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Editorial. 
(  Am.  Joue.  PhAlRM 
t    June  1, 1871. 
The  high  salaries  form  another  objectionable  feature  of  this  law.  While  it 
will  not  be  contended  that,  after  the  licensing  of  the  pharmacists  at  present 
engaged  in  New  York  city  has  been  accomplished,  there  will  be  the  shadow  of  a 
necessity  of  the  board  to  be  in  session  daily  during  the  usual  office  hours,  it 
follows  that  subsequently,  the  licensing  of  every  so-called  drug  clerk  for  New 
York  city  will  cost  her  a  round  sum  of  $150,  if  the  applications  amount  to 
one  hundred  annually.  Five  salaried  officers,  at  $2500  each,  cost  annually 
$12,500;  add  thereto,  for  rent  for  office,  cost  of  furniture,  stationery,  and  other 
expenses,  $2500  per  annum,  and  the  sum  of  $15,000  will  be  reached,  for  which 
New  York  will  have  done  nothing,  except  supplying  fine  positions  to  five  men, 
and  this  circumstance  alone  will  cause  these  offices  to  be  eagerly  sought  for.  If 
the  city  would  expend  one  third  of  that  sum  annually  to  the  New  York  College 
of  Pharmacy,  the  money  would  go  far  towards  increasing  the  facilities  for 
pharmaceutical  education,  and  the  examination  and  licensing  of  applicants,  if 
entrusted  to  the  College,  in  lieu  ol  such  a  grant,  would  be  performed  better 
and  more  satisfactorily. 
The  law,  in  our  opinion,  has  no  redeeming  feature  whatever,  aside  even  from 
its  ignoring  the  existence  of  pharmaceutical  educational  institutions  in  this  and 
other  countries  ;  and  we  fear  that  the  public  will  find  it  no  greater  security 
against  the  murderous  drug  clerks,  while  it  certainly  has  the  advantage  of 
increasing  the  taxation  for  the  benevolent  purpose  of  creating  some  fat  offices. 
Cabinet  Specimens. — Attention  is  called  to  the  following  notice  of  the  Cu- 
rator of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  In  various  parts  of  the  coun- 
try, certain  indigenous  drugs  are  employed,  either  by  physicians  in  domestic 
practice,  which  are  never  or  very  rarely  met  with  in  commerce,  or  usually  ap- 
pear in  commerce  in  a  ground  condition.  Some  commercial  indigenous  drugs, 
as,  for  instance,  cypripedium,  are  evidently  obtained  from  at  least  two  different 
species  of  plants.  We  mention  these  instances  to  show  that  it  is  in  the  power 
of  most  of  the  numerous  friends  and  graduates  of  the  College  to  contribute 
their  mite  towards  the  completion  of  the  College  cabinet: 
The  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  having  (since  the  removal  to  the  new 
building)  enlarged  facilities  for  the  exhibition  of  chemical  and  pharmaceutical 
specimens  and  products,  solicit  donations  to  the  Cabinet.  It  is  believed  that 
many  rare  specimens,  now  in  the  possession  of  single  individuals,  thus  having 
but  a  limited  sphere  of  usefulness,  mi:>ht  be  profitably  placed  in  the  College, 
and  be  the  means  of  gratifying  and  instructing  many.  Contributions  may  be 
forwarded  to  the  College,  145  N.  10th  street,  care  of 
Joseph  P.  Remington,  Curator. 
Apothecaries  are  Liquor  Dealers. — According  to  a  decision  recently  ren- 
dered by  General  A.  Pleasonton,  the  Internal  Revenue  Commissioner,  the  Act 
of  Congress  of  July  14th,  1870,  has  also  abolished  the  exemption  heretofore 
provided  for  apothecaries,  by  the  Act  of  July  13th,  1866,  which  exemption  has 
not  been  affected  by  the  various  amendatory  laws  passed  afterwards.  Section 
79,  §  33,  was  as  follows  : 
"  Apothecaries  shall  pay  ten  dollars  *  *  *  *  Nor  shall  apothecaries,  who 
have  paid  the  special  tax,  be  required  to  pay  the  tax  as  retail  dealers  in  liquors 
in  consequence  of  selling  alcohol  or  of  selling  of,  or  of  dispensing  upon  physi- 
