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of  a  donation  of  $250  voluntarily  made  by  City  Council,  the  lot  being  presented 
by  Mr.  J.  Taylor  Cause,  and  the  city  granting  a  free  use  of  the  water.  The 
fountain  complete  was  made  by  Struthers  aod  Sons,  of  Philadelphia,  at  a  cost 
of  about  $2000.  The  enclosure  is  yet  to  be  neatly  paved,  and  will  have  a  neat 
iron  railing  of  a  light  pattern  when  finished. 
The  work  is  an  appropriate  memorial  of  one  whose  works  were  so  charitable 
and  benevolent,  and  at  the  same  time  so  disinterested  and  unassuming. 
The  Colleges  of  Pharmacy  in  the  United  States  have  larger  classes  during 
the  present  session  than  ever  before.  The  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
has  within  the  last  seven  years  more  than  doubled  the  number  of  its  students* 
and  all  other  Colleges  show  similar  marks  of  prosperity — a  sure  sign  that  the 
value  of  the  scientific  education  of  pharmacists  is  being  more  appreciated  now 
than  heretofore. 
The  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy  have  arranged  monthly  conversa- 
tional lectures,  which  will  be  delivered  by  Mr.  P.  Balluff,  Dr.  E.  R.  Squibb  and 
Professors  Day  and  Chandler. 
The  Louisville  College  of  Pharmacy  has  received  a  donation  to  its  cabinet 
from  Messrs.  E.  Sachsse  &  Co.,  Leipzig,  Germany,  of  19  specimens  of  fine  es- 
sential oils.  The  Board  of  Trustees,  at  their  meeting  of  Dec.  lGth,  instructed 
the  Corresponding  Secretary,  by  a  unanimous  vote,  to  tender,  through  the 
"  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,"  their  cordial  thanks  to  the  said  firm  for  its 
valued  gift.  Wm.  G.  Schmidt,  Corresponding  Sec'ry. 
The  Faculty  of  the  California  College  of  Pharmacy  has  been  constituted 
as  follows:  Max  Tschirner.  professor  of  Chemistry;  Wm.  T.  Wenzell,  profes- 
sor of  Pharmacy  :  Wm.  Searby,  professor  of  Materia  Medica,  and  fl.  H.  Behr, 
M.  D.,  professor  of  Botany. 
The  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain  held  a  pharmaceutical 
meeting  Dec.  4th,  Mr.  A.  F.  Haselden  presiding. 
Professor  Bentley  drew  the  attention  of  the  meeting  to  a  section  of  the 
baobab-tree,  which  had  been  forwarded  to  the  Society  by  Mr.  Baynes  who  was 
formerly  the  artist  of  the  Livingstone  expedition.  Mr.  Baynes  stated  that  the 
bark  was  used  as  a  substitute  for  quinia.  In  most  manuals  treating  of  the 
properties  and  uses  of  plants,  the  bark  of  the  baobab-tree  was  reputed  to  be 
used  medicinally,  and  as  an  authentication  of  that,  Mr.  Baynes'  contribution 
was  of  value. 
Dr.  Paul  asked  the  attention  of  the  meeting  to  a  table  which  had  been  for- 
warded by  Mr.  Ekin,  of  Bath,  in  which  the  nutritive  values  of  various  articles  of 
food  were  represented  on  the  basis  of  the  respective  percentage  of  carbon  and 
nitrogen.  This  mode  of  valuation  was  somewhat  hypothetical,  but  it  afforded  a 
fair  ground  of  comparison  between  different  articles  of  food  within  certain  lim- 
itations. The  table  was  constructed  in  such  a  way  as  to  show  these  comparative 
values  graphically.  Though  the  use  of  graphic  formulae  in  chemistry  were  not 
to  be  recommended  or  regarded  as  very  serviceable,  he  thought  that  in  a  case 
