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and Botany, who yearly submit to strict investigation the 
condition of every apothecary's shop in the district. We 
know that there is in this country a similar examination, but 
it is a mere matter of form; the results are never known, at 
least, publicly; and the punishment is of too ridiculous a 
nature ever to be inflicted. In Germany, however, it is quite 
a different matter: each shop is separately the subject of a 
report, comprising the details of the size of the shop, states of 
drawers, glass cases, the number of rooms, the number of pupils, 
the nature of the library which the apothecary possesses, of 
the laboratory, the age, quantity, and condition of every single 
medicine. I cannot trespass so much upon your patience 
as to attempt the description of the items of such a report, 
but I am fortunately enabled to present the scaffolding of one, 
which will give a good idea of it. The labour of making out 
such reports for a district, is of course immense; and my 
friend, Professor Wackenroder, of Jena, has had printed, in a 
tabular form, all important heads, which, thus arranged, require 
only to be filled up. A copy of his programme, which he 
kindly presented to me, I submit to the examination of the 
meeting, having first written under the German heads the 
corresponding English words, as there may be some gentle- 
men to whom the vernacular may be more accommodating 
than that foreign language. It will be seen, that there is 
scarcely a conceivable subject in connexion with an apothe- 
cary's laboratory and shop, which does not enter into the 
list, and is allowed full room for comment. 
Submitted to so rigid an inspection, it need not create sur- 
prise that a shop should frequently give occasion to an 
unfavourable report of its condition. In that case, the owner, 
if it be his first ofience, is severely reprimanded. If he be a 
second time detected, a pecuniary fine is inflicted to a consi- 
derable amount, but varying in proportion to the importance 
of the shop, and the more or less grave nature of the offence. 
On his being a third time denounced, he is suspended, his 
license to hold a shop is removed, and the concern becomes 
legally confiscated to the state; but, in fact, he always obtains 
