fSMtorial  JDcpartnunt. 
Pharmacopoeia  Convention. — By  reference  to  page  186,  our  readers  will 
find  an  Announcement  by  Dr.  Wood,  of  the  next  Meeting  of  the  Con- 
vention for  Revising  the  Pharmacopoeia.  The  great  importance  of  this 
Convention  in  giving  authority  to  the  National  Pharmacopoeia  should 
induce  a  general  attendance  of  delegates  from  the  authorized  Medical  and 
Pharmaceutical  bodies.  There  are  certain  points  in  regard  to  the  new 
edition  which  should  be  discussed  in  the  Convention  at  large,  such  as 
Weights  and  Measures,  the  Process  of  Percolation,  the  general  opinion 
regarding  the  extent  to  which  Fluid  Extracts  should  be  introduced,  &c,  that 
the  committee  to  whom  the  labor  of  revision  is  committed  shall  have  some 
idea  of  the  wishes  of  the  profession  at  large.  It  would  be  well  if  the 
President  of  the  Convention  would  ascertain  from  the  Washington  dele- 
gates the  place  of  meeting  in  Washington,  and  have  it  announced  in  the 
Journals  for  April  and  May,  so  as  to  avoid  the  annoyance  to  stranger  dele- 
gates of  not  knowing  where  the  Convention  is  to  assemble. 
The  Jacob  Bell  Memorial. — The  universal  respect  and  admiration  of 
the  character  of  the  late  Jacob  Bell,  President  of  the  Pharmaceutical 
Society  of  Great  Britain,  among  the  Pharmaceutists  of  England  and  Scot- 
land, has  vented  itself  in  the  idea  of  establishing  a  memorial  in  the  form  of 
two  Scholarships  in  the  School  of  Pharmacy  of  that  Society,  and  already 
about  $8000  have  been  subscribed  for  the  purpose  intended.  Even  the 
London  College  of  Physicians  have  taken  part  in  it,  and  have  expressed 
their  approval  of  the  plan.  No  more  appropriate  offering  could  have  been 
suggested  in  honor  of  a  man  whose  sacrifices  and  devotion  to  his  profession 
are  perhaps  unrivalled  in  the  annals  of  Pharmacy ;  certainly  none  which 
would  have  been  more  in  consonance  with  the  feelings  of  the  honored  dead. 
Modes  of  Rendering  Cotton  Fabrics  Non-  inflammable  by  Saline 
Impregnation. — Much  attention  has  recently  been  attracted  to  this  subject, 
owing  to  the  frequent  loss  of  life  by  the  combustion  of  female  dresses 
which  has  occurred  in  Great  Britain.  The  Queen  having  set  the  example 
by  practical  experiments  in  the  "Royal  Laundry,"  made  with  solutions 
prepared  under  the  direction  of  a  scientific  gentleman,  others  are  now 
taking  hold  of  the  idea.  We  had  intended  to  have  published  an  account  of 
the  result  thus  far,  in  this  number,  but  for  want  of  space  defer  it  till  our  next. 
