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EDITORIAL. 
to  both  work  and  contribute.  No  more  disinterested  and  purely  scientific 
corporation  exists  among  us,  whose  aims  are  solely  to  benefit  the  com- 
munity by  enlightening  and  educating' the  coming  generation  of  pharma- 
ceutists, without,  so  far,  the  smallest  return  to  the  members  in  any  other 
shape  but  that  of  satisfaction  for  well-doing,  and  the  assurance  of  giving 
the  community  better  service  in  the  responsible  business  of  dispensing 
medicines.  Should  the  views  now  entertained  of  the  project  be  carried 
out,  it  is  believed  that  ample  accommodation  will  be  furnished  for  a  li- 
brary and  reading  room,  where  members  may  resort  weekly  or  daily,  a 
hall  for  general  meetings  of  ample  size,  a  museum,  two  large  lecture 
rooms,  and,  overall,  a  commodious,  well  lighted  and  ventilated  room  for 
a  practical  school  of  chemistry  and  pharmacy,  where  analytical  and  in- 
dustrial chemistry  maybe  thoroughly  taught, — affording  the  first  instance 
in  this  country  of  this  form  of  tuition,  so  well  illustrated  in  London,  and 
at  Zurich  and  other  continental  establishments.  To  the  pharmaceutist 
this  will  give  a  finishing  touch  to  his  home  opportunities,  or,  where  such  are 
few,  will  substitute  them  ;  but  to  the  student  with  wholesale  druggists  and 
chemists  it  will  open  out  a  self-aiding  power  that  will  be  of  the  first  im- 
portance to  his  business  success  in  the  fabrication  of  products. 
Proceedings  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  its  Fifteenth 
Annual  Meeting,  held  in  New  York  Sept.  11th,  1867  ;  also  the  Consti- 
tution and  Poll  of  Members.    Philadelphia,  1867  ;  pp.  453,  octavo. 
We  congratulate  the  Executive  Committee,  and  especially  the  Perma- 
nent Secretary,  for  their  success  in  getting  out  the  volume  within  the 
year,  and  especially  with  its  improved  appearance  and  greater  size  For 
the  quality  of  the  essays  the  reader  is  referred  to  many  samples  in  this 
number,  which  speak  well  for  the  efforts  of  the  members.  But  the  strength 
of  the  work  will  be  seen  in  the  more  detailed  phonographic  report  of  the 
discussions,  and  the  ample  report  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy.  We 
trust  the  Committee  will  be  favored  to  effect  the  distribution  of  the  vol- 
ume as  speedily  as  possible. 
Congres  General  des  Pharmaciens  de  France  et  de  V  Etr anger  tenu  les  4, 
5,  et  6  Juillet,  1867,  au  Conservatoire  des  Arts  et  Metiers,  a  Paris. 
Compt.  Rendus,  Paris  chez  Asselin,  Librarie-editeur,  Place  Ecole  de 
medecin,  1867,  pp.  233,  octavo. 
Our  readers  are,  perhaps,  not  generally  aware  that,  Reside  the  two 
Pharmaceutical  Conventions  held  in  Paris  in  August,  noticed  in  our  last, 
a  much  larger  gathering  convened  in  the  same  city  on  the  fourth  of  July 
previously,  at  the  Conservatoire  des  Arts  et  Metiers,  of  which  the  above 
volume  is  the  published  proceedings.  The  Assembly  was  duly  authorized 
by  the  Minister  of  the  Interior,  and  permission  obtained  to  meet  in 
the  noted  Museum  at  the  Conservatoire.  656  pharmaciens  were  present, 
of  whom  317  were  from  Paris,  327  from  the  departments  of  France,  and 
