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principals  to  associations  and  colleges ;  indeed,  they  serve  the  pur- 
pose  of  endowment.  They  benefit  continually,  as  a  rule,  the  poor 
and  deserving  student.  They  are  the  means  at  the  command  of  the 
investigator  and  professional  man,  whose  labors  enlighten  the 
world.  They  contribute  to  institutions  of  learning  what  is  most 
needed,  viz.,  means  to  enable  those  whom  fortune  has  not  smiled 
upon  to  prosecute  intellectual  pursuits  ;  they  do  for  the  world  infi- 
nitely more  good  in  providing  means  for  intellectual  pursuits  by 
those  who  are  to  be  its  savants  and  contributors  to  science  than  is 
possible  probably  from  any  other  form  of  memorial.  Apparently, 
however,  they  do  not  so  much  emblazon  the  memory  of  those  in 
whose  honor  they  are  created  as  monuments,  but  who  can  question 
their  real  value  in  furthering  the  cause  of  progress  and  enlighten- 
ment ?  The  name  of  some  great  man  or  woman  is  necessary,  as  a 
rule,  to  create  a  sentiment  for  raising  funds  to  be  used  in  the  estab- 
lishment of  fellowships  and  scholarships. 
III.  Medals  have  also  been  recognized  as  a  form  of  memorial  in 
which  the  recipient  carries  with  him  the  face  of  him  who  is  thus  com- 
memorated. This  is  probably  the  most  inefficient  form  of  memorial. 
As  a  tribute  of  friends  to  the  living  medals  are  peculiarly  appro- 
priate, but  as  tributes  of  friends  or  associations,  commemorating 
acts  of  those  who  have  departed,  they  are  singularly  devoid  of 
power  in  the  world  at  large  or  even  to  the  donor.  In  some  places 
medals  may  have  some  significance.  But  the  greater  the  man,  the 
less  the  disposition  to  display  medals  and  the  more  likely  is  he  to 
forget  that  he  even  possesses  them,  as  we  recall  that  Bunsen  had 
frequently  to  be  reminded  to  wear  the  medals  which  had  been 
showered  upon  him  by  learned  societies  and  institutions  from  all 
over  the  world. 
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Die  Mikroskopische  Analyse  der  Drogenpulver.  Ein  Atlas 
fiir  Apotheker,  Drogisten  und  Studierende  der  Pharmacie  von  Dr. 
Ludwig  Koch.  Erster  Band  :  Die  Rinden  und  Hblzer.  2.  Lieferung. 
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50  Pf. 
The  present  fascicle  contains  descriptions  of  the  following  barks  : 
Cinnamomi  chinensis,  Citri  fructus,  Condurango,  Frangidce  and  Granati, 
