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contributed  to  by  Dr.  Pereira  and  Mr.  Howard),  with  their  principles  and 
salts.  Many  of  these  specimens  are  of  great  interest  for  illustration,  and 
have  the  initials  of  Pereira  and  of  Howard  upon  their  labels.  The  sennas 
are  also  abundantly  illustrated. 
The  second  room  contains  the  products  of  monocotyledonous  and  crypto- 
gamous  plants.  Excellent  collections  of  cardamoms,  aloes,  starches  and 
sarsaparillas  are  found  here,  including  nearly  all  the  varieties  known.  To 
illustrate  the  fungi,  models  are  shown,  colored  to  represent  the  living 
plants.  In  the  collection  of  animal  substances  is  a  stuffed  musk  deer,  and 
a  sturgeon,— -the  latter  used  to  explain  the  subject  of  isinglass,  and  a  great 
variety  of  substances  of  animal  origin,  including  all  that  are  officinal  and 
many  non-officinal,  as  bezoar,  hyraceum,  ambergris,  coral,  etc.  The 
anatomy  of  the  leech  is  represented  by  model,  and  the  subjects  of  cantharis  , 
and  cochineal  by  numerous  specimens. 
In  the  mineral  room  the  finer  chemicals  and  organic  salts  are  exhibited 
in  flat  cases,  the  substances,  when  rare,  being  contained  in  shallow  goblets 
covered  with  plate  glass.  There  are  several  very  good  sets  of  models  of 
crystals,  of  glass  and  wood,  and  skeleton  crystals,  and,  in  many  instances, 
a  salt  is  accompanied  by  a  model  of  its  crystal.  There  are  many  fine 
crystallizations  of  the  mineral  salts,  and  also  a  collection  of  coal-tar  pro- 
ducts. Various  other  objects  connected  with  pharmacy,  besides  drugs,  are 
seen,  but  we  did  not  find  a  museum  of  apparatus  and  appliances,  nor  was 
there  a  collection  of  pharmaceutical  preparations  observed. 
The  lecture  room  is  quite  small,  and  will  not  accommodate  more  than 
one  hundred  students  ;  it  is  amphi theatrical  in  arrangement.  Nothing 
surprised  us  more  than  this  evidence  of  the  small  number  of  students  in 
the  most  populous  city  of  the  world.  The  library  we  did  not  get  time 
even  to  glance  over.  The  laboratory  for  practical  instruction  occupies  the 
new  upper  story,  built  by  the  legacy  of  Mr.  Bell.  The  room  is  well  ar- 
ranged for  the  purpose  in  view  ;  the  tables  are  placed  around  the  exterior 
of  the  room  as  well  as  in  the  centre,  and  appear  well  adapted  to  the  pur- 
poses in  the  details  of  each  table  or  counter,  and  the  general  arrangements 
for  heating,  ventilation,  weighing,  etc.  The  laboratory  was  in  operation 
at  the  time,  a  number  of  students  being  at  work,  but  the  director,  Dr.  Att- 
field,  and  his  assistant,  Mr.  Tilden,  afforded  all  the  facilities  for  seeing  the 
establishment  that  the  short  time  permitted,  I  also  had  the  pleasure 
of  meeting  Prof.  Redwood,  Prof.  Bentley,  and  the  very  polite  and  attentive 
Secretary  and  Registrar  of  the  Society,  Mr.  Bremridge,  whose  devotion  to 
its  interests  is  one  of  the  best  agencies  at  work  in  the  advancement  of  the 
Society.  Nearly  always  on  the  spot,  he  is  ready  to  meet  the  numerous 
calls  for  information  which  so  extensive  a  Society  demands.  Unfortunate- 
ly, the  season  was  past  for  the  "  Pharmaceutical  Meetings/5  and  no  oppor- 
tunity to  be  present  on  one  of  these  occasions  was  afforded. 
A  brief  call  at  the  establishment  of  the  late  Jacob  Bell,  on  Oxford  street, 
introduced  me  to  the  acquaintance  of  Mr.  Barnard,  of  the  present  firm,— 
