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The  book  has  been  made  possible  by  the  liberality  of  the  Society 
for  American  Fellowships  in  French  universities,  which  has  borne 
all  expense  of  publication. 
The  master  minds  of  France  have  not  only  enriched  their  own 
country,  but  have  stimulated,  developed  and  sustained  the  best 
thought  throughout  the  world.  The  American  people  have  always 
been  grateful  and  thoroughly  appreciative  of  Lafayette  and  the 
other  noble  French  men  whose  unselfish  efforts  made  possible  the 
establishment  of  this  republic.  Many  of  our  institutions  of  learn- 
ing have  been  modelled  after  the  famous  schools  of  France.  The 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  in  its  early  days  showed  a  strong 
leaning  toward  the  French  attitude  in  the  development  of  the  Ecole 
Superieure  d'Pharmacie.  The  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy 
was  inspired  by  the  Journal  de  Pharmacie  et  Chimie  and  for  many 
years  the  prevailing  abstracts  were  from  French  authors.  The 
School  of  Pharmacy  of  Paris,  with  its  group  of  eminent  scientific 
men,  is  the  leading  institution  of  pharmacy  in  the  world.  "  A  nota- 
ble figure  is  that  of  Guignard,  pioneer  in  modern  morphology,  whose 
discoveries  and  technique  in  this  field  are  surpassed  in  no  labora- 
tory. His  material  includes  chiefly  the  higher  plants,  but  asso- 
ciated with  him  is  Radais,  an  authority  in  cryptogams.  The  whole 
range  of  plant  morphology,  therefore,  is  presented  by  these  two 
investigators.''' 
Similarly  in  chemistry  we  have  Behal,  an  organic  chemist,  who 
among  other  subjects,  has  studied  unsaturated  compounds  and  creo- 
sote, author  of  "  Traite  de  Chimie  organique  "  (2  vols.,  Paris,  1909- 
191 1,  3d  ed.)  ;  Gautier,  known  for  various  investigations  in  organic 
chemistry,  in  chemical  toxicology,  and  in  hygiene,  author  of  "  Cours 
de  Chimie  organique"  Paris,  1906,  3d  ed.),  "Ptomaines  et  leuco- 
maines  "  (Paris,  1866),  and  "  L' Alimentation  et  les  regimes  chez 
1'homme  sain  et  chez  les  malades "  (Paris,  1904);  D.  Berthelot, 
author  of  important  researches  on  the  theory  of  gases,  the  determi- 
nation of  molecular  weights,  and  photochemistry ;  Moureu,  a  stu- 
dent of  the  rare  gases  of  the  atmosphere,  and  an  eminent  organic 
chemist,  author  of  ''Notions  fondamentales  de  Chimie  organique" 
(Paris,  1902)  ;  Bourquelot,  whose  researches  upon  enzymes  are 
well  known,  author  of  "Les  Ferments  solubles"  (Paris,  1896), 
Villers,  Guimbert  and  Lebeau. 
H.  K. 
