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Editorial. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
April,  1894. 
EDITORIAL. 
As  with  this  number  of  the  "American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,"  the  temporary 
arrangement  existing  since  the  death  of  its  late  lamented  editor,  Prof.  John  M. 
Maisch,  will  cease,  and  the  April  number  will  bear  upon  its  title-page  the  name 
of  a  new  editor,  it  seems  fitting  that  a  brief  historical  statement  should  be 
made,  reviewing  its  record  of  more  than  sixty-eight  years.  The  "American 
Journal  of  Pharmacy  "  was  first  issued  as  a  32-page  pamphlet  in  Decembe^ 
1825.  Its  title  at  that  time  was  the  "Journal  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy."  The  editorial  staff  consisted  of  the  following  Publication  Com- 
mittee :  Samuel  Jackson,  M.D.,  Henry  Troth,  Solomon  Temple,  Ellis  H. 
Yarnall  and  Daniel  B.  Smith.  About  one  number  was  issued  yearly  until  1829, 
(in  all  four  numbers),  when  volume  II  (or  vol.  I,  new  series)  was  issued  under 
the  editorship  of  Benj.  Ellis.  M.D.  In  this  volume  occurs  a  review  of  the 
revised  issue  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia.  Volume  III,  1831,  was  edited 
by  R.  E.  Griffith,  M.D.,  Lecturer  on  Materia  Medica  and  Pharmacy  in  the 
Philadelphia  School  of  Medicine. 
In  April,  1835,  the  first  volume  of  a  new  series  was  issued  under  the  present 
title  of  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy.  R.  E.  Griffith,  M.D.,  still  occu- 
pied the  editorial  chair  with  the  title  of  Professor  of  Materia  Medica  in  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  In  1836,  Joseph  Carson,  M.D.,  became 
editor.  Robert  Bridges,  M.D.  became  associate  editor  with  Dr.  Carson  in 
1838.  In  1847,  the  editors  were  Joseph  Carson,  M.D.,  and  Professors  Bridges 
and  Procter.  Dr.  Bridges  withdrew  in  1848  and  left  the  names  of  Jos.  Carson, 
M.D.,  and  William  Procter,  Jr.,  upon  the  title-page  as  the  editors.  In  1850, 
the  former  withdrew  from  active  work,  although  his  name  is  found  among  the 
Publishing  Committee,  while  Prof.  Procter  assumed  sole  editorial  charge.  This 
position  he  retained  continuously  until  187 1,  when  he  asked  to  be  released  from 
the  continued  strain  and  pressure  of  work.  Prof.  John  M.  Maisch  then  became 
editor.  How  faithfully  our  lamented  colleague  filled  this  trust  during  the  22 
years  ending  with  his  death  last  fall,  all  who  have  seen  the  Journal  during  this 
period  can  testify.  To  fill  the  place  of  such  an  editor  was  the  problem  pre- 
sented to  the  College  at  its  recent  annual  meeting.  We  believe  that  a  happy 
solution  of  the  difficulty  has  been  reached  in  the  selection  of  Prof.  Henry 
Trimble,  whose  name  appears  for  the  first  time  as  editor  upon  this  number. 
Prof.  Trimble  has  been  so  frequent  a  contributor  individually^and  through 
the  work  of  students  in  his  laboratory,  as  to  require  no  introduction  to  the 
readers  of  this  Journal.  We  hope  that  under  his  editorial  supervision  the  Journal 
will  enter  upon  a  new  period  of  usefulness  to  those  interested  in  Pharmacy  and 
cognate  sciences.  S.  P.  S. 
