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No. IV. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
Introductory Lecture, delivered in the Chemical Hall of the Uni- 
versity of Maryland, October 31st, 1837. By William 
R. Fisher, M. D., Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy, 
Graduate and Associate Member of the Philadelphia Col- 
lege of Pharmacy. ..... 269 
Pharmaceutic Notices. No, xiv. By Augustine Duhamel. . 291 
Purification of Cotton Oil, . . . . .297 
Some remarks on the Oil of Wild Cherry Bark, By William 
Procter, Jr. . . . . . , 298 
On a new species of Tacca. By Thomas Nuttall, Esq, . 305 
SELECTED ARTICLES. 
Observations on the present state of Pharmacy in Germany, By 
Robert Kane, M. D, . . . , .309 
Extract from a Letter from Mr. William Gregory to M. Robiquet, 
upon Eblana, ...... 316 
Pharmacopcfiia of the Royal College of Physicians. London. 1836. 319 
Facts to serve as a Chemical History of Gentian Root. By M. 
Claude Leconte, Paris. . . . , , 333 
Bark of Strychnos Nux Vomica, sold in India for the Rohun, or 
Swietenia Febrifuga, ..... 345 
Minutes of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. 347 
Miscellany . 349 
