Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  \ 
Dec,  1877.  J 
Editorial. 
621 
Austrian  Apothecaries'  Society.— The  sixteenth  annual  meeting  was  held  at 
Vienna,  Oct  15  and  16,  Director  Schiffner  in  the  chair.  The  Society  consists  of 
495  active,  43  corresponding  and  72  honorary  members.  The  annual  reports  of  the 
Directory  and  the  Treasurer  were  read,  and  the  usual  routine  business  transacted. 
Dr.  R.  Godeffroy  delivered  a  lecture  on  the  reactions  of  the  cinchona  alkaloids, 
illustrated  with  experiments  by  means  of  the  camera. 
The  Austrian  Pharmaceutical  Society  held  its  third  annual  meeting  at  Vienna, 
Sept.  10  and  11,  Mr.  G.  Hell  presiding.  Besides  the  routine  business,  the  Society 
discussed  the  subjects  of  pharmaceutical  education  and  of  the  revision  and  reform  of 
the  laws  regulating  the  practice  of  pharmacy. 
The  Swiss  Apothecaries'  Society  held  its  thirty-third  annual  meeting  at  Lenz- 
burg,  Aug.  16  and  17,  Prof.  E.  Schaer  presiding.  The  affairs  of  the  Society  were 
discussed,  the  trade  in  secret  remedies  received  due  attention,  and  several  communi- 
cations were  made  relating  to  the  analyses  of  articles  of  food  and  to  a  collection  of 
oils  of  various  species  of  Eucalyptus. 
EDITORIAL  DEPARTMENT. 
The  Friends  of  this  Journal  have  very  generously  supplied  us  during  the  past 
year  with  a  large  number  of  original  communications  and  essays,  many  of  which 
are  of  more  than  ordinary  value,  and  for  all  of  which  the  Editor  feels  under  obliga- 
tions to  the  contributors.  We  trust  that  they  will  continue  to  show  the  same 
friendly  interest  in  the  future,  and  we  take  occasion  to  again  invite  our  readers 
generally  to  furnish  us  with  accounts  of  their  observations  made  at  the  prescription 
counter  or  in  the  laboratory,  and  with  communications  of  general  pharmaceutical 
interest. 
The  Business  Editor,  we  are  informed,  has  also  had  cause  to  value  the  promptness 
of  most  of  our  readers  in  the  timely  remittance  of  their  subscriptions,  and  he  invites 
those  who  have  overlooked  the  matter  to  make  good  their  past  omissions. 
The  Philadelphia  Drug  Exchange  tendered  a  very  pleasant  and  creditable  enter- 
tainment to  the  drug  trade  and  others  on  the  evening  of  October  16.  The  spacious 
auditorium  of  the  new  Association  Hall  was  well  filled,  and  the  proceedings 
consisted  of  a  brief  address  by  the  president,  Mr.  Wm.  M.  Wilson  ;  a  very  inter- 
esting address,  sketching  the  history  of  the  drug  trade  of  Philadelphia,  by  Mr. 
Wm.  Gulager;  an  entertaining  lecture,  with  numerous  chemical  experiments,  by 
Professor  R.  E.  Rogers,  and  an  exhibition  with  the  projecting  microscope  by  Mr. 
D.  S.  Holman,  the  whole  interspersed  with  vocal  and  instrumental  music. 
On  the  third  floor  of  the  building  a  display  of  chemical  and  pharmaceutical 
preparations  from  the  laboratories  of  Philadelphia  manufacturers  was  arranged, 
