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EDITORIAL. 
The  whole  set  from  the  beginning  may  be  had  for  twelve  or  thirteen  dol- 
lars, and  those  who  desire  them  should  attend  to  it  soon  before  they  are 
out  of  print. 
Burgoyne,  Burbidges  &  Squire's  Monthly  Price  Current,  16  Coleman  Street, 
London.    Established  A.  D.  1741  ;  pp.  16,  folio. 
For  some  months  past  this  extraordinary  circular  has  been  received  at 
our  office,  and,  as  a  curiosity  in  its  way,  we  may  notice  its  contents  cursor- 
ily. The  firm  are  wholesale  druggists,  and  dealers  in  everything  apper- 
taining to  a  druggist's  wants,  including  drugs,  chemicals,  oils,  glassware, 
paints,  dyes  and  sundries,  instruments  of  all  kinds,  medicine  chests,  etc. 
The  circular  is  closely  printed  on  thin  tissue  writing  paper,  each  page  be- 
ing 16  by  20£  inches,  in  columns,  and  priced.  The  editing  this  circular 
intelligently  must  involve  a  great  amount  of  labor  and  business  talent.  At 
the  bottom  of  the  last  page  are  two  columns,  exhibiting,  first,  articles 
which  are  higher  in  price  than  last  month  ;  second,  articles  which  are 
lower  in  price  than  last  month.  These  enable  the  consuiter  to  ascertain, 
without  going  over  the  whole  circular,  the  most  important  changes. 
Braithwaite's  Retrospect  of  Practical  Medicine  and  Surgery,  Part  LIV., 
January,  1867.     New  York:  W.  A.  Townsend  publisher;  pp.  304. 
This  semi. annual  has  been  received  from  the  publisher.    It  contains 
the  usual  digest  of  the  important  papers  of  the  medical  journals,  more 
especially  of  the  English  journals. 
Special  Notice. 
Dr.  Otto  C.  Berg  died  at  Berlin,  on  the  20th  day  of  November,  1866, 
after  an  activity  there  of  more  than  twenty  years,  as  professor  of  botany 
and  pharmacognosy.  As  teacher  and  author,  and  through  his  noble  cha- 
racter, he  has  secured  for  himself  the  esteem  and  love  of  all  who  had  the 
pleasure  of  knowing  him.  The  circle  of  his  pupils  and  his  admirers  is 
therefore  very  large,  and  his  early  death  is  deeply  felt,  not  only  at  the 
scene  of  his  labors,  but  wherever  science  is  cultivated. 
In  accordance  with  the  expressed  wish  of  his  friends  and  pupils,  to  pay 
a  lasting  tribute  to  the  memory  of  the  departed,  by  erecting  a  monument 
over  his  tomb,  at  the  Dorotheenstadt  Cemetery,  as  has  been  done  to  his 
former  colleagues,  Lintz,  Ritter,  Enke,  J.  Miiller,  Mitscherlich,  and  H. 
Rose,  a  committee  has  been  organized  at  Berlin  to  collect  the  requisite 
funds.  For  the  purpose  of  affording  an  opportunity  to  his  former  pupils, 
friends  and  admirers  to  aid  in  this  undertaking,  the  undersigned  beg  to 
inform  them  that  they  are  willing  to  receive  contributions,  to  forward  the 
same  to  the  Central  Committee  at  Berlin,  and  to  account  therefor  at  the 
proper  time.        Dr.  Fr.  Hoffmann,  243  East  10th  Street,  New  York. 
Rob.  Wendler,  370  Atlantic  Street,  Brooklyn. 
J.  M.  Maisch,  1607  Ridge  Avenue,  Philadelphia. 
