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Our  Journal — This  number  commences  the  thirty-second  volume  of  our 
Journal — the  eighth  of  the  third  series ;  and  it  is  with  pleasure  that  we 
congratulate  our  readers  on  the  large  proportion  and  variety  of  original 
communications  it  offers  for  their  acceptance.  It  is  the  wish  of  the  editor 
to  make  its  pages  the  recipient  of  original  observations  from  all  sections  of 
the  country.  It  is  almost  impossible  to  practise  Pharmacy  without  ob- 
serving something  new,  but  comparatively  few  take  the  trouble  to  record 
their  experience  for  the  benefit  of  others.  Our  Pharmacopoeia  is  about  to 
be  submitted  to  a  new  revision  this  year,  by  a  committee  to  be  appointed 
in  May,  1860,  by  the  convention  at  Washington.  Every  new  fact  bearing 
on  the  subject  should  be  brought  forward  in  time  to  influence  their  action, 
and  we  shall  be  glad  to  receive  communications  of  that  character.  Will 
not  our  Southern  friends  give  us  some  comments  on  their  experience  in 
regard  to  the  permanence  (or  keeping)  of  syrups,  fluid  extracts,  ointments, 
and  other  preparations  liable  to  change  by  the  heat  of  their  southern 
latitudes,  and  what  precautionary  measures  they  find  necessary  in  regard 
to  them. 
The  Chicago  College  of  Pharmacy. — We  have  received  in  pamphlet 
form  the  "  Constitution  and  By-laws,  and  list  of  officers  and  members  of 
the  Chicago  College  of  Pharmacy,"  organized  and  incorporated  May  5th, 
1859.  It  was  our  intention  to  have  noticed  the  establishment  of  this  insti- 
tution in  our  last  number,  but  by  accident  omitted  to  do  so.  Now  we  are 
not  only  able  to  do  this,  but  through  the  above  pamphlet  to  speak  from 
authority.  We  have  also  met  with  Dr.  Scammon,  the  President  of  the 
College,  and  Professor  of  Pharmacy  in  the  institution,  who  visited  this 
city,  and  from  whom  we  learn  the  earnest  character  of  the  effort  of  our 
Chicago  brethren.  That  an  association  should  be  formed  there,  is  no  mat- 
ter of  wonder,  but  that  within  the  short  space  of  three  months  an  institu- 
tion should  be  founded,  and  a  school  of  Pharmacy  opened,  under  the 
direction  of  three  professors,  is  certainly  strong  evidence  of  the  energy  and 
spirit  of  the  members,  who  according  to  the  pamphlet  number  forty-one. 
The  Officers  of  the  College  are,  F.  Scammon,  President;  F.  A.  Bryan,  Vice- 
President  ;  J.  D.  Paine,  Secretary ,  S.  S.  Bliss,  Treasurer  ;  with  a  Board  of 
ten  Trustees,  having  four  standing  committees. 
The  faculty  consists  of  James  V.  Z.  Blaney,  M.  D.,  Professor  of  Chemistry ; 
F.  Scammon,  M.  D.,  Professor  of  Pharmacy ;  John  H.  Rauch,  M.  D.,  Pro- 
fessor of  Materia  Medica.  The  lectures  commenced  November  9th,  and 
continue  three  evenings  in  the  week,  for  twenty  weeks.    Matriculation  fee 
