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Editorial — Reviews. 
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EDITORIAL. 
NEW  PROFESSORS  IN  THE  PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
When  it  became  necessary  to  fill  the  vacancy  in  the  chair  of  Botany  and 
Materia  Medica  in  the  College,  caused  by  the  death  of  Professor  Bastin, 
it  was  decided  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  to  create  two  new  chairs  in  place  of 
the  old  one.  Dr.  Clement  B.  Lowe,  already  an  Instructor  in  the  College, 
was  accordingly  nominated  to  occupy  the  chair  of  Materia  Medica,  and  Pro- 
fessor Henry  Kraemer,  Professor  of  Botany,  Pharmacognosy  and  Materia 
Medica  in  the  Northwestern  University,  of  Chicago,  to  fill  the  chair  of  Botany. 
Both  men  are  amply  qualified,  by  education  and  experience,  to  fill  the  posi- 
tions they  have  been  selected  to  occupy.  Dr.  Lowe  is  a  graduate  of  Bucknell 
University,  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  and  of  the  Jefferson 
Medical  College.  He  conducted  a  pharmacy  for  a  number  of  years,  and  has 
been  Instructor  and  Quiz  Master  in  the  College  for  over  ten  years. 
Professor  Kraemer  is  a  graduate  of  Girard  College,  of  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy,  of  the  School  of  Mines,  Columbia  College,  New  York, 
and  of  the  University  of  Marburg,  Germany,  where  he  received  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Philosophy.  His  thesis  for  this  degree  was  an  elaborate  study 
of  Viola  tricolor.  He  likewise  had  several  years'  experience  in  the  retail 
drug  business.  In  addition  to  his  lectures  on  botany,  Professor  Kraemer  will 
conduct  the  Botanical  Laboratory  so  successfully  organized  by  Professor  Bastin. 
Dr.  J.  L.  D.  Morison  will  become  Instructor  in  Materia  Medica,  in  addition  to 
his  present  position  as  Assistant  in  the  Botanical  Laboratory. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Binfuhrung  in  das  Studium  der  Alkaloide,  mit  besonderer  Beriick- 
sichtigung  der  vegetabilischen  Alkaloide  und  der  Ptomaine.  Von  Dr.  Icilio 
Guareschi,  O.  6.  Professor  an  der  konigl.  Universitat  Turin,  und  Director  des 
pharmaceutisch-chemischen  und  toxicologischen  Instituts.  Mit  Genehmigung 
des  Verfassers  in  deutscher  Bearbeitung  herausgegeben  von  Dr.  Hermann  Kunz- 
