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Pharmaceutical  Legislation. — The  Baltimore  Pharmacy  Act.  approved 
March  23,  1870,  has  been  repealed  by  the  Legislature  of  Maryland,  and  in  its 
place  another  law  has  been  enacted  and  approved  April  I.  1872,  to  prevent 
incompetent  persons  from  conducting  business  as  pharmacists  or  vending,  at 
retail,  drugs,  medicines  and  chemicals  for  medicinal  use  in  the  city  of  Balti- 
more.   The  new  law  is  an  improvement  on  the  old  one. 
On  the  22d  of  May,  Governor  Hoffman  signed  the  new  Pharmacy  law  apply- 
ing to  the  city  of  New  York,  and  the  famous  Irving  bill,  with  its  costly  commis- 
sioners, is  now  dead  and  buried.  According  to  the  new  law  the  members  of 
the  College  of  Pharmacy  of  the  city  of  New  York  elect  the  Board  of  Pharmacy, 
which  is  to  be  composed  of  five  competent  poarmacists,  three  of  whom  shall 
be  graduates  in  medicine  and  two  graduates  in  pharmacy.  It  is  probable  that 
the  College  has  among  its  members  more  than  the  sufficient  number  of  grad- 
uates in  medicine,  qualified  according  to  this  law,  to  act  as  examiners,  so  that 
it  can  establish  the  standard  of  acquirements,  and  hereafter  becomes  respon- 
sible for  the  qualification  of  the  pharmacists  in  the  city  of  New  York. 
Thus  we  have,  beside  the  State  of  Rhode  Island,  now  four  large  cities  of  the 
United  States  for  which  pharmaceutical  laws  have  been  enacted,  namely,  New 
York,  Philadelphia.  Baltimore  and  San  Francisco.  Other  cities  and  States 
will  probably  soon  follow. 
The  Philadelphia  Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board  has  organized  by  the 
election  of  Mr.  James  N.  Marks  as  President  and  James  T.  Shinn  as  Secre- 
tary. The  office  of  the  Board  is  at  723  Arch  street,  where  the  registration  of 
those  engaged  in  the  business  was  commenced  on  May  20th.  We  understand 
that  the  Board  also  receives  now  applications  by  clerks  for  examination  and 
certificates  of  competency,  the  examination  to  commence  towards  the  latter 
part  of  June,  after  the  registration  of  the  pharmacists  in  business  has  been  ac- 
complished. 
The  Chicago  College  Fund. — The  Committee  in  Great  Britain  having  the 
matter  in  charge  announced  that  the  list  of  contributors  would  be  closed  on 
the  30th  of  April  last.  Up  to  April  12th  the  cash  received  amounted  to  £450, 
and  the  value  of  the  books  and  specimens  to  at  least  £100.  It  was  proposed 
to  expend  about  one  half  the  cash  in  the  purchase  of  other  useful  English 
books  on  pharmacy,  chemistry,  materia  medica  and  botany,  and  the  balance 
in  apparatus  and  specimens  for  the  illustration  of  lectures.  A  collection  of 
various  French  works  has  been  made  through  Dr.  J.  Leon  Soubeiran,  and  will 
be  sent  with  the  donation  from  Great  Britain. 
The  North  German  Apothecaries'  Society  has  shipped  to  the  Chicago  Col- 
lege about  250  volumes  of  the  following  scientific  journals  :  Archiv  der  Pharma- 
cie, Buchner's  Repertorium  der  Pharmacie,  Buchner's  Neues  Repertorium  der 
Pharmacie,  Jahrbuch  fur  Praktische  Pharmacie  and  Journal  fiir  praktische 
Chemie. 
A  Victim  of  the  Diploma  Swindle. — We  copy  the  following  from  the  Phar- 
maceutical Journal  and  Transactions  of  May  11th,  which  shows  that  the  revok- 
