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CATALOGUE  OF  THE  CLASS. 
if  we  may  judge  by  the  list  of  medicines.  It  is  a  companion  to  the 
practitioner  and  a  great  aid  to  the  physician  in  his  daily  rounds  in 
emergencies,  as  well  as  affording  a  regular  daily  record. 
East  India  [Chinchona  Plant).    Return  to  an  address  of  the  Honorable 
the  House  of  Commons,  dated  14th  May,  1866,  for  "  Copy  of  further 
Correspondence  relating  to  the  Introduction  of  the  Chinchona  Plant 
into  India,  and  to  Proceedings  connected  with  its  Cultivation  from 
April,  1863,  to  April,  1866."    India  Office,  June,  1866.    Printed  by 
order  of  the  House  of  Commons,  June  18, 1866.    Folio,  pp.  377. 
We  are  indebted  to  Mr.  Daniel  Hanbury,  F.  R.  S.,  of  London,  for  this 
valuable  expose  of  the  progress  of  the  cinchona  culture  in  India,  illus- 
trated by  maps  and  wood  engravings,  and  hope  to  make  some  extracts 
from  it  for  the  benefit  of  our  readers. 
George  Getz  Shumard,  M.D. — Dr.  Geo.  G.  Shumard  was  born  at  Bur- 
lington, N.  J.,  in  1825,  but  while  still  a  child  removed  to  Cincinnati, 
where  his  boyhood  and  early  manhood  were  spent.  Having  completed 
his  academic  course  at  Woodward  College,  he  commenced  the  study  of 
medicine,  attended  one  course  of  lectures  at  the  Medical  College  of  Ohio, 
and  graduated  at  the  University  of  Louisville  in  1847.  He  first  located 
at  Albion,  111.,  and  later  at  Fort  Smith,  Ark.,  where  he  had  his  home 
until  the  breaking  out  6f  the  war.  A  scientific  and  practical  geologist,  he 
made  a  number  of  private  explorations,  and  accompanied  the  Red  River 
Exploring  Expedition,  commanded  by  Captain,  now  Brigadier  General, 
R.  B.  Marcy,  U  S.A.,  and  the  "Artesian  Well  Expedition,"  commanded 
by  Captain,  now  Major  General,  John  Pope,  U.S.A.  Still  later,  Dr. 
Shumard  was  State  Geologist  of  Texas.  His  various  scientific  reports, 
made  from  time  to  time,  are  well  known,  and  the  profession  will  remem- 
ber his  discovery  of  an  American  substitute  for  gum  arabic — mesquite 
gum. — Cincinnati  Lancet,  Nov.,  1867. 
Catalogue  of  the  Class  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
FOR  THE  FORTY-SEVENTH  SESSION,  1867-68. 
OBITUARY. 
With  a  List  of  their  Preceptors  and  Localities. 
MATRICULANTS, 
TOWN  OR  COUNTY. 
STATE. 
PRECEPTOR. 
Ball,  Ellwood, 
Barton,  G.  W. 
Bates,  Louis  A. 
Beck,  John  W. 
Bell,  James  S. 
Philadelphia, 
Alabama,  ' 
Ohio, 
Canada  West, 
Pennsylvania, 
Pennsylvania, 
H.  Gerhard. 
J.  R.  Angney,  M.D. 
Black,  James  D.- 
Blake,  Amos  R. 
Bodine,  James  P. 
Montgomery, 
Lancaster, 
Albion, 
Philadelphia, 
J.  T.  Hufnal. 
G.  G  Beck. 
E.  Parrish. 
A.  B.  Taylor. 
Thomas  Blake,  M.D. 
A.  Warren. 
Bordentown, 
New  Jersey, 
