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•chemistry,  (6)  Galenic  pharmacy,  (7)  physics,  (8)  zoology,  and  (9)  natural 
history  of  medicaments. 
The  staff  consists  of  nine  professors,  eight  assistant  professors,  a  responsible 
secretary,  a  superintendent  of  practical  chemistry  and  pharmacy,  four  lecture 
demonstrators,  three  demonstrators  of  the  practical  course,  a  librarian  and 
other  officials,  numbering  in  all  thirty-five  persons.  The  functions  of  director 
of  the  school  are  exercised  by  one  of  the  professors. 
During  the  four  "  trimestres"  of  the  scholastic  year  1872-73,  there  were  1382 
•entries.  During  the  same  time  the  number  of  examinations  were  1664.  The 
■cost  of  the  terms  and  examinations  for  the  diploma  of  pharmacien  of  the  first 
■class  is  1390  francs ;  that  for  the  terms  and  examinations  for  the  diploma  of 
pharmacien  of  the  second  class,  660  francs. 
In  1872  the  receipts  of  the  Ecole  Superieure  de  Pharmacie  of  Paris  amounted 
to  238,790  fiancs.  The  expenditure  during  the  same  time,  including  the  cost 
of  the  staff,  was  only  174,875  francs  76  centimes,  leaving  a  balance  of  63,914 
francs  24  centimes. 
Amongst  the  remarkable  persons  who  have  passed  through  this  school  may 
be  mentioned  Parmentier,  Vauquelin,  Robiquet,  Pelouze,  Pelletier,  and  Ca- 
ventou.  the  latter  two  of  whom  first  prepared  the  sulphate  of  quinia.  At  the 
present  day  the  staff  of  the  school  is  constituted  as  follows: 
Director. — M.  Chatin. 
Honorary  Director. — M.  Bussy. 
Administrators. — MM.  Chatin,  Berthelot,  and  Planchon. 
Honorary  Professor. — M.  Caventou. 
Professors. — Botany,  M.  Chatin  ;  Organic  Chemistry,  M.  Berthelot;  Zoology, 
M.Milne-Edwards;  Physics,  M.  Buignet;  Galenic  Pharmacy,  M.  Chevallier ; 
Natural  History  of  Medicaments,  M.  Planchon;  Toxicology,  M.  Bouis ;  Phar- 
maceutical Chemistry,  M.  Baudrimont.  The  chair  of  Inorganic  Chemistry  is 
at  present  vacant. 
Delegates  from  the  Faculty  of  Medicine. — MM.  Bouchardat  and  Gavarret. 
Assistant  Professors. — MM.  Soubeiran,  Riche,  Bourgoin,  Jungfleisch,  Le 
Roux,  Marchand,  Gustave  Bouchardat,  and  Joannes  Chatin. 
Secretary. — M.  Chapelle. 
— Pharm.  Journ.  (Lond.),  May  2,  1874. 
Eupatorium  in  Tapeworm. — Dr.  H.  S.  Wilkins,  in  Med.  and  Surg.  Reporter 
for  April  4th,  reports  a  case  in  which  a  tapeworm  was  partially  expelled  from 
a  woman  after  she  had  used  an  infusion  of  boneset  for  two  weeks.  Pumpkin 
seed,  afterwards  administered,  had  no  effect ;  the  boneset  infusion  was  renewed 
and  in  a  few  days  she  voided  over  sixteen  feet  of  the  taenia. 
Mutual  Behavior  of  Oxygen  and  Water. — Em.  Schcene. — The  author  con- 
cludes, from  a  series  of  carefully  conducted  experiments,  that — (1)  Ozone  is 
partially  destroyed  by  passing  through  water.  If  dry,  ozonized  oxygen  is 
simply  collected  over  water,  the  ozone  present  is  diminished  by  about  one-fourth* 
