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EDITORIAL. 
the  issue,  the  Committee  find  it  impracticable  to  proceed  more  rapidly  on 
the  plan  adopted,  to  avoid  making  the  work  sectional.  Every  local  con- 
tribution towards  the  revision  from  colleges  and  societies,  submitted  to  the 
National  Convention  at  Washington,  receives  due  consideration.  The 
Committee  meet  three  times  a  month,  and  the  member  from  New  York  is 
almost  always  at  his  post,  although  it  involves  a  journey  of  an  hundred 
miles  to  efi"ect  it.  We  trust  therefore  that  our  pharmaceutical  friends  will 
not  be  uneasy  at  the  delay  which  marks  this  laborious  undertaking. 
Our  Subscribers  and  the  Mail. — In  the  distribution  of  this  Journal 
we  are  met  by  diflficulties,  some  of  which  are  at  present  insurmountable. 
Among  our  subscribers  are  perhaps  three  or  four  hundred  who  are  resi 
dents  of  the  seceded  States,  into  which  the  U.  S.  Mail  has  ceased  to  be 
carried,  and  no  arrangement,  so  far  as  we  know,  has  been  made  by  which 
Southern  subscribers  to  Northern  Journals  can  be  supplied.  As  this 
Journal  is  purely  scientific  and  wholly  disconnected  with  political  objects, 
and  solely  humanitarian  in  its  tendency,  no  possible  objection  can  be 
urged  against  its  circulation.  The  only  c^uestion  is  how  can  those  nume- 
rous subscribers  at  the  South,  many  of  whom  have  honorably  paid  up  their 
subscriptions  to  the  present  volume,  be  supplied  with  the  present  and 
future  issues  ?  We  have  felt  bound  to  assume  the  risk  of  printing  as 
large  an  edition  as  of  the  previous  numbers  of  this  volume,  and  will  re- 
tain those  for  Southern  subscribers  until  some  safe  arrangement  shall  be 
made  by  the  Postmaster  General  at  Washington,  by  which  such  mail  mat- 
ter will  be  distributed  at  the  South,  and  not  sent  to  the  "Dead  Letter 
Office  "  as  waste  paper.  Pharmaceutists  at  the  South  who  desire  to  con- 
tinue  subscribers,  or  who  wish  to  receive  the  current  volume,  would  do 
well  to  make  interest  with  their  own  postal  authorities,  by  which  such 
mail  matter  can  reach  them  through  some  of  the  Kentucky  or  other  bor- 
der Post  Offices,  to  effect  which  it  will  be  necessary  to  pre-pay  the  U,  S. 
postage  here  to  such  points. 
The  Druggist,  of  Cincinnati. — The  June  number  of  this  Journal  com- 
mences the  third  volume  of  the  work,  and  is,  we  perceive,  published  by 
William  D.)yle,  and  under  the  editorial  superintendence  of  Edward  S. 
Wayne,  well  known  for  his  many  contributions  to  pharmaceutical  know- 
ledge.  Mr.  Wayne  pledges  his  best  endeavors  to  keep  his  readers  posted 
in  the  current  information  of  the  day  pertaining  to  our  profession.  We 
shall,  in  common  with  many  others,  be  pleased  to  hear  through  the 
columns  of  the  Druggist,  of  the  present  condition  and  prospects  of  the  grape 
culture  and  wine  production  in  that  region,  including  any  new  information 
in  regard  to  the  collection  of  American  tartar. 
