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the  German  Apotheker-Verein,  Berlin.  This  is  also  a  quarterly  and 
is  intended,  primarily,  as  a  review  of  current  pharmaceutical  litera- 
ture, particularly  of  such  new  remedies  and  novelties  as  are  intro- 
duced from  time  to  time. 
Pharmacy  and  Chemistry  are  to  be  particularly  well  represented 
at  the  St.  Louis  World's  Fair.  Group  23  is  entirely  devoted  to  the 
chemical  and  pharmaceutical  arts.  According  to  the  announce- 
ments already  published,  this  group  comprises  laboratory  supplies, 
chemicals,  drugs,  pharmaceutical  preparations,  artificial  textiles, 
paints,  pigments,  dye  stuffs,  rubber  goods  and  pyrotechnics. 
In  addition  to  this  there  will  also  be  an  interesting  outdoor 
exhibit  of  growing  medicinal  plants,  made  by  the  Bureau  of  Plant 
Industry  of  the  U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture.  This  exhibit  will 
be  under  the  personal  supervision  of  Dr.  Rodney  H.  True,  the 
Physiologist  to  the  Department  of  Agriculture,  and  will  comprise 
growing  specimens  of  a  very  large  number  of  medicinal  plants.  In 
addition  to  the  plants  actually  under  cultivation  the  Bureau  of  Plant 
Industry  will  also  have  an  indoor  exhibit  in  which  different  parts 
of  plants,  properly  dried  and  prepared,  will  be  shown. 
Weeds  Used  in  Medicine  is  the  title  of  a  "  Farmers'  Bulletin " 
recently  issued  for  gratuitous  distribution  by  the  U.  S.  Department 
of  Agriculture. 
The  object  of  this  particular  publication  is  to  instruct  farmers  and 
others  that  may  be  interested  how  to  gather^and  prepare  a  number 
of  the  more  common  weeds  that  are  used  as  medicines. 
The  Bulletin  contains  31  illustrations  of  the  weeds  described  and 
may  be  had  on  application  to  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C. 
The  History  of  the  Paris  School  of  Pharmacy  has  been  prepared 
and  is  now  in  course  of  publication.  It  is  being  issued  to  commem- 
orate the  centennial  celebration  or  the  founding  of  the  school  and 
is  to  be  quite  an  elaborate  publication.  It  is  to  contain  biographies 
of  the  several  professors  that  have  been  connected  with  the  school 
since  1803,  also  a  history  of  the  origin  and  progress  of  the  school 
since  its  inception. 
A  Histoiy  of  the  Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy,  by  Wilbur  L. 
Scoville,  is  to  be  found  in  the  second  number  of  the  Journal  of  the 
Association  of  the  Alumni  of  the  Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy 
,(March,  1904,  page  6).  From  this  sketch  it  appears  that  the  Massa- 
