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weeks  in  a  school  or  college  of  pharmacy  recognized  by  the  Board ; 
and  that  after  July  I,  1 907,  they  must  present  evidence  of  having 
completed  a  full  college  course. 
Apprentices  who  were  registered  with  the  Board  before  July  I, 
1905,  are  exempt  from  these  regulations. 
The  Hanbury  Medal,  for  original  research  in  the  natural  history 
and  chemistry  of  drugs,  was  this  year  awarded  to  Professor  Ernst 
Albert  Schmidt,  the  director  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Institute  of  the 
University  of  Marburg,  a  position  he  has  filled  for  upwards  of 
thirty-one  years.    {Phar.  Jour.,  1905,  page  863.) 
Professor  Schmidt  is  an  honorary  member  of  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy,  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain,  and  of  a  number  of 
other  pharmaceutical  and  scientific  societies.  He  was  awarded  the 
Fliickiger  medal  in  1902,  and  is  generally  well  known  for  his  con- 
tributions on  the  chemistry  of  the  alkaloids. 
Acetyl- Salicylic  Acid. — The  British  patent  for  this  substance  was 
recently  declared  invalid  by  Mr.  Justice  Joyce,  who,  in  handing  down 
his  decision,  asserted  that  the  specification  for  the  patent  was  mis- 
conceived and  therefore  misleading.  [Phar.  Jour.,  July  15,  1 905, 
page  76.) 
Another  interesting  decision,  relating  to  this  same  chemical,  was 
recently  reported  from  Hamburg,  Germany.  Messrs.  C.  F.  Asche 
&  Co.  were  marketing  "  Acetylo.salicylic  acid,  a  substitute  for 
aspirin,"  and  were  proceeded  against  by  representatives  of  the 
Farbwerke  A-G  vormals  Friedrich  Bayer  &  Co.,  in  Elberfeld,  for 
interfering  with  their  rights  in  the  trade-marked  name  and  attempt- 
ing to  mislead  the  public.  In  view  of  the  fact  that  the  preparation 
under  consideration  was  distinctly  labelled  as  not  being  aspirin  and 
was  offered  in  vials  quite  distinct  from  those  used  for  the  latter,  the 
court  ruled  that  no  fraud  was  intended  and  dismissed  the  case. 
{Phar.  Zeitg.,  1905,  page  618.) 
The  Cultivation  of  Medicinal  Plants. — E.  M.  Holmes,  F.L.S.,  has 
contributed  an  interesting  series  of  articles  to  the  Pharmaceutical 
Journal  in  which  he  describes  the  habits  and  the  soil  best  suited  to 
the  growing  of  various  medicinal  plants. 
In  England  medicinal  plants  are  grown  quite  extensively,  and,  in 
some  sections  at  least,  on  a  very  large  scale.  The  prospects  for  this 
year's  crops  {Phar.  Jour.,  July  29,  1905,  page  112)  are  unusually 
