(gMtorial JDcpartment. 
Our pubscribers will be gratified, we doubt not, with the increase of 
size exhibited by the present number of the Journal. The additional 
sixteen pages will allow of much extension in the subjects deemed 
worthy of insertion, and embarass us less as regards the length of 
articles of high interest and importance. The concluding part of each 
number has hitherto been devoted to what has been termed Misceliany ; 
to commence with this issue, an alteration, and, as we conceive, an 
improvement will be adopted, which will consist of a department as 
entitled above, the Editorial. This will give the conductors of the 
Journal greater latitude for the insertion of matters not so formal in 
their character as those heretofore constituting the miscellany, and at 
the same time enable them to indulge in comments or remarks, sugges- 
tive or interrogatory, upon every thing connected with the interests of 
pharmaceutical science, or the regulation and mode of conducting the 
business of pharmacy. Room will thus be afforded for a system of 
correspondence between ourselves and those who may seek or com- 
municate informatiSn ; or between those who may make the Journal 
an organ. It is very desirable that the only Journal of Pharmacy in 
the country should be considered as pertaining to the entire profession, 
and we now offer to all who may be interested in the progress of 
improvement, the facilities which such a publication affords. 
The editor, who has previously appeared as the acting one, has been 
assisted by a committee of the College. Hereafter our colleague; 
Mr. Procter, will assume the responsibility of co-editor, and the same 
committee will continue its supervision. J. C. 
Our friend Edward Parrish has shown us a Syrup of Citrate of Iron 
which appears to be a good preparaiion. He first prepares a moist 
protocarbonate of iron, by mixing together solutions of sulphate of iron 
and carbonate of soda, precisely as directed for Vallet's ferruginous 
mass, and washing with sweetened water. This is then dissolved by 
means of a slight excess of citric acid in water, and evaporated to dry- 
ness. A greenish, deiiquescentj freely soluble; uncrystallizable salt 
