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EDITORIAL. 
incorporation, but if not sufficiently numerous or advanced to teach others, 
they are sufficiently so to learn themselves. And how, it may be asked can 
it be done? We answer, by adopting a constitution and by-laws ; by establish- 
ing monthly or more frequent meetings for inquiry and discussion on sub 
jects appertaining to their business, or concerning their future advance- 
ment; by adopting a code of ethics regulating the intercourse and conduct 
of the members in their professional relations; and finally by subscribing to 
scientific Journals and standard works for circulation among themselves, so 
as to form the nucleus of a library. Every association of this kind is en- 
titled to send three representatives to the Convention of 1852 ; for the far- 
seeing language of the Resolutions is "from incorporated and unincorpo- 
rated pharmaceutical societies." 
As a member of the Committee for receiving, collecting and communica- 
ting information and suggestions bearing on the Convention, we will cheer- 
fully communicate with parties desiring information, or who may wish to 
have their views thrown before the Convention when it meets.. 
In regard to the utility of the proposed Convention itself, we have no fears, 
provided it is based on a wide spread representation — provided it is compo- 
sed of earnest and sensible men, who aim at the possible, and fear not to 
grapple with that which keeps them from its possession. Before the con- 
tinued voice of such a gathering, quackery, whether professional or vulgar 
would quail — would shrink into the hands of men quackish by nature, and 
the profession, washed of its contamination, could with clean hands and 
clear accents raise their voices against it with an effect, on all but the hope- 
lessly ignorant, that would cripple the most fruitful sources of its present 
success. 
New Lebanon ; tts Physic Gardens, and their Products. — In the last 
number, in speaking of the establishment of the Messrs. Tilden, we promis- 
ed a further communication on the same subject, but in its relations to the 
United Society or people called " Shakers," residing in the same valley. 
During our short visit we received a hearty welcome from Mr. Edward 
Fowler and his friends, that caused us to regret our inability to accept 
their kindly offered hospitality, and to examine more closely than the time 
permitted, their gardens and their arrangements for drying and packing- 
herbs and for making extracts. 
The chief tract of land occupied by the " Society" lies on the right hand 
side of the valley, in approaching the village of New Lebanon, the residences, 
factories and public buildings of the Society occupying a plateau elevated 
perhaps two hundred feet above the high road. As their policy is directly 
cumulative, their lands occupy a large portion of the most valuable soil of 
the neighborhood, and many excellent lots and fields in the village and 
other parts of the valley, amounting, if we rightly remember, to near seven 
thousand acres. This large extent is by no means devoted to medicinal 
