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two  pharmacognostical,  six  technical,  three  on  biological  standard- 
ization and  sixteen  on  miscellaneous  subjects,  quarterly  reviews  in 
progress  of  Pharmacy;  thirty-one  book  reviews;  a  symposium  on 
maceration  and  percolation,  eight  notes  from  correspondents,  also 
reports  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeial  Convention,  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  the  National 
Wholesale  Druggists  Association,  the  American  Conference  of 
Pharmaceutical  Faculties,  the  Tenth  International  Pharmacopoeial 
Congress,  Minutes  of  the  College  meetings.  Minutes  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees  and  pharmaceutical  meetings,  abstracts  of  special 
lectures,  memorial  and  obituary  notes,  abstracts  and  miscellaneous 
notes. 
The  most  notable  feature  of  the  Journal  the  past  year  has  been 
the  large  number  of  papers  dealing  with  methods  and  standards 
of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia,  many  of  these  papers  were 
contributed  by  the  chemists  of  the  U.  S.  Public  Health  and  Marine 
Hospital  Service.  Without  enumerating  more  of  these  papers  it 
may  be  said  that  they  are  of  an  unusually  high  order  of  merit  and 
will  no  doubt  be  widely  consulted. 
Curator's  Report.  The  question  of  the  identity  of  drugs  has 
become  a  most  important  question,  because  the  dealer  guarantees 
the  identity  of  the  drugs  sold,  according  to  certain  standards,  or 
suffer  legal  penalties  if  the  goods  be  improperly  branded.  For  this 
reason  it  has  become  essential  that  specimens  of  drugs  of  doubtful 
identity,  either  wholly  or  in  part,  must  be  compared  with  specimens 
of  undoubted  genuineness.  For  this  purpose  standard  specimens 
of  drugs  are  most  necessary,  and  it  may  be  fairly  claimed  that  the 
drug  collections  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  are  prob- 
ably the  best  of  their  kind  in  this  country.  These  collections  are 
of  undoubted  authenticity  and  are  rare  and  valuable.  They  are 
being  consulted  more  and  more  by  the  pharmaceutical  public  and 
to  make  them  more  valuable  an  endeavor  should  be  made  to  cover 
the  entire  field  of  vegetable  drugs,  every  genera  and  species  and 
varieties  of  plants  having  medicinal  value  should  be  added  to  the 
collections.  Such  a  collection  would  be  of  immense  value  for  refer- 
ence not  only  to  retail,  wholesale  and  manufacturing  pharmacists, 
but  also  to  government  authorities  in  their  legal  prosecutions. 
Librarian's  Report.  The  Library  Committee  has  gone  to  con- 
siderable expense  for  re-organization.    Fifteen  hundred  books  have 
