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who  is  frequently  alluded  to  as  the  father  of  pharmacology.  On 
July  2,  1904,  Professor  v.  Vogl  was  tendered  a  public  ovation,  on 
which  occasion  he  was  also  made  the  recipient  of  a  "  Festschrift." 
Professor  v.  Vogl  has  been  connected  with  the  University  of  Vienna 
for  forty  years  as  a  teacher  and  for  thirty  years  as  the  director  of 
the  Pharmacological  Institute.  Much  of  his  work  has  been  done 
along  pharmacognostic  lines,  and  his  publications  in  this  particular 
field  are  numerous  indeed,  including,  as  they  do,  an  uninterrupted 
series  since  1853.  Professor  v.  Vogl's  efforts  to  advance  our  knowl- 
edge of  plant  structure  has  been  repeatedly  recognized.  He  was 
the  recipient  of  the  Fliickiger  medal  in  1894  and  of  the  Hanbury 
medal  in  the  following  year  (1895).  Among  the  numerous  scientific 
societies  that  have  elected  him  to  honorary  membership  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy  is  not  the  least.  This  institution  elected 
him  in  1893  as  a  corresponding  member  and  at  the  annual  meeting 
of  the  college  in  March,  1904,  he  was  elected  an  honorary  member 
ef  the  same  institution. 
Repeating-  Prescriptions. — The  unauthorized  repetition  of  prescrip- 
tions has  been  the  occasion  of  considerable  correspondence  that  has 
been  published  in  the  British  Medical  Journal.  This  published 
correspondence  has  caused  the  Medico-legal  Committee  of  the  British 
Medical  Association  to  propose  a  set  of  resolutions  to  be  discussed 
and  acted  on  at  the  meeting  of  that  association  at  Oxford.  The 
committee  appear  to  believe  that  it  will  be  necessary  to  bring  about 
some  changes  in  the  existing  legislation  and  recommend  that  the 
Pharmaceutical  Society  be  approached  with  a  view  of  having  a  con- 
ference on  the  subject.  The  further  recommendations  of  the  com- 
mittee propose  that  the  physician  indicate  on  each  prescription  a 
time  limit  and  the  number  of  times  that  it  is  to  be  refilled,  and  that 
the  dispenser  be  obliged  to  duly  stamp  each  prescription  every  time 
it  is  dipensed  and  to  refuse  to  refill  the  same  after  the  indicated 
number  has  been  reached  or  the  indicated  time  limit  has  expired. 
(Chem.  and  Dncg.,  May  14,  1904,  page  780.) 
The  metric  system  of  weights  and  measmes  is  still  attracting  con- 
siderable attention,  in  one  way  or  another,  both  in  this  country  and 
in  England.  The  Pharmaceutical  Journal (June  9,  1904,  page  797), 
in  an  editorial  note,  says  :  "  Our  American  correspondent  states  that 
the  action  of  the  pharmacopoeia  authorities  in  ruling  out  every  other 
system  but  the  metric  has  had  the  effect  of  making  the  "  U.S.P." 
