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EDITORIAL. 
Simpson,  Steele,  Calvert,  Wenzel  and  Downing.  It  was  also  resolved 
that  the  present  Chairman  and  Secretary  be  continued  in  their  respective 
offices  until  a  permanent  organization  could  be  effected  and  the  various 
officers  elected. 
After  various  remarks  from  members  present  relating  to  a  permanent 
association,  the  meeting  adjourned  to  meet  at  the  same  place  at  8  o'clock 
on  Monday  evening,  August  9th." 
It  is  probable  that  this  meeting  will  result  in  an  organization,  and  pos- 
sibly in  time  to  send  delegates  to  the  Chicago  meeting. 
British  Pharmaceutical  Conference. — The  circular  issued  by  the 
general  Secretaries,  calling  i  he  Sixth  Annual  Meeting  of  this  body,  has 
been  received,  and  before  this  number  is  printed  the  meeting  will  have 
taken  place,  on  the  17th  of  August,  under  the  presidency  of  IVlr.  Daniel 
Haub ury,  at  the  old  City  of  Exeter,  in  the  South  of  England.  We  learn 
by  the  circular  that  it  is  proposed,  as  a  new  feature,  to  issue  "an  Annual 
Report  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy,  which  shall  include  notices  of  all 
Pharmaceutical  papers,  formulae,  &c.,  published  in  the  various  pharma- 
ceutical journals  of  Europe  and  America."  This,  if  well  carried  out,  will 
prove  useful  to  the  members,  as  by  the  present  extreme  exclusive- 
ness  of  the  English  Pharmaceutical  Journals,  the  pharmacy  of  the 
United  States  is  almost  unknown  to  the  great  majority  of  the  pharma- 
ceutists of  England,  and  the  same  is  true  of  much  that  is  Continental. 
Percolation  and  other  processes  of  extraction  are  probably  far  better 
known  to  the  mass  of  pharmaceutists  in  the  United  States  than  to  those 
of  Great  Britain,  and  in  some  other  things — suppositories,  for  example — 
they  would  not  retrograde  by  a  more  intimate  acquaintance  with  the  in- 
terior of  Pharmacy  in  America. 
The  new  pharmacy  Act  will  have  had  some  influence  on  the  results 
of  this  meetin<T  ;  bringing  in  a  larger  membership  and  greater  interest 
in  science.  The  circular  says  nothing  about  an  exhibition  coetaneous 
with  the  meeting,  and  the  presumption  is  that  for  the  present  that  fea- 
ture will  be  dropped.  We  shall  look  with  great  interest  for  the  proceed- 
ings in  the  next  English  Journals. 
Pharmaceutical  Instruction  in  Prussia. — We  learn  through  the 
Pharmaceutische  Zeitung  of  June  19th,  the  following  information  con- 
cerning the  study  of  pharmacy  at  the  University  of  Jena.  It  would  pre- 
sent a  formidable  beginning  to  our  students  if  such  a  programme  was  pre- 
sented at  the  outset  of  their  studies.  The  young  student  has  to  apply  to 
the  director  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Institute,  at  present  Prof.  Dr.  Lud- 
wig,  and  present  his  testimonials  of  apprenticeship  and  clerkship  ;  after 
a  short  examination  he  receives  a  testimonial  of  qualification  which 
entitles  him  to  matriculation,  and  this  to  all  the  academical  rights  of  the 
students  of  this  University. 
