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iS5itonal  Department 
Professor  Bentley. — We  take  great  pleasure  in  contradictiDg  the  obituary 
notice  contained  upon  page  480  of  the  October  number  of  this  journal.  We 
were  agreeably  surprised,  on  receiving  the  London  "  Pharmaceutical  Journal'" 
for  October  7th,  which  contains  an  account  of  the  meeting  of  the  Pharmaceu- 
tical Society  held  October  4th,  at  which  Prof.  Bentley  made  a  report  on  the 
examinations  in  botany  and  materia  medica.  The  same  journal,  for  October 
28th,  states  that  the  error  probably  arose  in  the  announcement  of  the  death  of 
Mr.  R.  Bentley,  the  publisher.  We  hope  that  Professor  Bentley  may  be  spared 
yet  many  years,  and,  in  the  enjoyment  of  good  health,  may  live  to  see  pharmacy 
occupying  a  still  higher  position,  to  which  object  he  has  devoted  a  life  of  use. 
fulness. 
The  Michigan  University  School  of  Pharmacy. — In  reply  to  our  editorial 
remarks  on  pages  522  and  523  of  our  last  number,  we  have  received  from  Prof. 
A.  B.  Prescott  a  note,  from  which  we  extract  the  following:  "It  is  true  that 
the  non-requirement  of  apprenticeship  before  graduation  from  this  school  was 
the  only  ground  of  objection  against  its  admission  which  came  to  my  knowl- 
edge during  the  meeting  at  St.  Louis.  I  was  present  with  the  Committee,  to 
make  some  statements  which  they  desired,  though  not  present  during  the  delib- 
erations, and  I  asked  that  the  ground  of  objection  should  be  distinctly  stated 
by  the  Committee  and  by  the  Association."  We  believe  that  the  Association 
has  done  so;  and  the  admission  of  Prof.  Prescott,  in  the  first  sentence  quoted, 
defines  the  question  at  issue  at  the  last  meeting  in  St.  Louis.  Every  member 
present,  we  think,  has  voted  with  the  same  understanding,  so  that  we  see  no 
necessity  of  dwelling  farther  upon  this  subject. 
Preparation  of  Suppositories. — In  a  note  addressed  to  the  Editor,  Mr. 
Chas.  Shivers,  Jr.,  speaks  approvingly  of  the  manipulation  in  the  preparation 
of  suppositories,  as  described  by  Mr.  R.  F.  Fairthorne  on  page  488  of  our  last 
number,  which  is  also  followed  by  Mr.  Shivers.  The  latter  adds  a  suggestion, 
to  slightly  grease  the  moulds  with  olive  oil,  which  gives  the  suppositories  a 
spleadid  smooth  surface,  and  prevents  their  adhering  to  the  mould.  They 
readily  slip  out  on  tapping  the  moulds  on  the  counter. 
The  Greater  Includes  the  Less.  With  this  axiomatical  sentence  the 
**  Medical  and  Surgical  Reporter"  of  Oct.  2lst  closes  an  editorial  note  headed 
Apothecaries  and  Physicians.  It  appears  that  a  daily  paper  of  this  city  com- 
plained of  apothecaries  practising  as  physicians  without  having  been  educated 
as  such,  and  of  physicians  dealing  in  drugs  and  preparing  medicines  without 
having  attended  the  regular  course  of  instruction  in  a  school  of  pharmacy. 
The  "  M.  and  S.  Reporter"  argues  that  an  accomplished  physician  ought  to  be 
