EDITORIAL. 
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College of Pharmacy at Boston. — Since the announcement in our last 
number, of the movement among the apothecaries of Boston, we have been 
looking for its results. On the 13th of Dec. another meeting took place, at 
which it was " resolved, that it is the unanimous sense of this meeting that 
there should be an institution for the cultivation of pharmaceutical know- 
ledge." " It was therefore voted that a committee of five be appointed to 
consider the subject, and report some draft for the formation of a pharma- 
ceutical society to the next meeting." A committee consisting of Messrs. 
T. Restieanx, H. W. Lincoln, J. Kidder, Jr., and S. R. Philbrick, and D. 
Henchman, were appointed ; the latter declining to serve. We hope this 
movement will be productive of substantial results, and open another arena 
in which pharmaceutical talent may expand and produce its fruits. 
New York College of Pharmacy. — Through the 1ST. Y. Medical Gazette 
for Jan. 1st, we learn that the officers of this Institution have addressed a 
memorial to the Legislature of the State of New York asking a pecuniary 
grant for the benefit of the College as a school for the education of Apothe- 
caries. Our cotemporary remarks : " The memorial is ably written, and re- 
ferring to the fact, that for twenty-one years this College of Pharmacy has 
been conducted by its members without any pecuniary aid from the State, 
respectfully solicts a donation of ten thousand dollars, and an annuity from 
the State of two thousand dollars per annum. The former sum they propose 
to appropriate to the erection of a suitable College building, and increase 
their library, cabinet of specimens, chemical and philosophical apparatus, 
&c. ; while the latter sum they need for the remuneration of their profes- 
sors, who have hitherto served the College with very inadequate pay." 
We are not sufficiently acquainted with the temper of the Legislators of 
our sister State, to form any opinion of the success that such an applica- 
tion is likely to meet with, but for the cause of Pharmacy we hope the pray- 
er of the memorialists may be granted. The pharmaceutical body in the 
city of New York is a large one, and, like our own and that of the other 
large cities, includes many practitioners of very meager qualifications. 
The fees of their School of Pharmacy are already too low, and should not be 
reduced; but with such a capital and income, they could present far greater 
inducements to the pharmaceutical student than they at present can. We 
know well the up-hill struggle that is requisite in building up the reputa- 
tion of a school of Pharmacy, from the long and continued exertions that 
have been made in favor of our own school by the officers and members of 
our College, and we cannot but wish that our New York brethren may 
find some shorter route to success, than that which has necessarily been 
pursued by the pioneer Pharmaceutical School of the United States. 
Philadelphia School of Pharmacy, Session 1850 — 51. — The session 
just passed has been the most successful in the annals of the School, as it 
