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EDITORIAL. 
Friday  evening,  Oct.  2d,  and  continued  on  Monday,  Wednesday  and  Friday 
evenings,  until  the  1st  of  March— two  lectures  on  each  evening.  The  lec- 
tures consist  of  three  courses— on  Chemistry,  Materia  Medica  and  Practical 
Pharmacy,— and  are  thoroughly  illustrated  with  apparatus,  specimens  and 
diagrams,  and  no  trouble  is  spared  by  the  professors  in  rendering  the  subject 
as  clear  and  lucid  as  possible.  The  conditions  of  graduation  are  appended 
to  the  advertisement. 
Dr.  Edward  R.  Squibb.  Louisville  Chemical  Works. — Our  readers 
have  become  familiar  with  the  name  of  Dr.  Squibb  as  the  author  of  vari- 
ous papers  which  have  appeared  in  this  journal  during  several  years  past ; 
luring  which  period  (and  before)  he  has  conducted  the  manufacturing 
department  of  the  U.  S.  Naval  Laboratory,  at  Brooklyn,  in  a  highly  satis- 
factory manner,  and  supplied  to  the  navy  the  pharmaceutical  preparations 
of  the  Pharmacopoeia  in  a  uniformly  good  condition.  Notwithstanding 
the  importance,  of  his  service,  the  emoluments  of  his  office  are  limited  to 
the  small  salary  of  Passed  Assistant  Surgeon.  At  his  own  request  Dr. 
Squibb  has  been  detached  from  the  Naval  Laboratory  in  order  to  accept 
the  position,  temporarily  at  least,  of  manufacturing  co-partner  in  the  firm 
of  Thomas  E.  Jenkins  &  Co.,  of  Louisville,  Kentucky,  which  firm  is  about 
to  establish,  in  connection  with  their  drug  business,  a  large  manufactory 
of  chemical  and  pharmaceutical  preparations  under  the  title  of  "  Louisville 
Chemical  Works."  Prof.  Smith,  of  the  University  of  Louisville,  is  also  a 
partner  in  the  firm.  Dr.  Squibb  will  have  charge  of  the  manufacturing 
department  of  the  works,  and  Mr.  Jenkins  the  commercial  department, 
leaving  the  financial  department  for  Prof.  Smith. 
Located  near  the  centre  of  the  great  valley  of  the  Mississippi,  the  firm 
intend  to  seek  their  market  chiefly  west  of  the  mountains,  and  as  the 
pioneer  establishment  of  this  kind,  out  there,  propose  to  adhere  strictly  to 
the  Pharmacopoeia  in  the  purity  of  their  preparations,  on  which  condition 
mly  Dr.  Squibb  entered  the  firm,  as  he  is  well  known  as  the  uncompro- 
mising enemy  of  adulterated  drugs  and  chemicals,  come  they  from  what 
quarter  they  may.  We  trust,  with  intentions  so  fair,  they  may  meet  suc- 
cess;, and  join  our  friends  Powers  &  Weigh tman,  Rosengarten  &  Sons  and 
other  houses,  in  developing  the  resources  of  this  great  country,  and  stopping 
the  influx  of  foreign  chemicals. 
Resin  of  Liquidamber  Stvraciflua. — Mr.  Daniel  Hanbury,  in  a  letter 
to  the  editor,  dated  London,  June  2,  1857,  says  in  reference  to  this  resin 
as  follows : 
"  I  thank  you  for  the  sample  of  liquidamber  resin.  The  acid  which  it 
contains  you  will  find  to  be  cinnamic;  it  is  easily  extracted  by  boiling  the 
resin  with  lime  and  water,  filtering  the  hot  liquor  and  allowing  the  cinna- 
