THE NEW YORK JOURNAL OF PHARMACY 



iKJoks and journals as the library 

 affords has been a real joy. 



Many have been the times during 

 the past three years that he has "called 

 blessed" the thoughtful, painstaking 

 and generous men of the past eighty 

 years who have made the College 

 library what it is. and as the present 

 librarian, he feels he can best pay his 

 debt to past librarians and other book- 

 loving friends of the College, by calling 

 attention at this time to what the 

 library can do for every pharmaceutical 

 worker around New York. 



It is not his purpose to detail all the 

 books in the library catalogue, nor will 

 he say much of the fine lot of herbal s. 

 dispensatories and c:»ther medical books 

 of the sixteenth and seventeenth cen- 

 turies which our library possesses. 

 These will be worthy of a later paper, 

 especially after the directions of the 

 trustees of the College to properly ex- 

 liibit these in suitable cases, will have 

 been carried out. \\'hat is j^urposed to 

 do at this time is to merely enumerate 

 those books that the librarian would 

 recommend to one seeking information 

 on a special subject as the Source 

 Books, not merely because written with 

 authority, but chiefly because in such 

 books the best references to the litera- 

 ture on the subject is given ; in short, 

 those books which give the most com- 

 plete bibliographies of the subjects 

 taken up. 



As to the use of our library, suppose 

 our inquirer desires information on 

 some pharmaceutical subject ; of course 

 we have the dispensatories, the be^t 

 known text-books on pharmacy, Ha- 

 ger's classic work, practically every 

 pharmacopoeia of the modern world, 

 and last but not least that great work 



Real-luizyclopa.edie der (xesamten 

 Pharmazie. If these do not furnish the 

 information, we turn to the 60 volumes 

 of the Proceedings of the American 

 Pharmaceutical Association or to 

 Beckurt's Jahresbericht der Pharmacie. 

 of which we have the entire ']2 vol- 

 umes. If the original article is desired, 

 the inquirer can consult practically 

 every American pharmaceutical jour- 

 nal and those mostly in complete sets, 

 and in addition, two of the leading 

 English journals, three German and 

 one French periodical. It would be 

 well if we could have the leading drug 

 journal of each of the other European 

 countries and contributions in that 

 direction would be much appreciated. 



If the searcher is after a botanical 

 subject, our library is just as great a 

 pleasure, for not only can pne consult 

 the modern botanical literature, but 

 one can delve into quaint old herbals. 

 The source book of pharmaceutical 

 botau}- is Tschirch's Handbuch der 

 Pharmakognosie, which represents 

 twenty years of labor on the part of its 

 distinguished author, and which is still 

 coming from the press. Its peculiar 

 value comes from its excellent biblio- 

 graphy and man)^ of its references can 

 be verified from the three botanical 

 journals now on our shelves and these 

 in nearl\- ccjmplete form. The yearly 

 progress in botan}- is reflected in the 

 Just's Botanischer Jahresbericht, while 

 the library has a large number of books 

 on the drug and commercial botanical 

 products of special countries, such as 

 Watts' Commercial Products of India 

 and Simmond's Tropical Agriculture. 

 Likewise, we have the leading books 

 describing the flora of each country, 

 including such monumental works as 



