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Yates, James, Sighgatey London. 
Dowling’s large diagram, on rollers, showing drawings and numerical rela¬ 
tions of all kinds of metric decimal weights and measures of both length 
and capacity ; a surveyor’s metric decimal land chain and tape ; a spring- 
jointed metre measure; models and tables for use in teaching the metric 
decimal system in schools. 
CLASS IL 
MEDICINES SIMPLE AND COMPOUND, DRUGS AND CHEMICALS. 
America. 
The committee desire ‘withboth hands to shake hands’ with their esteemed 
American brethren. They fully appreciate the good feeling evinced towards 
them by the collection forwarded 'from across the Atlantic to this the first 
Exhibition of the British Pharmaceutical Conference, nor could it have come 
under better sanction than the name so well known in practical pharmacy as 
that of Professor E. Parrish, of Philadelphia. The list includes :— 
1. Bakes, William C., of TMladeljpliia. 
A volume of American labels, comprising dispensing and other trade labels, 
together with a great variety used for Pharmaceutical preparations. 
2. Parrish, Professor Edward, of Philadelphia. 
One half-gallon metallic pharmaceutical still; a patent gas furnace for 
pharmaceutical purposes ; breast plaster pattern; vaginal and rectum 
suppository trays ; patent vaccinator; sundry interesting pharmaceutical 
preparations and specimens of dispensing bottles and boxes, with illus¬ 
trations of the mode in which medicines are sent out by pharmaceutists 
in America. 
3. Squire and Co., of Cincinnati. 
A variety of pharmaceutical preparations. 
4. Stearns, Erederick, Detroit. 
A variety of pharmaceutical preparations. 
5. Warner, William P. and Co., Philadelphia. 
A handsome case containing ninety varieties of pills, prepared according 
to the pharmacopoeia of the ITnited States, and other recognized formulae. 
The peculiarity which these pills present is, that they are all sugar-coated. This 
plan shows some important advantages, viz., an attractive taste and clean exterior; 
but it is chiefly to he recommended as an effective mode for the preservation of the 
pill from the variable effects of atmospheric change. 
Baiss Brothers, 102, Leadenhall Street, London. 
A selection of choice gums, amongst which are ammoniacum (guttse); 
assafoetida, guaiacum, myrrh, scammony, and tragacanth. Various 
samples of Materia Medica, including anisi sem. stellat.; anthem, ang. 
flor.dupl.; calumbmrad.; cardam.sem.; cascarillee cort.; cinchon.lancifol.; 
dolichos; rhei pulv. E. I.; and ricini sem. Also one chemical, ferri 
sesquioxyd. prep. 
For account*of which see ‘Lancet,’ October 29, 1864. 
Barr and Co., London. 
Cod-liver oil dragees. 
Bass and Son, Hatton Garden, London. 
Liquor sarzee Jam. comp, concent. (1 to 7). 
Until this article was introduced by the late James Bass (now more than thirty 
years ago) the general practice was either to make the fresh decoction, or to dissolve 
the extract in hot water. 
