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ON THE ANATOMY OE DHUGS. 
The following are incompatible:—Tincture of steel, the mineral acids, concentrated 
solution of potash, fluid camphor in excess, and fluid magnesia. 
I cannot conclude without mentioning, that I think we are much indebted to Mr. 
Schacht for the introduction of his solution of bismuth, and thereby placing at the dis¬ 
posal of the physician a preparation at once elegant and efficacious, and altogether free 
from the objections which usually accompany the exhibition of the insoluble bismuthic 
salts. * 
At its conclusion a hearty vote of thanks was awarded Mr. Howie ; after which the 
Chairman presented him with the Prize, which consisted of the following works:— 
Fownes’s ‘ Chemistry,’ Balfour’s ‘ Botany,’ Waring’s ‘ Therapeutics,’ and Beasley’s ‘For¬ 
mulary.’ 
Mr. Jajees Eeid, whose Essay on Khubarb carried off the Apprentices’ Prize, was 
next presented Avith Balfour’s ‘ Botany,’ and Fownes’s ‘ Chemistry,’ and w'as compli¬ 
mented on his maiden effort. After a vote of thanks to the President, the meeting 
separated. 
PHAKMACEUTICAL SOCIETY, DUKHAM. 
At a meeting of the local members of the Pharmaceutical Society, held in Durham, 
Friday, December 14, 1866, it was resolved: 
“That Mr. John Burdon be elected Secretary, in the place of Mr. G. Eobson, who 
had retired from the business. 
“That the best thanks of the meeting be given to Mr. G. Eobson for his uniform 
courtesy and kindness to his brethren in the trade, extending over a long period of 
years.” 
ORiailirAL AHD EXTRACTED ARTICLES. 
ON THE ANATOMY OF DRUGS. 
BY HENRY B. BEADY, F.L.S., ETC. 
We once beard a naturalist of the old school, one who had done good work in 
his day, declare, that when a scientific man bought a microscope he ceased to 
be able to see with his own proper eyes,—a fine untruth Avith the shadow of a 
truth for a basis. Generation after generation of observers have studied natural 
objects so well, up to the limits of unassisted vision, that the difficulty of finding 
new facts in connection with their conspicuous external forms is a thousand¬ 
fold greater than it used to be, whilst the results obtained in the comparatively 
new and unexplored field of histology are abundant and striking. Phenomena, 
long known and thought to be well understood, are found under this new light to 
bear a fresh and widely different reading ; old systems of classificvation give place 
to newer ones based upon characters the microscope has revealed; entire tribes, 
both in the animal and vegetable kingdom, have become known to us, and each 
little division of science, with any bearing on organized objects, has its histo¬ 
logical department. Thus a work on general histology, in the present day, 
would be a treatise de omnihus rebus; the microscope itself has ceased to 1^ 
looked upon with interest as an instrument, except by the few who concern 
themselves with its optical and mechanical arrangements; things have fallen, 
or are gradually falling, into their proper places, and students in each branch 
of natural science have come to regard the magnifying powers they now possess 
only as a means of seeing something more of the objects they are engaged upon 
than they could do without such assistance. But, from the general mass of 
microscopical observations, it is long before those pertaining to special subjects 
acc[uire sufficient importance or completeness to segregate themselves from the 
