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quires a rich deep soil and abundance of strong animal manure. They find 
henbane a very precarious crop, aswhenyoungitisalmostimpossibletokeep 
it from being destroyed by insects, and some years they have entirely lost 
it, notwithstanding their best endeavors to protect it. The biennial variety 
of henbane is alone cultivated, and when not destroyed by insects, etc., has 
under the most favorable circumstances yielded at the rate of 1300 pounds 
of good extract from an acre of plants. 
Some inquiries relative to the consumption of such large quantities of ex- 
tracts, induce us to believe that by far the larger portion of them are used 
in the preparation of secret medicines. An agency in this city sold as much 
as 1200 pounds of extract of dandelion to one quack medicine vender, doubt- 
less the proprietor of some extraordinary anti-dyspeptic elixir, or liver pills. 
New York Journal of Pharmacy. — We are informed by a prominent 
member of the New York College of Pharmacy, that a Pharmaceutical 
Journal is about to be published under the auspices of that Institution w T ith 
the above caption. It is to be issued monthly, each number to contain 32 
pages, and to be Edited by Dr. Benjamin W. McCready, the Professor of 
Materia Medica and Pharmacy in the New York College of Pharmacy. 
As an indication of the progress of Pharmacy, and especially as inti- 
mating a revival of scientific interest among our brethren in New York, we 
would welcome the " New York Journal of Pharmacy " as a younger sister, 
instituted for the same object — destined, we hope, for a successful career. 
We will cheerfully join hands with her in the dissemination of pharmaceutic 
knowledge ; in the advocation of a correct system of pharmaceutical ethics ; 
and in the pursuit of measures calculated to elevate our profession, and rid 
its ranks of the numerous pretenders which the absence of legal restraint, 
and the want of a just discrimination in the public patronage, have admit- 
ted and encouraged. 
In the midst of the most numerous community in the country, possessed 
of means of intercommunication with all the world exceeding every other 
American city, the New r York Journal will commence its course under 
favorable auspices, and if she only succeeds in arousing the apathy of 
the New York Pharmaceutists, and in enlisting their talents in the cause of 
science, she will merit the respectful consideration of the whole profession. 
Outlines of Chemistry for the use of Students. By William Gregory, M. L\ 
Professor of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh. First American 
from the second London Edition, by J, Milton Sanders, M. P., L.L. D., 
Professor of Chemistry, &c, Cincinnati. II. W. Derby & Co., publishers. 
The work of Dr. Gregory, contrary to what has been usual with modern 
works on chemistry from the British press, has not been republished here 
until several years after its issue in London. Although well known to many 
