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This article of Dr. Emmet is followed by a description, botanical 

 and medical, of the Liriodendron Tulipifera or American poplar, by 

 Dr. Benjamin Ellis, and is accompanied with a fine engraving ; — to 

 this succeeds an account of IchthyocoUa, by D. B. Smith ; — and the 

 fourth and last original article is a dissertation on Peruvian Bark, by 

 Dr. Geo. B. Wood. These are followed by a number of well se- 

 lected articles, from foreign and other journals, and by the Review 

 of the Philadelphia edition of the Pharmacopoeia before mentioned. 



From the foregoing account of the Journal of the Philadelphia 

 College of Pharmacy, our readers we trust will unite in the opinion 

 that such an attempt to sustain and enlarge the science of a profession 

 so intimately connected with the welfare of society, ought to be am- 

 ply encouraged by the extension of its subscription list to every part 

 of the United States, where drugs are compounded and the quality 

 of them is a matter of interest to the buyer and the seller. 



We have heard with much regret of the death of Dr. Benjamin 

 Ellis, the principal editor of the Journal. He has left we understand, 

 from his many amiable qualities, a painful blank in the circle of his 

 acquaintance. From the able support which he received from the 

 committee, we do not anticipate any diminution of interest in the 

 Journal. 



2. American Conchology, or descriptions of the shells of JVorth 

 America. Illustrated by colored figwes from original drawings, ex- 

 ecuted from nature; by Thomas Say, F. M. L. S. he. Vol I. Nos. 

 1 and 2. New Harmony, Indiana. 



Since the notice, in our last volume, of Mr. Conrad's first No. 

 of American Marine Conchology, we have received Mr. Say's two 

 numbers of a work intending to embrace the whole of American 

 Conchology. It gives us pleasure at all times to see any thing in 

 the way of Natural History, from the pen of so distinguished and so 

 industrious a naturalist. Wishing success to every undertaking inten- 

 ded to illustrate our Fauna, we would call public attention to this un- 

 dertaking which will require the assistance of students of this branch 

 of Natural Science. 



In his prospectus, the author says, " the object of this work is to fix 

 the species of our Molluscous animals, by accurate delineation in their 

 appropriate colors, so that they may be easily recognized even by 

 those who have not extensive cabinets for comparison." 



