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Editorial. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
t    Aug.  1, 1871. 
the  old  university  building,  and  now  has  a  lecture  room  for  seating  40  students 
and  containing  the  cabinets  in  11  glass  cases  ;  also  a  laboratory  for  the  heavier 
operations,  with  furnace,  drying  closet,  sandbaths,  waterbaths,  two  stills,  &c.; 
and  a  laboratory  with  36  tables  for  qualitative  analysis,  six  tables  for  volume- 
tric examinations,  a  closet  for  operations  with  sulphuretted  hydrogen,  two 
waterbaths  and  a  drying  closet.  Adjoining  the  laboratory  is  the  balance  room^ 
the  chemical  cabinet,  and  the  laboratory  of  the  pharmaceutical  director  and 
assistant,  with  three  additional  tables  for  scientific  investigations. 
The  Next  Meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  at  St. 
Louis. — From  the  information  thus  far  received,  the  probabilities  are  that  this 
meeting  will  be  very  largely  attended  from  all  parts  of  the  country  ;  the  col- 
leges and  societies  of  the  Eastern  States  expect  to  send  full  delegations,  and 
many  other  members  have  arranged  to  be  present. 
The  Permanent  Secretary  has  issued  his  circular,  and  negotiations  are  in 
progress  to  secure  for  the  members  and  their  families,  as  well  as  for  the  dele- 
gates and  applicants  for  membership,  a  considerable  reduction  of  fare  by  one 
and  probably  two  railroads.  Applications  to  share  in  the  benefit  of  this  reduc- 
tion should  be  made  at  once. 
The  headquarters  of  the  Association  during  the  meeting  will  be  at  the  South- 
ern Hotel,  St.  Louis,  where  ample  accommodations  and  a  suitable  reduction 
from  the  usual  charges  have  been  provided. 
The  Condition  of  Pharmacy  in  Foreign  Countries,  and  especially  their 
legal  regulations  relating  to  the  practice  of  our  art,  are  of  particular  interest 
at  a  time  when  the  agitation  in  this  country  for  suitable  restrictions  has  assumed 
so  large  dimensions.  A  few  years  ago  there  were  no  laws  of  the  kind  enforced 
in  the  United  States,  although  somewhat  vague  provisions  looking  toward  the 
competency  of  the  apothecary  had  been  placed  on  the  statute  books  of  three 
States.  Now  we  have  laws  in  three  or  four  States,  which  are  being  enforced? 
and  the  same  subject  has  been  before  the  Legislatures  of  seven  or  eight  other 
States,  and  is  being  agitated  by  several  local  pharmaceutical  societies. 
In  continental  Europe  a  certain  control  has  been  exercised  by  the  govern- 
ments over  the  apothecaries  and  their  establishments,  until  in  most  of  the 
European  States  the  machineries  for  this  control  have  gradually  become  fixed 
institutions.  Nowhere,  perhaps,  is  this  control  more  thorough  and  searching 
than  in  Germany,  where  it  has  thus  far  remained  unaffected  by  the  perfect 
freedom  existing  for  all  trades,  although  voices  have  been  raised  for  a  similar 
liberty  to  pharmacy,  and  against  the  legal  limitation  of  officines. 
To  present  our  readers  with  a  complete  and  true  picture  of  the  pharmaceu- 
tical affairs  as  they  have  been  gradually  developed  in  Germany,  we  lay  before 
them  the  lucid  essay  of  Dr.  Fred.  Hoffmann,  which  will  doubtless  invite  compa- 
rison with  the  condition  of  pharmacy  in  our  country,  and  which  we  hope  will 
