EDITORIAL.  565 
The  semi-annual  election  being  in  order,  the  Teller  reported  the  election 
as  Trustees  of 
Dr.  W.  H.  Pile,  Edwd.  Parrish,  A.  B.  Taylor, 
Evan  T.  Ellis,  Wm.  C.  Bakes,  Wm.  J.  Jenks, 
H.  N,  Rittenhouse,  Chas.  Shivers. 
Committee  on  Deceased  Members. 
Edward  Parrish,  Wm.  Procter,  Jr.,  Chas.  Bullock. 
On  motion,  then  adjourned. 
Charles  Bullock,  Secretary. 
editorial  ^Department 
Europe  and  the  Paris  Exhibition. — The  visitor  at  the  International 
Exhibition  at  Paris,  who  pretends  to  give  a  report  of  what  is  there  to  be 
seen,  needs  to  be  well  provided  with  time  and  writing  materials;  for 
so  extended  is  the  display  and  so  numerous  are  the  details,  that  many  days 
are  required  for  even  a  cursory  examination,  and  much  more  for  a  com- 
parison of  the  specimens,  even  in  the  classes  that  specially  interest  the 
pharmacutist,  (classes  40,  43  and  44.^)  The  collections  of  drugs  and 
medical  substances  in  the  departments  of  Brazil,  Turkeyj  Australia,  India 
and  Algeria,  are  quite  numerous,  and  many  of  them  very  curious.  The 
French  and  British  governments  have  taken  special  pains  to  gather  the 
productions  of  their  colonies,  and  the  Turkish  government,  including 
Egypt,  is  very  well  represented  in  this  class.  There  are  also  numerous 
objects  of  interest  to  the  pharmaceutist  in  the  collections  of  nearly 
every  country  of  Europe  and  their  colonies.  Of  the  more  important  of 
these  collections  we  obtained  the  special  reports  through  the  kindness  of 
B.  L.  Simmonds,  Esq.,  of  London,  the  British  Commissioner  for  those  classes, 
who  greatly  aided  us,  by  personal  attentions,  in  finding  the  more  import- 
ant  groups.  We  hope,  by  the  aid  of  these  reports,  and  some  notes  taken  on 
the  spot,  to  recur  to  this  subject  at  an  early  date.  European  pharmacy 
is  more  particularly  illustrated  in  the  44th  class,  which  embraces  "  chemi- 
cal and  pharmaceutical  products,"  and  one  might  spend  days  among  the 
numerous  collections  of  France,  Germany  and  England,  so  rich  are  they 
in  rare  and  beautiful  products  of  the  Laboratory. 
The  interest  of  the  pharmaceutist,  however,  is  not  confined  to  the 
classes  mentioned  ;  in  chemical,  pharmaceutical  and  philosophical  ap- 
paratus, metallic  ware,  glass  ware,  earthen  ware,  etc.,  there  are 
many  things  that  deserve  examination.  But  amid  so  much  that  is  attract- 
ive in  all  departments,  owing  to  novelty  or  beauty,  or  excellence,  it  should 
