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Progress  in  Pharmacy, 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1906. 
entire  collections  were  rearranged  by  Fortune  under  Lindley's  direc- 
tion. The  system  of  Decandolle  was  subsequently  applied  to  a  part 
of  the  collections,  but  we  have  no  precise  information  as  to  when 
this  took  place.  From  the,  description  given  of  the  garden  by 
Sernple  in  1878  we  learn  that  both  Decandolle's  and  Lindley's  sys- 
tems were  at  that  date  represented  in  the  plantations  of  medicinal 
plants,  the  older  and  less  important  plantation  being  that  arranged 
according  to  the  system  of  Lindley.  The  portion  to  the  south  of 
the  centre  path  which  crosses  the  garden  from  the  students'  entrance 
in  Swan  Walk  to  the  opposite  side  was  occupied,  as  at  present,  by 
beds  of  hardy  herbaceous  plants,  and  the  plants  in  this  section  of 
the  garden  were  arranged  in  Decandollean  orders,  but  the  latter 
were  not  placed  in  sequence.  Near  the  centre  of  the  garden  there 
was  a  span-roofed  house  divided  into  "  stove  "  and  greenhouse,  and; 
devoted  to  medicinal  plants.  No  alteration  in  these  arrangements 
appears  to  have  been  made  until  the  garden  changed  hands,  and 
Mr.  Hales,  the  present  Curator,  informs  me  that,  when  he  took  over 
the  collections,  these,  although  much  deteriorated,  were  substantially 
the  same  as  in  1878. 
[  To  be  continued.] 
PROGRESS  IN  PHARMACY. 
A  QUARTERLY  REVIEW  OF  SOME  OF  THE  MORE  INTERESTING  LITERATURE 
RELATING  TO  PHARMACY. 
BY  M.  I.  WlI/BKRT, 
Apothecary  at  the  German  Hospital,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
The  earthquake  and  the  succeeding  conflagration  that  virtually 
destroyed  the  city  of  San  Francisco  on  April  18,  1906,  has  been  for 
weeks  the  one  topic  that  is  foremost  in  the  minds  of  men  in  all  parts 
of  the  civilized  world. 
Among  the  numerous  thousands  of  the  citizens  of  San  Francisco 
who  have  been  rendered  homeless  and  practically  penniless,  there 
are  no  less  than  200  pharmacists  and  upwards  of  800  physicians. 
While  liberal  donations  from  all  sections  of  the  United  States 
have  provided  for  the  immediate  needs  of  the  homeless,  so  far  as 
food  and  temporary  shelter  are  concerned,  many,  if  not  all,  of  the 
pharmacists  and  physicians  will  be  practically  compelled  to  begin 
