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The  Richmond  Pharmaceutical  Association. — We  are  pleased  to  state 
that  this  Association  has  been  added  to  the  number  of  pharmaceutical  socie- 
ties already  in  existence  in  the  United  States.  A  vast  field  for  good  work  is 
before  it,  and  we  feel  sure  will  be  well  cultivated.  The  Association  was  defi- 
nitely organized,  November  10th,  by  the  election  of  the  following  officers* 
President,  Hugh  Blair;  Vice-Presidents,  John  Purcell  and  Dr.  John  R.  Gar- 
nett ;  Recording  Secretary,  Jos.  N.  Willis  ;  Corresponding  Secretary,  T.  Rob- 
erts Baker;  Treasurer,  Henry  Bodeker  ;  Executive  Committee,  the  President 
and  Recording  Secretary,  ex  officio,  R.  H.  Meade,  Powhatan  E.  Dupuy  and 
John  B.  Purcell. 
The  Association  will  meet  regularly  the  second  Monday  evening  in  every 
month. 
The  Alumni  Association  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  has 
resolved  to  place  an  album  containing  the  photographs  of  the  graduates  of  this 
College  in  the  College  library,  and  requests  all  graduates  to  send  their  card 
pictures  to  on©  of  the  officers.  The  Association  named  is  already  looking  for- 
ward to  the  Commencement  exercises.,  which  are  to  take  place  on  the  12th  of 
March  next.  On  the  evening  preceding  the  Commencement  a  reception  will 
be  given  to  the  graduating  class,  for  which  occasion  it  is  proposed  to  invite- 
with  the  members  and  guests  their  lady  friends.  Mr.  William  C.  Bakes,  Class 
1855,  will  deliver  the  annual  address. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
An  American  Dictionary  of  the  English  Language.  By  Noah  Webster,  L.L.D. 
Thoroughly  revised  and  greatly  enlarged  and  improved  by  Chauncey  A. 
Goodrich,  D.D.,  late  Professor  of  Rhetoric  and  Oratory,  and  also  Professor 
of  the  Pastoral  Charge,  in  Yale  College,  and  Noah  Porter,  D  D.,  L.L.D., 
President  of  Yale  College.  Springfield,  Mass.:  Published  by  G.  &  C.  Mer- 
riam.  1873.  Royal  4to,  1840  pages.  With  3000  engravings.  Full  sheep, 
marbled  ed^e.    Price  $12. 
The  value  of  Noah  Webster's  dictionary  is  so  universally  acknowledged  that 
the  work  itself  needs  no  praise  from  us.  As  a  standard  of  orthography,  ortho- 
epy and  etymology  it  stands  unrivalled,  and  has  received  the  endorsements  of 
the  best  scholars,  and  sustained  its  high  reputation,  at  home  and  abroad,  for 
more  than  a  generation.  In  fact,  it  is  a  monument  of  careful  research,  of  com- 
pleteness and  general  accuracy,  and  as  such  is  a  work  of  practical  utility  and 
almost  indispensable  necessity. 
The  new  edition  before  us  has  been  carefully  prepared,  and  in  glancing  over 
the  definitions  of  the  technical  terms  employed  in  pharmacy  and  medicine  we 
find  them  clear,  concise  and  correct,  with  one  exception:  Pint  is  defined  to- 
mean  in  medicine  twelve  ounces,  while  in'  the  United  States  it  is  sixteen  fluid- 
ounces,  or  the  measure  of  a  little  more  than  sixteen  and  a  half  ounces  avoir- 
dupois of  water  at  the  temperature  of  60°  F.,  and  in  Great  Britain  signifies, 
since  the  introduction  of  the  British  Pharmacopoeia,  the  measure  of  exactly 
twenty  ounces  of  distilled  water. 
The  work  is  handsomely  gotten  up,  the  paper  good,  the  types  clear  and  the 
pictorial  illustrations  generally  unexceptionable. 
