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ited or indiscriminate eulogy, or censure, but, by presenting such a 
view of their labors and merits, as may comport with the limited 
space and means which we may have to devote to such an object. 
Without intending to convert this Journal into a review, or to de- 
part from that simplicity, and matter of fact character, which it has 
been our desire to sustain, we may sometimes advert to what others 
are doing, but always, we trust, with that comity which should ever 
prevail among those who, with enlightened aims and motives of benef- 
icence, are travelling the same road. 
This purpose is consistent with our original design, for, the score 
of volumes by which we are now known to the world, contain numer- 
ous analyses of scientific publications. We have performed this du- 
ty, however, rather incidentally, and it may be that this will be all 
which we can, Consistently with other duties, perform in future. It 
would doubtless be interesting and instructive to most readers, to have 
Presented to them a panoramic view of the state and progress of sei- 
entific literature, and were it in our power to accomplish such a re- 
view with distinctness and discrimination, we should no more doubt 
of its utility than that it is compatible with the primary objects of the 
American Journal. Our pages must still be devoted, mainly, to ori- 
sinal communications. Our ambition has ever been to render the 
Journal eminently national ;—and we are aware that to sustain this 
character, every facility must be afforded for the cultivation of native 
talent, and for the exhibition of the results of native research. 
1. Journal of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.—Edited 
by Benjami Ellis, M.D. Prof. of Mat. Med. and Phar. in the 
Col ® assisted by a publishing committee consisting of Daniel B. 
Smith, Charles Ellis, S. P. Griffitts, Jr., and George B. Wood, 
“ Prof. of Chemistry in the College, &c. Published by the 
College. This is a quarterly periodical, commenced in the month 
of December, 1825, under the auspices of the Philadelphia College of 
Pharmacy > 80 institution which was incorporated in 1822, and which 
Was the first association of the kind in the United States. It origi- 
nally comprehended sixty eight druggists and apothecaries, then about 
‘the number in Philadelphia. Its influence over the habits of 
“pothecaries, and of physicians themselves, within the first ten years 
Of its existence, we are induced to believe, has been decidedly ad- 
wi ots It has been followed by a similar’ incorporation in the 
“ty of New York. An institution of this kind in such a place as 
