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each  other,  but  they  were  likewise  the  meaus  of  opening  many  places  of  interest 
which  would  have  otherwise  been  accessible  with  difficulty. 
About  seventy-five  members,  including  the  ladies,  participated  in  the  excur- 
sion to  Mammoth  Cave,  for  which  round  trip  tickets  had  been  secured  at  $5.50, 
besides  a  reduction  of  25  per  cent,  from  the  board  and  the  entrance  fee  at  the 
Cave.  We  have  been  informed  by  Col.  Miller,  the  Superintendent  of  the  Cave, 
that,  with  the  exception  of  a  party  of  eighty-four,  consisting  of  students 
accompanied  by  their  professors,  this  party  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  was  the  largest  one  that  has  visited  this  subterranean  wonder. 
Sixty-six  persons  entered  Mammoth  Cave  on  Saturday,  Sept.  12th,  and,  pass- 
ing over  the  short  route,  visited  Gorin's  dome,  the  bottomless  pit,  the  giant's 
coffin,  the  star  chamber,  &c,  spending  four  to  five  hours  in  the  Cave.  On  the 
following  day,  sixty  of  the  party  travelled  over  the  long  route,  remaining  under 
ground  between  ten  and  eleven  hours,  passing  through  Fat  man's  misery 
crossing  the  river  Styx,  lake  Lethe,  and,  by  boats,  Echo  river,  climbing  the 
Eocky  mountains  to  take  a  look  at  the  Dismal  Hollow,  and,  at  the  end  of  the 
Cave,  viewing  the  Maelstrom  at  the  bottom  of  a  pit  one  hundred  and  ninety 
feet  deep.  The  grandeur  of  these  subterranean  corridors  and  rotundas,  with 
(heir  hanging  and  fallen  rocks,  their  ancient  now  dry  water-courses,  their  still 
rivers  and  ponds,  their  monotonous  cascades,  their  innumerable  stalactites  and 
stalagmites  of  all  conceivable  forms,  their  quietness  and  impenetrable  dark- 
ness, their  eyeless  fish  and  crawfish,  is  beyond  description,  and  well  repaid  the 
long  journey. 
On  the  homeward  trip  from  the  Mammoth  Cave  the  party  scattered,  doubt" 
less  well  pleased  with  Louisville,  the  beautiful  "  City  of  the  Falls,"  and  the 
hospitality  of  which  they  had  been  the  recipients.  The  twenty-second  meeting 
of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  is  over,  and  the  work  for  the 
twenty-third  meeting,  in  Boston,  must  soon  commence. 
Notes  on  the  Pharmaceutical  Exhibition  of  Louisville. — The  following 
from  the  pen  of  Dr.  A.  W.  Miller,  contains  so  many  timely  suggestions  and 
observations,  that  we  prefer  to  give  his  ''notes"  in  place  of  enumerating  to 
our  readers  the  articles  which  were  placed  on  exhibition. 
In  accordance  with  the  programme  of  the  Local  Secretary,  the  lower  hall  of  the 
Liederkranz  building  had  been  specially  arranged  aud  decorated  for  this  dis- 
play. The  room  was  peculiarly  well  suited  for  the  purpose,  as  it  was  hand- 
somely fitted  up,  and  possessed  sufficient  altitude,  an  ample  amount  of  space 
and  an  abundance  of  light.  Being  situated  in  the  rear  of  the  building,  the 
disagreeable  dust  and  unharmonious  noise  of  the  street  were  alike  avoided. 
The  local  committee  had  been  untiring  in  their  efforts  to  assist  the  exhibitors 
by  all  means  in  their  power.  Prof.  Scheffer,  in  particular,  earned  the  sincere 
thanks  of  many  of  the  representatives  of  Eastern  houses. 
The  numerous  Industrial  Expositions  of  the  West  usually  present  at  one 
glance  so  many  heterogeneous  elements,  which  bear  no  particular  relation  to 
each  other,  and  which  are  but  imperfectly  classified,  that  the  general  effect 
becomes  quite  confusing,  if  not  actually  painful.    In  this  respect  the  Pharma- 
