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EDITORIAL. 
€bttortdl  Department. 
Meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.— From  all 
the  indications  that  we  have  been  able  to  observe,  there  appears  to  be  every 
probability  that  the  Association  will  hold  a  meeting  the  present  year, 
and  that  the  place  will  be  Philadelphia.  Should  it  be  so  determined,  the 
members  will  be  notified  by  a  call  of  the  President  in  the  May 
Journals.  Assuming  that  such  will  be  the  case,  the  chairman  of  the 
Executive  Committee  desires  to  call  the  attention  of  all  those  gentlemen 
who  accepted  subjects  for  investigation,  at  the  New  York  meeting  in 
1860,  to  the  fact,  and  to  ask  their  earnest  endeavors  to  be  prepared 
to  present  them  for  reading  in  August  next,  so  that  the  interest  of  the 
meeting  may  be  sustained,  even  if  the  numbers  that  attend  should  be 
small.  In  a  recent  conversation  with  a  member  from  Illinois,  the 
opinion  was  expressed  that  the  time  selected,  August  27,  was  one 
favorable  for  western  men,  and  that  the  chances  of  attendance  from  his 
neighborhood  were  greatly  in  favor  of  an  eastern  locality,  as  business  often 
called  them  to  go  East  at  that  time.  The  following  gentlemen  accepted 
subjects  in  1860,  and  will  be  expected  to  report  in  August  next,  viz. ; 
William  Procter,  Jr.,  Philadelphia,  Henry  F.  Fish,  Waterbury,  Ct., 
Thomas  A.  Lancaster,        <;  P.  Wendover  Bedford,  New  York  City, 
James  T.  Shinn,  "  Wm.  J.  Watson,  " 
Benj.  J.  Crew,  11  John  Faber,  " 
William  R.  Warner,  11  Frederick  F.  Meyer,  " 
Charles  Bullock.  "  Alexander  Cushman,  " 
E.  Donnelly,  M.  D.,  "  Geo.  W.  Weyman,  Pittsburg,  Pa., 
Geo.  J.  Scattergood,  "  E.  M.  Blatchford,  Rockford,  Mass., 
Prof.  Joseph  Carson,  "  Frederick  Stearns,  Detroit,  Mich., 
Prof.  Robert  P.  Thomas,     "  J.  L.  Lemberger,  Lebanon,  Pa., 
Edward  Parrish,  Henry  T.  Cummings,  Portland,  Me., 
John  M.  Maisch,  "  F.  Chapman  Hill,  Antioch  College,  0., 
Thomas  S.  Wiegand,         "  Dr.  E.  R.  Squibb,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
Charles  Shivers,  "  Alpheus  P.  Sharp,  Baltimore, 
Evan  T.  Ellis,  "  Louis  H.  Dohme,  " 
Wm.  J.  M.  Gordon,  Cincinnati,  Charles  Caspari,  " 
Henry  A.  Tilden,  New  Lebanon,  N.  Y.  James  Balmer,  " 
Robert  Battey,  M.  D.,  Rome,  Georgia. 
By  consulting  the  Proceedings  of  1860,  page  vi.,  or  the  American  Jour- 
nal of  Pharmacy,  for  November,  1860,  page  514,  the  subjects  for  investi- 
gation will  be  found  stated  in  full. 
Specimens  of  Materia  Medica  for  the  London  Exhibition. — In  the 
November  issue  of  this  journal  our  readers  were  informed  of  the  intention 
of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  to  make  an  effort  to  get  together 
a  collection  of  the  materia  medica  of  the  United  States  for  deposition  in 
