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Reviews,  etc. 
f  Am.  Jour  Pharro. 
\       June,  1&77. 
read,  about  170  pages.  An  account  of  the  meeting  will  be  found  on  page  473  of 
our  last  volume,  and  since  then  brief  abstracts  of  several  of  the  papers  read  have 
appeared  in  the  "Journal." 
There  are  several  matters  to  which  we  desire  to  allude  in  this  connection.  A 
very  important  one  is  the  creation  of  a  fund,  from  which  grants  have  been  made 
amounting  during  the  past  year  to  £75,  with  the  view  of  aiding  original  investiga- 
tions. And  it  must  be  acknowledged  that  the  money  has  been  well  spent.  Though 
barely  sufficient  to  cover  the  cost  of  the  material,  it  has  found  its  way  into  the  hands 
of  men  who  devoted  their  knowledge  and  time  to  the  investigation  of  important 
subjects.  At  the  next  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  the 
nucleus  for  a  similar  fund  will  be  presented,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  it  may  soon 
increase  to  a  sufficient  amount  that  those  who  desire  to  undertake  investigations 
involving  considerable  outlay  of  money  may  at  least  be  recompensed  for  this,  since 
neither  their  labor  nor  the  possible  value  of  the  results  can  be  repaid. 
The  second  subject  deserving  commentation  is  the  long  list  of  faithful  members,, 
far  outnumbering  those  of  the  older  Association  on  this  continent.  We  have 
alluded  to  this  on  former  occasions,  but  we  recur  to  the  subject  again,  and  cannot 
but  express  our  belief  that  with  little  effort  on  the  part  of  each  member  the  roll  of 
membership  might  be  considerably  increased  Even  viewed  merely  as  a  matter  of 
dollars  and  cents,  the  publications  of  the  British  and  the  American  societies  are 
worth  by  far  more  than  the  annual  contributions. 
The  third  subject  to  which  we  feel  constrained  to  allude  is  the  commendable  fact 
that  while  the  annual  income  of  the  British  Conference  for  the  first  eleven  vears  was 
merely  sufficient  for  its  annual  expenditure,  the  two  following  years  enabled  the 
Conference  to  report  a  surplus  of  about  £430,  nearly  the  whole  of  which  was 
invested  in  government  securities.  The  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  we 
regret  to  say,  cannot  show  such  a  sound  financial  record  ;  after  twenty-five  years  of 
its  existence,  it  does,  as  in  the  past,  meet  its  liabilities  5  but  it  has  not  been  able  to 
lay  by  a  reserve  fund.  One  of  the  causes  is  to  be  found  in  the  stipulation  ot  the 
old  constitution,  by  which  membeis  who  had  paid  ten  annual  dues  became  free 
from  further  contributions,  but  still  enjoyed  all  the  privileges  of  full  membership  5 
the  other  cause  we  have  alluded  to  before  :  the  small  number  of  members,  as  com- 
pared with  the  large  number  of  intelligent  pharmacists. 
We  congratulate  our  brethren  in  Great  Britain  on  their  success,  and  we  hope 
that,  in  this  country,  we  may  profit  from  their  experience. 
Official  Bulletin  of  the  International  Exhibition,  Fairmount  Park.     Philadelphia  : 
1877.     Nu.  3.    Educational  Number. 
The  permanent  international  exhibition  was  formally  opened  May  10th,  and  is 
located  in  the  "  Main  Building,"  with  which  our  readers  who  have  visited  the  Cen- 
tennial Exposition  last  year  are  familiar.  The  "  Bulletin  "  before  us  refers  to  the 
exhibits  relating  to  educational  matters,  and  contains  also  a  map  of  the  exhibition 
gn-unds  and  a  general  plan,  showing  the  arrangement  of  the  exhibition.  We  expect 
to  notice,  hereafter,  such  portions  of  the  exhibition  as  may  be  of  special  interest  to 
our  readers. 
