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EDITORIAL. 
Boyden,  Treasurer  ;  Samuel M.  Colcord,  Auditor;  Daniel  Henchman,  and 
others,  Trustees. 
The  Graduating  Class  of  1862. — It  is  with  pleasure  that  we  chronicle 
an  incident  of  the  Commencement  evening  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy,  March  13th,  1862.  Just  before  the  Professors,  Trustees  and 
Graduates  elect  left  the  room  below  the  Musical  Fund  Hall,  where  the 
ceremony  was  to  take  place,  George  M.  Smyser  in  the  name  of  the 
Graduates  of  1862,  presented  a  portrait  of  Prof.  Samuel  Jackson,  of  the 
University,  the  oldest  living  ex-Professor  of  our  School  of  Pharmacy,  to  the 
College,  for  the  Museum  of  the  Institution.  The  gift  was  received  by  Prof. 
Robert  Bridges,  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Trustees.  The  speaking  on  the 
occasion,  though  necessarily  brief,  was  exceedingly  appropriate,  and  marked 
with  excellent  feeling.  We  are  informed  that  this  is  the  first  of  a  series  of 
portraits  with  which,  annually,  it  is  intended  to  adorn  the  wall  of  our 
Museum. 
The  Tax  Bill. — Those  readers  of  this  Journal  who  feel  interested  in  the 
proceedings  of  Congress,  relative  to  the  tax  bill,  in  its  bearing  on  the  sale  of 
medicines,  are  referred  to  the  report  of  a  Committee  of  the  Trustees  of  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  at  page  280. 
Journal  and  Transactions  of  the  Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy. — 
The  April  number  of  this  Journal  announces  its  suspension  for  the  present, 
owing  to  pecuniary  reasons.  We  regret  this  necessity  believing  that  no 
Pharmaceutical  Journal  has  ever  raised  its  voice  in  favor  of  the  right  in 
our  profession  with  greater  consistency  and  soundness.  When  the  politi- 
cal troubles  which  now  afflict  our  country  have  terminated,  and  peace  re- 
stores to  their  usual  channels  the  numerous  useful  enterprises  which  war  has 
suspended,  we  believe  that  our  Baltimore  friends  will  again  speak  forth  in 
their  own  organ  with  an  increased  energy  and  a  more  brilliant  fruitfulness. 
The  Pharmacopeia  Weights  and  Measures. — The  Committee  of  Revision 
have  decided  on  retaining  the  use  of  Troy  weight  in  the  Pharmacopoeia,  but 
have  discarded  the  use  of  the  terms  scruple,  drachm  an&pound.  This  has  been 
done  to  avoid  the  difficulty  arising  from  substituting  the  avoirdupois  pound 
of  16  ounces  for  the  Troy  pound  of  12  ounces.  When  any  quantity  less  than 
half  an  ounce  is  directed,  it  is  to  be  expressed  in  grains,  but  the  final  re- 
sult adopted  may  differ  from  this  arrangement.  The  Chairman  of  the 
Committee,  Dr.  Franklin  Bache,  is  now  engaged  in  the  tedious  and 
laborious  duty  of  preparing  the  manuscript  for  the  printer,  that  its  lan- 
guage may  present  a  homogeneous  character  throughout. 
Notice. — The  continuation  of  Rochleder's  Analysis,  and  several  book 
notices,  are  in  type,  but  have  been  crowded  out  by  the  College  Reports. 
