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EDITORIAL. 
(fMtorial  Department. 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association. — It  has  been  usual  to  publish 
the  announcement  of  the  Annual  Meeting  in  the  May  number  of  this 
Journal;  but  as  the  President  has  not  sent  us  the  notice,  we  presume 
he  has  concluded  to  postpone  it  until  the  July  issue.  Meanwhile  we 
would  suggest  to  those  of  our  readers  who  owe  service  to  the  Cincinnati 
meeting,  that  they  take  time  early  and  prepare  their  papers. 
The  Professorship  of  Materia  Medica. — At  the  meeting  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  held  April  5th, 
(1864),  Edward  Parrish  was  unanimously  elected  Professor  of  Materia 
Medica  in  the  School  of  Pharmacy,  to  fill  the  vacancy  occasioned  by  the 
death  of  Prof.  E,  P.  Thomas.  This  Chair  is  one  of  great  importance  in 
the  scheme  of  instruction  conducted  in  the  School,  and  involves  constant  vig- 
ilance to  keep  up  with  the  progress  of  science  and  discovery.  The 
wide  scope  and  intrinsic  interest  which  attaches  to  the  history  of  drugs 
in  their  botanical  and  commercial  relations,  affords  a  field  for  the 
gratification  of  a  laudable  ambition,  and  brings  the  Professor  into  direct 
contact  with  men  of  science.  We  congratulate  Professor  Parrish  on  his 
unanimous  election,  and  wish  him  a  successful  career  as  teacher  of 
Materia  Medica. 
Pharmacy  in  Great  Britain. — At  the  present  time  the  Pharmaceutical 
body  of  England  is  in  a  great  ferment,  owing  to  the  proposed  introduction 
of  a  new  Pharmacy  Bill  into  Parliament  involving  the  interests  of  all  con- 
nected with  the  supply  of  medicines.  It  will  be  recollected  that  the  ex- 
isting Act  in  reference  to  the  charter  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society,  and 
the  subsequent  grant  giving  the  members  of  that  Society  the  sole  right  to 
employ  the  title  of  Pharmaceutical  Chemist,  applies  only  to  a  small  portion 
of  the  whole  body  of  practitioners,  most  of  whom  are  known  as  "  Chem- 
ists and  Druggists."  Three  years  ago  the  latter,  feeling  themselves  ag- 
grieved, formed  a  National  Association,  started  a  Journal,  and  have  been 
gradually  gaining  an  influence  by  united  action  which  is  raising  their 
status.  The  object  of  the  bill  appears  to  be  to  bring  about  a  fusion  of 
the  two  classes  by  requiring  a  registration  of  all  Chemists  and  Drug- 
gists, and  making  it  imperative  on  all  "  Chemists  and  Druggists  "  to  un- 
dergo an  examination  before  they  can  go  into  business,  after  the  1st  of 
January,  18G5.  We  have  not  space  for  the  other  features  of  the  Bill, 
but  propose  in  a  future  number  to  give  an  expose  of  the  progress  of  the 
movement. 
