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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
/Am.  Jour.  Pharm, 
\   December,  1907. 
Professors  Tschirch  and  Oesterle  announce  that  they  will  conduct  a 
post-graduate  course  of  instruction,  covering  about  ten  days,  open 
to  all  Swiss  pharmacists. 
Japanese  Pharmacopoeia — The  English  translation  of  the  Japanese 
pharmacopoeia  has  been  published  and  was  reviewed  at  some  length 
in  a  recent  number  of  the  Chemist  and  Druggist. 
A  German  translation  of  the  new  Japanese  pharmacopoeia  has 
been  published  in  Osaka.  This  latter  translation  was  made  by  the 
Director  of  the  Hygienic  Laboratory,  at  Osaka,  Mr.  M.  Hirayama. 
(Phar.  Post,  1907,  page  749.) 
Pharmaceutical  Education  in  Great  Britain. — In  an  address  at  the 
opening  of  the  sixty-sixth  session  of  the  School  of  Pharmacy  of  the 
Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain,  Prof.  Raphael  Mendola,  of 
the  Finsbury  Technical  College,  and  an  honorary  member  of  the 
Pharmaceutical  Society,  discoursed  on  the  shortcomings  of  the 
scientific  education  of  pharmacists  in  Great  Britain.  Comparing 
the  training  given  British  pharmacists  with  that  given  on  the  Con. 
tinent  of  Europe,  he  finds  that  the  former  is  far  behind  that  of  any 
other  country  in  Europe,  with  the  possible  exception  of  Italy  and 
Portugal. 
Professor  Mendola  believes  that  the  introduction  of  a  course  and 
degree  in  pharmacy  by  the  Universities  of  Manchester,  Glasgow 
and  Edinburgh,  will  serve  as  a  leavening  influence  to  bring  about 
the  necessary  demand  for  higher  qualifications  in  the  practice  of 
pharmacy. 
The  address  has  been  published  in  full  in  the  several  British 
Pharmaceutical  journals.  It  is  well  worth  a  careful  perusal  by  all 
American  pharmacists  and  it  should  certainly  be  read  and  reread  by 
all  opponents  of  higher  educational  requirements. 
The  Fliickiger  Gold  Medal  has  been  awarded  to  Prof.  Eduard 
Heckel,  the  Director  of  the  Colonial  Institute  at  Marseilles.  The 
medal  was  founded  by  Dr.  F.  A.  Fliickiger,  of  Strasburg,  in  1893, 
and  is  awarded  every  five  years,  in  recognition  of  steps  taken  to 
promote  the  advancement  of  scientific  pharmacy,  irrespective  of 
nationality.  Mr.  E.  M.  Holmes,  the  Curator  of  the  Museums  of  the 
Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain,  received  the  first  medal, 
and  the  second  was  presented  to  Dr.  C.  Schmidt,  of  the  University 
of  Marburg.    (Phar.  Jour.,  September  14,  1907,  page  335.) 
Cactin  and  Cactina. — Dr.  R.  A.  Hatcher  (Jour.  A.  M.  A.,  page 
