THE PRICE OF MEDICINES. 



1S7O. at present more than ever weighty. Though a dealer in drugs, 

 his position is no longer that of a mere tradesman; onerous 

 duties are imposed, and ample qualifications are exacted. Under 

 these circumstances, it would be unfair to curtail the moderate 

 remuneration he claims ; nor do I believe any such abatement 

 is demanded by either the medical profession or the public. 



LETTEE TO T. N. R MOKSON, ESQ. 

 (Late President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Or eat Britain.) 



4tk April, 1860. 



i60 THE improvement of the Library of the Pharmaceutical 



Society is an object in which all our London members should 

 feel so much interest that I am sure you will allow me to make 

 some remarks respecting a class of works in which the collection 

 appears to be still very deficient. The class I allude to is that 

 of foreign pharmaceutical journals. 



In London it is, according to my experience, no easy matter 

 to refer to some of these works the Libraries of our Colleges 

 and Scientific Societies not usually comprising them. Such 

 being the case, it is more than ordinarily important that the 

 Pharmaceutical Society should possess complete series, and that 

 such series should be strictly and carefully kept up. It must 

 be remembered that no stock is usually kept of the back- 

 numbers of foreign scientific journals, so that deficiencies are 

 not easily made good: hence the importance of rigidly 

 enforcing those rules designed to prevent the loss of volumes, 

 although it is, in my opinion, highly desirable that the Library 

 of the Society should be rich in the periodical pharmaceutical 

 literature of all countries, yet it is pre-eminently so with regard 

 to the journals published in Germany, of the more important 

 of which I annex a list. 



(List Follows).' 



