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the  other,  are  proverbial  faults  of  many  American  medical  and  perhaps  pharma- 
ceutical editors.  During  the  past  year  a  number  of  articles  properly  to  be 
accredited  to  this  Journal  have  been  going  the  founds  under  false  colors,  and 
translations  and  abridgements  for  which  we  have  paid,  are  taken  vpithout  ac- 
knowledgement. 
While  on  this  subject,  we  would  respectfully  suggest  to  editors  the  great  ad- 
vantage arising  from  giving  the  date,  or  number  and  volume  of  journals  from 
which  papers  of  any  consequence  are  extracted,  as  well  as  the  original  authori- 
ties, so  the  reader  can  consult  them,  if  for  any  reason  it  is  desirable. 
*   
A  General  Index  to  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy. — It  is  with 
pleasure  that  we  announce  that  arrangements  have  been  made  by  the  Publish- 
ing Committee,  with  a  gentleman  qualified  for  the  task,  to  make  a  general  Index 
to  the  entire  forty^wo  volumes  of  this  Journal.  Commenced  in  1829,  and  for  a 
long  period  the  only  journal  of  its  kind  in  the  country,  its  pages  embrace  a 
large  number  of  valuable  papers  and  a  great  variety  of  formulas,  to  which  ref- 
erence will  be  made  in  the  Index.  As  the  whole  will  make  a  volume  of  several 
hundred  pages,  involving  considerable  expense  in  its  publication,  this  will  have 
to'be  met  by  subscription.  Every  person  possessing  a  copy  of  the  Journal  needs 
such  an  index,  and  those  who  do  not  have  the  back  volumes,  by  possessing  the 
Index  can  at  once  learn  whether  the  work  contains  what  they  need  before 
seeking  its  pages  elsewhere.  The  price  of  the  Index  cannot  yet  be  determined, 
but  will  be  placed  as  low  as  its  cost  will  admit;  meanwhile  the  names  of  sub- 
scribers are  solicited  from  all  interested,  as  the  Committee  will  not  feel  jusiified 
in  going  to  press,  after  the  copy  is  ready,  until  a  sufficient  number  of  subscrib- 
ers is  obtained  to  justify  their  proceeding. 
The  Pharmacist. — We  learn  from  the  October  issue  of  The  Pharmacist 
(which  did  not  arrive  until  too  late  for  notice  in  our  November  number)  that  a 
serious  loss  has  been  sustained  by  the  destruction  by  fire  of  its  printer's  stock, 
which  occurred  on  the  4th  of  September.  This  misfortune  is  the  more  to  be 
regretted  as  it  occurred  just  as  that  enterprising  journal  was  getting  into  good 
working  order.  The  October  and  September  numbers  were  somewhat  delayed, 
but  Chicago  energy  will  doubtless  soon  restore  its  losses,  especially  if  delin- 
quent subscribers  will  remember  the  potency  of  money  as  a  restorative  in  such 
misfortunes. 
Female  '{Pharmaceutists  in  Holland. — According  to  the  editor  of  the 
Pharmaceuti^ci'e  Zeitung,  at  the  examination  for  pharmaceutical  assistants  re- 
cently held  in  Amsterdam,  nine  female  candidates  made  application,  five  of 
whom  had  been  educated  there  at  the  industrial  school.  The  Commission  of 
examination  was  fully  satisfied  of  their  capability.  The  Pharmaceutical 
WeeJdy  of  Holland  reiterates  the  views  expressed  on  a  former  occasion,  that 
these  gii-ls  (Meisjes)  are  not  adapted  for  city  pharmacies,  but  that  in  the 
country,  where  the  prescription  business  is  naturally  limited  to  certain  hours, 
and  where  they  could  find  time  for  improvement  in  domestic  duties,  they  might 
become  useful  and  valuable  assistants. 
