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Barker,  who,  for  a  consideration  of  $500,  ceded  to  Durand  a  ten  years'  lease. 
The  necessary  alterations  were  rapidly  pushed  forward,  and  on  the  reception 
of  his  goods  he  fitted  up  the  store  at  considerable  expense,  using  French  glass 
ware,  porcelain  jars,  mahogany  drawers  and  marble  counter,  in  a  style  unique 
and  attractive  in  that  day.  But  the  most  important  part  was  the  stock  of  drugs 
and  chemicals  he  had  selected,  including  many  novelties,  and  the  apparatus  for 
making  and  vending  carbonic  acid  water. 
Coming  well  recommended  from  Baltimore,  as  well  as  from  abroad,  the  prin- 
cipal physicians,  Physic,  La  Roche,  Monges,  Bache,  Jackson,  Griffith,  Dewees 
and  others  were  prompt  in  patronizing  the  store,  and  its  enterprizing  proprie- 
tor soon  had  a  flourishing  business. 
On  the  25th  of  October,  1825,  Mr.  Durand  married  a  second  time,  to  Miss 
M  arie  Antoinette  Berauld,  daughter  of  a  merchant  of  Norfolk,  Ya.,  one  of  the 
French  refugees  from  the  St.  Domingo  Insurrection.  (He  had  four  children 
by  this  marriage,  all  of  whom  died  young,  except  his  son,  Alfred  B.  Durand, 
who  survives  him.) 
In  1825  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Academy  of  Natural  Sciences  of 
Philadelphia.  This  brought  him  into  contact  with  men  of  science  and  opened 
a  field  of  usefulness  for  his  botanical  talents,  which  he  cultivated  with  great 
zeal  and  success,  and  corresponded  with  many  botanists  in  Europe,  by  which 
his  collection  of  plants  was  greatly  extended.  In  the  same  year  he  be- 
came a  member  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  and  in  1832  was 
elected  a  corresponding  member  of  the  SocieU  de  Pharmacie  of  Paris,  and 
contributed  valuable  original  articles  to  the  Journals  of  both  Societies.  In 
fact  he  wrote  the  first  article  of  the  first  regular  series  of  the  American  Jour-< 
nal  of  Pharmacy,  and  others  are  scattered  through  the  following  ten  vol- 
umes. In  1829,  in  connection  with  Dr.  Togno,  he  translated  and  published 
Edwards  and  Vavasseur's  Manual  of  Materia  Medica  and  Pharmacy,  to  which 
he  made  many  additions  of  a  pharmaceutical  character,  before  the  publication 
of  the  United  States  Dispensatory. 
At  the  period  when  Durand  opened  his  store  French  Pharmacy  stood  con* 
fessedly  by  far  in  advance  of  that  of  all  other  countries,  whilst  his  thorough 
education  and  recent  visit  to  France  for  stock,  etc.,  gave  him  such  great  ad- 
vantages that  his  store  became  an  important  centre  of  pharmaceutical  infor- 
mation, which  directly  and  indirectly  had  much  to  do  with  the  introduction  of 
scientific  pharmacy  into  Philadelphia,  and  through  this  College,  its  Journal  and 
graduates  into  the  United  States.  Many  of  the  finer  medicinal  chemicals  were 
made  in  this  country  first  by  Durand,  which  gave  him  a  prestige  in  that  direc- 
tion, and  his  great  skill  as  a  pharmaceutist,  his  untiring  industry,  close  attention 
to  business  and  social  and  scientific  qualities  attracted  the  most  eminent  phy- 
sicians to  his  store,  which  became  the  daily  resort  of  such  men  as  Drs.  Horner, 
McClellan,  Mitchell,  Meigs,  Mutter,  Bache  and  Groddard.  The  possession  of 
a  good  library,  and  the  monthly  reception  ot  important  foreign  journals,  enabled 
him  to  study  new  medicines  promptly ;  and,  in  looking  back,  it  will  be  found 
that  many  new  preparations,  as  solution  of  iodide  of  iron,  Kermes  mineral  as 
now  made,  iodide  of  arsenic,  iron  by  hydrogen,  etc.,  were  first  introduced 
through  his  store.    This  devotion  to  his  profession  soon  rendered  "  Durand's 
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