iZ7nst,\^9^'. }      Pharmaceutical  Events  in  1870.  565 
speculation,  but  believe  that  legitimate  business  must  and  will  go 
on.  Use  your  efforts  to  bring  about  recessions  in  an  orderly  man- 
ner. Carry  the  message  of  thrift  and  reduction  into  every  drug 
store,  not  only  of  Missouri,  but  of  this  great  country  where  re- 
sources and  markets  are  enormous  when  compared  with  any  other 
country  of  the  world. 
Do  this,  and  when  we  hear  the  cry,  "Watchman,  what  of  the 
night?"  the  answer  will  be,  "All  is  well  in  drugdom." 
PHARMACEUTICAL  EVENTS  IN  1870.* 
By  Otto  Raubenheimer,  Ph.M. 
brooki.yn,  n.  y. 
In  connection  with  the  Golden  Jubilee  of  the  New  Jersey  Pharma- 
ceutical Association  it  might  be  of  interest  to  learn  what  other  im- 
portant events  in  the  field  of  pharmacy  and  allied  sciences  have 
taken  place  in  1870,  the  year  of  the  birth  of  the  Association.  The 
arrangement  of  the  paper,  in  conformity  with  a  number  of  others 
presented  at  the  Historical  Section  of  the  A.  Ph.  A.  on  the  subject 
"Pharmaceutical  Events  a  Century  Ago,"  is  as  follows: 
1.  Of  General  Interest. 
2.  Events,  Pharmaceutical,  Chemical,  etc. 
3.  Inventions  and  discoveries. 
4.  Bibliography. 
5.  Pharmacists  and  others  born  in  1870. 
6.  Pharmacists  and  others  who  died  in  1870. 
OF  GKNKRAIv  INTEJREST. 
March  30,  1870 — the  15th  Amendment  of  the  Constitution  of 
the  United  States  was  ratified,  viz.: 
"The  right  of  citizens  of  the  United  States  to  vote  shall  not  be 
denied  or  abridged  by  the  United  States  or  by  any  State,  on  account 
of  race,  color,  or  previous  conditions  of  servitude." 
May  2  5 — Organization  of  English  Committee  to  revise  an  author- 
ized version  of  the  Bible. 
*  Read  at  the  meeting  of  the  New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
Newark,  June,  1920. 
