PREFACE. 



Tea collections in this museum represent to a certain extent 

 the history of pharmacy in this country for the last thirty years. 

 Many of the specimens are those which have at different pe- 

 riods served to illustrate papers in the Pharmaceutical Journal. 

 To those papers references have been given, and at the same 

 time attention has been directed to works where fuller in- 

 formation may be obtained, preference having been given to 

 such works as are in the Society's library, and easy of access 

 to students. 



Of several of the works quoted, more than one edition 

 exists; the following are the particular editions to which 

 references have been made : 



Attfield : " Chemistry," 4th edition, 1872. 



Bentley : " Manual of Botany," 3rd edition, 1873. 



Cooley : " Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts," 5th edition, 1 872. 



Dana : "Mineralogy," 5th edition, 1868. 



Fownes: " Chemistry," lltb edition, 1873. 



"Histoire des Drogues," 6th edition, 1869-1870. 



" Histoire des Drogues," 7th edition, 1876 (quoted in Collection 



of Animal Materia Medica only) . 

 King: "American Dispensatory," 8th edition, 1872. 

 Pereira : " Materia Medica," 4th edition, 1854-1857. 

 Pomet : " History of Drugs," 3rd edition, 1737. 

 " Treasury of Botany," new edition, 1874. 

 Ure : " Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines," 6th 



edition, 1872. 

 Wood and Bache: " United States Dispensatory," llth edition, 



1858. 



References have been made to a collection of old English 



