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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[March 29, 1873.. 
to come, as it were, in forma pauperis upon the 
Fund,—assistance in providing a sound education for 
their children without taking them from their own 
homes. For such ends not only will a large increase 
of spending money "be required, but also a consider¬ 
able augmentation of the reserved funds. So that 
there is plenty of work cut out for the advocates of 
both plans. 
CONTINENTAL EDUCATION. 
Foreign travel, according to Lord Bacon, is the 
appropriate finale to a course of education at home, 
It “ crowns the edifice” of culture. It adds a grace 
and a harmony to the solid substructure of native 
discipline. In a profession cognate to our own— 
that of medicine—nothing is more usual, nothing 
more advantageous, than to supplement English 
training by a visit to foreign schools. Why should 
not the young pharmacist more frequently go and do 
likewise ? The u provinciality ” engendered by our 
insular life and traditions is common to all our pro¬ 
fessions, and receives its proper corrective by a well- 
devised course of foreign experiences. At the close, 
therefore, of the curriculum at home, we would counsel 
the young aspirant to pharmaceutical fame to avail 
himself of the first opportunity to spend a few months 
at some of the continental seats of learning'. France 
is open to him ; so is Italy ; so is Germany. But of 
the three the last named is richer in the men and the 
materials wherewith to deepen knowledge, to cor¬ 
rect prejudice, and to enlarge the mind. 
The pharmaceutical chemist might do worse than 
reside for a session at the University of Leipzig, 
lor example, which, especially since the war, is 
gaining rapidly on Vienna and Berlin in scientific 
attractiveness. Physics, Chemistry, and Botany 
are admirably represented there. In the physico¬ 
chemical laboratory of Professor Wiedemann, the 
student can either obtain or supplement his 
culture in that special branch under the most 
favourable auspices ; while the physical cabinet 
of Professor Hankel and the pliysico-technological 
apparatus under the direction of Professor Marbach 
may also be consulted with advantage. In Chemistry 
Leipzig stands very high. Dr. Kolbe, of European 
reputation, is its professor; and in connection with 
his chair there is the chemical laboratory, one of the 
largest and most practically constructed and ap¬ 
pointed to be found in any seat of learning. Botany 
is not so well represented ; but the deficiencies of 
the Botanical Garden are being rapidly repaired ; 
while there is an excellent Botanical Laboratory and 
Herbarium under Professor Schenke. Life in Leip¬ 
zig is not nearly so expensive nor so seductive as at 
Berlin or Vienna ; while in a hygienic point of view 
it is far pleasanter, not to say safer, than the former, 
and certainly not inferior to the latter. Add to this, 
that all the faculties are ably, and in some chairs 
brilliantly, represented, giving to the academic en¬ 
semble a tone and an atmosphere at once bracing and 
expanding. “For every language one knows,” said 
Charles the Fifth, “ he is so much the more a man 
and the aphorism holds good for the scientific cul¬ 
ture of foreign civilizations, and for the development 
—the intellectual new-birth, so to speak—it can 
vouchsafe. Wherefore, say we to those of our aspiring 
pharmacists who can afford the time and the money, 
“ Try Leipzig.” 
ENGLISH PHARMACISTS IN CANADA. 
At the semi-annual council meeting of the Ontario 
College of Pharmacy on the 5th February, it was- 
resolved that certificates of proficiency or diplomas 
of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, the 
Pharmaceutical Association of Quebec, and the Phila¬ 
delphia College of Pharmacy, should be recognized 
by the College, provided that the holders had been 
four years in business; and the production Y)f such 
diplomas is to be considered by the Board of Exa¬ 
miners under the Ontario Pliarmacv Act sufficient 
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evidence of qualification. At the same meeting it 
was decided to elect Professor Redwood and Pro¬ 
fessor Attfield of London, Mr. H. B. Brady of 
Newcastle, Professor J. M. Maisch of Philadelphia, 
and Dr. E. R. Squibb of Brooklyn, Honorary Mem¬ 
bers of the College. 
The Atlantic cable of 1865 is broken, and specula¬ 
tion are rife as to the cause. In a letter to the Daily 
News , Mr. Highton expresses his opinion that the 
breakage is due to the formation of rust upon the 
iron wire sheath, and the action of this rust upon the 
hemp within, and he points to analogous results in 
the rotting of linen where spots of “ iron mould” 
occur. Mr. Fleming Jenkin, however, combats this 
conclusion, saying an extended experience has shown 
that in submarine cables no such action takes place,, 
hemp in contact with iron lasting perfectly sound for 
twenty years at least, if covered with the iron. At 
present the only thing certain upon the subject is 
that the cable is broken. 
Dr. Henry Bence Jones having been compelled, 
by ill-health, to resign the office of Secretary to the 
Royal Institution, which he has so ably filled for 
many years, it is proposed to acknowledge his ser¬ 
vices by a testimonial in the shape of a bust of him¬ 
self, to be placed in the Royal Institution, and a 
fund is being raised for the purpose. 
Professor Balfour has been appointed Lecturer- 
on Botany to the Edinburgh Veterinary College in 
the place of the late Professor Davidson. 
Berthelot has at length been elected a member 
of the French Academy of Sciences. 
