EDITORIAL. 
87 
The  address  of  Mr.  Brady,  as  published,  is  an  admirable  and  appro- 
priate eflfort  to  impress  the  gathered  pupils  of  the  coming  session  with 
the  importance  of  earnest  labor.  He  cautions  them  against  superficiality 
— urges  them  to  be  thorough,  and  to  strive  until  they  master  the  princi- 
ples or  laws  of  that  which  they  engage  to  attain.  We  would  like  to 
print  the  whole  address  for  its  intrinsic  merit  were  it  possible  to  accord 
the  space.  Through  an  esteemed  correspondent  in  London  we  learn  that 
'the  Pharmacy  Act"  will  do  excellent  service  to  the  cause  of  pharma- 
ceutical education.  Enforcing  examination  of  every  future  pharmaceu- 
tist, it  will  bring  all  within  the  influence  of  systematic  training,  and  thus 
fan  into  the  flame  of  knowledge  any  spark  of  curiosity  or  wonder  exist- 
ing within  the  brain  of  a  candidate  for  the  legal  titles  of  "chemist  and 
druggist or  "pharmaceutical  chemist."  Already  the  school  of  phar- 
macy in  connection  with  the  pharmaceutical  society  is  fuller  than  in  any 
previous  -session  ;  nearly  100  students  are  attending  the  lectures  on  chem- 
istry, pharmacy,  botany  and  materia  medica,  while  nearly  50  are  working 
daily  at  practical  chemistry  for  periods  varying  from  three  to  ten  months. 
Before  the  end  of  the  session  it  is  expected  that  from  70  to  80  pupils  will 
have  occupied  benches  in  the  laboratories.  Classes  for  study  are  also  being 
formed  in  many  of  the  provincial  towns  in  which  opportunities  for  phar- 
maceutical education  did  not  previously  obtain."  This  is  encouraging  to 
those  disinterested  pharmaceutists  whose  generous  and  persevering  efforts 
have  brought  it  about.  They  have  yet  much  land  to  plow,  much  seed  to 
sow,  and  afterwards  long  continued  and  tedious  labor  to  bestow  in  extir- 
pating the  weeds,  quackery,  ignorance  and  bad  habits,  which  grow  faster 
than  their  seedlings.  Nevertheless  we  hope  they  will  persevere  and  in 
the  end  obtain  the  mastery,  by  giving  to  England  a  corps  of  well-educated 
and  respectable  practitioners,  with  a  freedom  of  action  in  accordance  with 
British  law,  and  without  those  numerous  legal  restraints  that  mark  as 
well  as  mar  continental  pharmacy. 
Pharmaceutical  Society  or  St.  Petersburg. — An  invitation  to  the 
honorary  and  corresponding  members  of  this  Society  to  be  present  at  the 
celebration  of  its  fiftieth  anniversary,  on  the  3d  of  October,  1868,  at  St. 
Petersburg,  signed  by  the  Director,  John  Pfeff"er,  and  Secretary,  Dr.  A. 
Oasselman,  was  duly  received  by  the  Editor,  and  is  hereby  acknowledged. 
Our  Journal. — The  present  number  commences  the  forty-first  volume 
of  this  Journal.  It  has  been  delayed  about  ten  days  beyond  the  usual 
time  of  publication  by  the  printer,  owing  to  the  interference  caused  by 
the  Proceedings  of  the  Association  being  printed  in  the  same  office. 
This  number  is  rich  in  original  articles,  especially  those  read  before  the 
late  meeting  of  the  Association,  and  credited  to  its  proceedings,  which 
will  make  amends  for  the  delay.  We  will  take  the  oportunity  to  earnest- 
ly remind  our  subscribers  that  the  subscription  price  of  this  Journal  is 
due  in  advance;  it  has  never  been  published  with  a  view  to  profit,  and 
