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mission  held  a  protracted  meeting  in  the  city  of  Berlin,  and  it  was  the  intention 
to  further  the  work  to  such  an  extent  that  merely  the  final  editing  should 
remain,  which  will  be  done  under  the  supervision  of  the  Health  Office  of  the 
Empire. 
Prohibition  of  Secret  Remedies. — It  is  well  known  that  in  Germany  the  sale  of 
nostrums  is  in  various  ways  discouraged  by  the  authorities,  and  to  some  extent 
restricted.  By  a  ministerial  decree  of  August  17,  1880,  the  apothecaries  of 
Prussia  are  permitted  to  sell  such  secret  remedies  which  contain  neither  poison- 
ous nor  otherwise  dangerous  ingredients,  and  the  price  of  which  does  not 
exceed  that  allowed  by  the  legal  medicine  tax.  Quite  recently,  Septem- 
ber 27th,  the  provincial  authorities  of  Schleswig  have  gone  a  step  further,  and 
decreed  that  the  offering  for  sale  at  retail,  and  the  furnishing  of  secret  reme- 
dies be  entirely  prohibited.  It  is  not  likely  that  such  a  radical  measure  will  mate- 
rially affect  the  solution  of  the  nostrum  question. 
The  Pennsylvania  Pharmacy  Board  held  an  examination  at  Philadelphia  on 
October  7th,  and  at  Pittsburgh  on  the  8th.  One  hundred  and  fourteen  candi- 
dates appeared  for  examination,  sixty-three  applying  for  Registered  Pharma- 
cists' certificates,  and  fifty-one  for  Qualified  Assistants'  certificates.  Twenty- 
two  of  the  former  and  twenty-six  of  the  latter  were  successful. 
Archiv  der  Pharmacie. — Profsssor  Dr.  E.  Reichardt,  who  has  been  editor  of 
the  Archiv  der  Pharmacie  since  the  death  of  Professor  Ludwig,  in  January,  1873, 
has  expressed  the  desire  of  withdrawing  from  the  editorial  chair.  That  jour- 
nal being  published  by  the  German  Apothecaries'  Society,  the  directory  of  that 
body  will  have  to  fill  the  vacancy  occasioned  by  the  resignation,  and  have  now 
announced  that,  beginning  with  the  coming  year,  the  editorial  labors  will  be 
assumed  by  Prof.  Dr.  H.  Beckurts,  of  Braunschweig,  and  Prof.  Dr.  E.  Schmidt, 
of  Marburg,  both  well  and  favorably  known  as  writers  on  pharmaceutical 
subjects. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Etude  sur  la  lanoline.    Par  Henri  Galinier.    Pp.  43. 
On  lanolin. 
Les  Organes  secreteurs  des  Vegetaux  et  la  Matiere  Medicate.  Par  Fernand  Jadin, 
Pp.88. 
The  secretory  organs  of  plants  and  Materia  Medica. 
These  two  pamphlets  are  theses  presented  to  the  Superior  School  of  Phar- 
macy at  Montpellier,  for  the  degree  of  Pharmacist  of  the  fiist-class. 
The  first  one  mentioned  contains  a  historic  study  of  the  uses,  preparation, 
physical  and  chemical  properties  and  physiological  effects  of  lanolin,  and  con- 
cludes with  a  chapter  on  the  pharmaceutical  preparations  of  this  substance. 
The  second  pamphlet  describes  the  nature  and  location  of  secretion  organs 
as  found  in  plants  belonging  to  twenty-four  different  families  or  natural 
groups.  The  protracted  investigation  was  undertaken  with  the  view  of  generaliz- 
ing the  results  for  the  various  articles  of  the  Materia  Medica.  Two  well  exe- 
cuted lithographic  plates,  each  with  microscopical  and  diagram atic  drawings 
of  seven  different  plant  organs  illustrate  some  of  the  results  observed. 
