EDITORIAL. 
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Committee  on  notices  of  deceased  Members. 
E.  Parrish,  Chairman,  W.  Procter,  Jr. 
C.  Bullock. 
Committee  on  Herbarium. 
J.  M.  Maisch,  Chairman  W.  K.  Warner, 
G.  J.  Scattergood. 
Then  on  motion  adjourned. 
Edward  Parrish,  Secretary, 
iSbitovial  iDepartmcnt. 
The  Great  Exhibition  of  1862  at  London. — At  the  last  meeting  of  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  Committee  was  appointed  to  collect 
specimens  of  the  materia  medica,  and  to  prepare  pharmaceutical  prepara- 
tions with  the  view  of  making  a  deposite  in  the  proposed  "  World's  Fair" 
next  year  that  will  illustrate  the  extent  of  our  medicinal  resources,  and 
the  quality  of  the  preparations  which  our  pharmaceutists  have  to  offer  to 
the  physician.  The  resolution  and  the  list  of  the  Committee  to  whose  at- 
tention it  was  committed,  will  be  found  at  page  574.  Our  object  in  bring- 
ing it  forward  in  this  place  is  to  call  the  attention  of  our  pharmaceutical 
friends  at  a  distance  to  this  work,  and  invite  them  to  assist  incidentally 
in  aiding  the  Committee  in  obtaining  specimens  not  easily  reached  in  this 
locality.  The  specimens  of  materia  medica  intended  are  strictly  those  of 
indigenous  growth,  including  all  medicinal  plants  native  to  the  United 
States  that  can  be  procured, and  those  naturalized  plants  that  flourish  readily 
here,  of  importance  in  medicine,  as  Belladonna,  Hyoscyamus,  etc.  It  is 
desirable  to  illustrate  roots  by  specimens  of  the  plants  that  yield  them,  or 
their  fruits,  or  leaves,  as  the  case  may  be,  and  thus  add  to  the  interest  of 
the  collection.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that  this  idea  had  not  been  stated 
earlier,  so  that  many  of  the  herbaceous  plants  now  out  of  season,  and 
difficult  if  not  impossible  to  procure  in  commerce,  might  have  been  in- 
cluded. Should  this  project  be  carried  out  successfully,  it  will  present  to 
the  pharmacologists  of  England  an  opportunity  for  studying  American 
drugs  never  before  so  thoroughly  afforded. 
The  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy. — For  several  years  past  the 
Trustees  of  this  Institution  have  committed  the  tuition  of  its  School  of 
Pharmacy  to  Dr.  Doremus,  of  tlie  New  York  Medical  College,  on  chemistry  ; 
and  Professor  Thurber,  now  of  the  University  of  Michigan,  on  pharmacy 
and  materia  medica.  These  gentlemen  having  resigned  their  connection 
with  the  school,  the  Trustees  have  appointed  two  pharmaceutists  to  the 
vacant  professorships  ;  viz.:  Mr.  John  M.  Maisch,  of  Philadelphia,  well 
and  favorably  known  by  his  numerous  contributions  to  the  American 
Journal  of  Pharmacy,  as  Professor  of  Materia  Medica  and  Pharmacy ; 
