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the  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress  at  St.  Petersburg,  after  which  the 
new  constitution  of  the  Association  was  discussed.  The  next  annual  meeting 
will  again  be  held  at  Vienna. 
<£Mtorial  Department. 
To  our  Readers. — The  appearance  of  the  November  number  of  our  Jour- 
nal was  unavoidably  delayed  through  the  engraver,  who,  owing  to  an  affection 
of  the  eye,  was  unable  to  finish,  in  due  season,  the  portrait  of  the  late  Prof. 
Proctor,  which  was  to  accompany  the  memoir  of  him,  who,  for  a  period  of 
twenty-three  years,  had  been  known  to  the  readers  of  this  Journal  as  its  sole 
or  assistant  editor.  This  portrait  has  reached  the  hands  of  our  readers  ;  and 
while  some  who  knew  the  deceased  only  during  the  last  few  years  of  his  life 
may  perhaps  find  it  difficult  to  reconcile  the  picture  with  his  appearance  as 
they  knew  him,  there  are  many  others  who  have  known  him  only  as  they  find 
his  features  delineated  in  the  picture.  With  few  exceptions,  those  students  of 
the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  whose  good  fortune  it  has  been  to 
listen  to  his  instructions,  have  known  him  only  without  the  beard,  during  the 
period  in  which  nearly  all  his  scientific  labors  have  been  performed,  and  all 
who  met  him  before  1867,  will  find  the  likeness  not  only  faithfully,  but  artist- 
ically executed. 
To  meet  the  wishes  of  many,  the  Publication  Committee  have  determined  to 
print  the  portrait  of  the  late  Professor  Procter  upon  large  and  heavy  paper, 
suitable  for  framing  ;  and  those  of  his  former  pupils  and  friends,  who  are  desir- 
ous of  thus  preserving  his  features,  may  obtain  copies,  at  fifty  cents  each,  by 
addressing,  Mr.  H.  H.  Wolle,  the  Business  Editor  of  this  Journal. 
KEVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Pharmacographia.  A  history  of  the  principal  drugs  of  vegetable  origin  met 
with  in  Great  Britain  and  British  India.  By  Friedrich  A.  Fliickiger,  Phil. 
Dr.,  Professor  in  the  University  of  Strassburg,  and  Daniel  Hanbury,  F.R.S., 
Fellow  of  the  Linnsean  and  Chemical  Societies  of  London.  London  :  Mac- 
millan  &  Co.,  1874.    8vo,  pp.  704. 
A  work  of  this  kind  has  long  been  needed  in  the  English  language ;  that  it 
has  been  written  by  the  authors,  is  sufficient  proof  of  its  excellence. 
The  drugs  are  classified  according  to  their  botanical  origin,  and  the  natural 
orders  arranged  in  accordance  with  the  system  of  De  Candolle.  The  Latin 
name,  with  the  principal  synonyms  of  each  drug,  is  followed  by  their  English, 
French  and  German  names. 
The  section  Botanical  Origin  enumerates  the  recognized  botanical  name, 
together  with  the  synonyms,  the  habit  and  habitat  of  the  plant  yielding  the 
drug;  but  botanical  descriptions  are,  very  properly,  almost  entirely  excluded. 
The  section  History  is  particularly  interesting.   It  gives  a  historical  account 
