelpley's article in the Decem- 

 ber number of Meyer Brothers' Drug- 

 gist on the L'nited States Pharmaco- 

 poeia becomes doubly interesting. He 

 says, that there are "twenty-three such 

 authorities of national character 4iow in 

 use." 



If all of these do not appear in the 

 show-case, which displays the exhibit, 

 students will find more on the shelves. 

 \i not, that omission may stimulate in- 

 quirv which will lead to further reading 

 on the subject. 



As a matter of fact we do possess the 

 l)harniacopoeias in various editions of 

 twentv-six different countries, not all 

 official at present, however ; and — well — 

 th.at reminds us that we must put down 

 immediately on our "want list" the 

 Rumanian and the two South American 

 i:)harmacopoeias which we lack, so that 

 no alumnus of the College of Pharmacy 

 shall suffer in his pride because the 

 pharmacopoeial collection is not as good 

 as any other in the land. 



