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_ druggists’ journals that “the pharmaceutic profession 
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to the then proposed New York garden). As scien- 
tifie principles become more and more extensively 
incorporated into the practice of pharmacy, there is 
increased recognition of the necessity for a practical 
Perea with the sources of our drugs. This 
oes not of necessity imply an extensive knowledge of 
theoretic botany, desirable as that is, but a thorough 
personal acquaintance with medicinal plants is of the 
eatest value to him who must daily discriminate 
against substitutions, eres tions, inferior varieties 
and collections and deteriorated sa mples. The ideal 
Bipbortanity for culti tvating this fee Me is in the 
botanic garden, where we have _ brought together for 
immediate comparison n the doub under con- 
sideration in a living state, ae where the characters 
thus observed can be followed up closely in the her- 
bart ; Oa aa 
i 8 an 
appearance which the specimen under study may have 
undergone during its preparation will be likely to be 
matched by a corresponding change in oe Hands, 
and besides the museum material here to, 
which is most readily utilized by the S eeivnice if 
p in j iate ion with the herb: 
kept boxed in im connection ar 
ium tesa a set of histologic oa aye ought to 
= ing not only 1 ues of each 
pr pogo can be made from the fragmentary 
drug, o hak g ood sections are often citeled with 
difficulty, while ‘the mode of fragmentation is some- 
times characteristi 
Today nearly al students are taught not only to 
observe, but to record their observations, both in 
writing and pee of sketches. The allo al bot- 
