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editorial  matters  should  be  addressed  to  Prof.  John  M.  Maisch,  1607 
Ridge  Avenue,  Philadelphia,  until  September  next.  All  business  letters 
referring  to  the  finances  or  distribution  of  the  Journal  must  be  sent  to 
Charles  Ellis,  Son  &  Co.,  north-east  corner  of  Seventh  and  Market  Streets. 
Mr.  Peabodv's  Munificence. — The  extraordinary  liberality  of  George 
Peabody,  in  the  endowment  of  literary  and  scientific  institutions  during 
the  past  year,  18G6,  is  worthy  of  notice  by  every  journalist  to  whom 
science  and  education  is  dear.  One  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars 
were  given  to  Harvard,  to  maintain  a  Museum  and  Professorship  of 
American  Archasology  and  Ethnology;  $150,000  to  Yale  College,  for 
the  establishment  and  maintenance  of  a  Museum  of  Natural  History, 
especially  of  the  departments  of  Zoology,  Geology  and  Mineralogy. 
Besides  these  gifts,  the  donor  has  already  given  $1,000,000  to  the  Peabody 
Institute,  Baltimore  ;  $250,000  to  the  institution  bearing  his  name  in  his 
native  town  of  Danvers,  Mass. ;  $25,000  to  Phillip's  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.  ;  $25,000  to  Kenyon  College,  Ohio,  both  for  the  extension  of 
instruction  in  the  natural  sciences  and  mathematics ;  $20,000  to  the 
library  of  the  Maryland  Historical  Society,  and  several  other  smaller 
donations  in  Massachusetts*and  Vermont. 
More  recently  we  learn  from  the  papers  that  a  very  large  sum  in  cash 
and  bonds,  amounting  to  about  two  millions  of  dollars  in  all,  has  been 
intrusted  to  a  board  of  gentlemen  for  the  promotion  of  education  in  the 
Southern  States.  The  influence  of  these  noble  gifts  on  the  next  genera- 
tion must  be  sensibly  felt,  and  will  form  a  monument  to  the  donor's 
munificence  more  deserving  than  granite  or  marble. 
On  the  Relative  Positions  of  the  Physician  and  Apothecary  in 
the  Sale  of  Liquors  and  Wines  for  Medical  Purposes,  as  regards 
the  Internal  Revenue  Liquor  Law. — Whatever  may  be  the  practice 
of  druggists  anil  apothecaries  in  the  sale  of  liquors  without  a  license,  the 
law  of  Congress  is  sufficiently  explicit  that  they  shall  require  a  written 
prescription  from  the  physician.  Those  apothecaries  who  conscientiously 
desire  to  act  up  to  the  legal  requirements  are  met  by  the  difficulty  that 
physicians  are  constantly  prescribing  liquors,  especially  brandy  and 
whisky,  without  writing  a  prescription  for  them.  That  large  portion  of 
the  public  who  use  liquors  only  as  medicines  prefer  to  get  them,  when 
needed,  of  the  apothecary  ;  and,  unless  he  happens  to  be  among  the  few 
who  make  liquors  a  business  speciality  and  take  out  a  license,  he  is  unable 
to  supply  the  demand  legally — merely  because  the  physician  has  not  per- 
formed his  part.  The  object  of  this  article  is  therefore  respectfully  to 
request  our  medical  cotemporaries  to  direct  the  attention  of  their  readers, 
by  some  pointed  remarks,  to  the  importance,  on  all  occasions  when  they 
prescribe  liquors  not  in  possession  of  the  patient,  to  do  it  in  writing. 
This  course  will  greatly  subserve  the  cause  of  temperance,  relieve  the 
