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New  Orleans  College  of  Pharmacy,  New  Orleans,  La. 
University  of  Tennessee;  Memphis,  Tenn. 
Ohio  State  University,  Columbus,  Ohio. 
Medico-Chirurgical  College  of.Pharmacy,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
College  of  Pharmacy,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 
University  of  Colorado,  Boulder,  Colo. 
North  Pacific  College,  Portland,  Ore. 
University  of  Illinois,  Chicago,  111. 
Tulane  University  of  Louisiana,  New  Orleans,  La. 
South  Dakota  State  College,  Brookings,  S.  D. 
College  of  Pharmacy,  Ohio  Northern  Pharmacy,  Ada,  Ohio. 
Pittsburgh  College  of  Pharmacy,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Colleges  of  pharmacy  which  have  a  garden  of  medicinal  plants  for 
student  work : 
California  College  of  Pharmacy,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Purdue  University,  Lafayette,  Ind. 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Fordham  University,  College  of  Pharmacy,  Fordham,  N.  Y. 
University  of  Oklahoma,  Norman,  Okla. 
Colleges  of  pharmacy  which  are  doing  practical  work  in  the  culti- 
vation of  medicinal  plants : 
University  of  Minnesota,  Minneapolis,  Minn. — 
At  this  institution  a  number  of  medicinal  plants  are  propagated 
from  the  seed  each  year,  both  for  the  study  of  the  plant  by  the  student, 
and  practical  demonstration  work  in  the  drying,  curing,  preservation 
and  preparation  of  the  plants  for  the  market,  together  with  a  com- 
parison of  the  cultivated  plant  with  the  same  drug  as  found  on  the 
market. 
University  of  Wisconsin,  Madison,  Wis. — 
In  this  institution  the  work  of  their  medicinal  herb  garden  is  car- 
ried beyond  being  a  mere  adjunct  to  the  course  in  pharmacognosy. 
It  is  practically  a  northern  station  for  the  cultivation  of  medicinal 
plants,  working  in  cooperation  with  the  Department  of  Agriculture  at 
Washington.  Its  main  object  is  to  ascertain  what  medicinal  plants 
can  be  cultivated  advantageously  in  regions  having  a  climate  similar 
to  that  of  Wisconsin.  The  work  is  done  by  members  of  the  university 
staff,  in  conjunction  with  a  government  expert.  Their  reports  state 
that  their  activities  are  not  confined  to  the  material  raised  in  their 
medicinal  herb  garden,  but  have  extended  to  breeding  experiments  of 
such  drugs  as  Datura,  of  which  fifteen  or  twenty  species  and  varieties 
