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the  same,  viz. :  The  lowering  of  prices  for  Cinchona  Bark,  brought  about  by 
the  large  supplies  from  East  India  and  Java. 
The  duty  of  20  per  cent,  imposed  on  foreign  Quinine  by  the  tariff  of  the 
United  States  previous  to  July,  1879,  certainly  was  not  the  cause  of  the  high 
price  which  existed  in  Europe,  and  the  removal  of  the  duty  did  not  reduce 
the  price  there.  In  Italy  the  duty  on  all  Salts  of  Cinchona  Bark  is  five  francs 
per  kilo,  and  the  government  pays  the  Italian  manufacturer  three  and  one- 
half  francs  per  kilo  on  all  exported. 
The  report  was  accompanied  by  a  table  giving  the  highest  and  lowest 
prices  of  American  Quinine  during  each  year  from  1823  to  May,  1888.  This 
table  agrees  with  the  one  furnished  by  Samuel  F.  Troth,  for  the  years  1823- 
1853,  and  published  in  this  journal  1879  page  156.  To  complete  the  record 
we  give  here  the  prices  of  American  Quinine,  from  1854  to  May  18, 1888. 
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$2  50 
$2  50 
1866 
$2  60 
$2  25 
1878 
S3  60 
$3  40 
1855 
3  00 
2  60 
1867 
2  20 
1  95 
1879 
3  60 
2  60 
1856 
2  60 
2  40 
1868 
2  35 
1  90 
1880 
3  25 
2  25 
1857 
2  00 
1  40 
1869 
2  30 
2  00 
1881 
3  25 
1  90 
1858 
1  40 
1  25 
1870 
2  30 
2  10 
1882 
2  50 
1  80 
1859 
1  50 
1  25 
1871 
2  45 
2  20 
1883 
1  80 
1  60 
1860 
1  80 
1  20 
1872 
2  45 
2  40 
1884 
1  80 
90 
1861 
2  10 
1  80 
1873 
2  55 
2  45 
1885 
1  05 
75 
1862 
2  90 
2  25 
1874 
2  50 
2  20 
1886 
80 
65 
1863 
3  25 
2  70 
1875 
2  30 
2  15 
1887 
70 
46 
1864 
3  75 
2  60 
1876 
2  70 
2  20 
1888 
56 
50 
1865 
3  40 
2  20 
1877 
4  50 
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EEYIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Twenty-fourth  Annual  Report  of  the  Alumni  Association,  with  the  exercises  of 
the  Sixtv-seventh  Commencement  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy for  the  year  1887-88.    8  vo.,  pp.  256. 
This  report,  which  may  be  obtained  from  the  Secretary  of  the  Association, 
Wm.  E.  Krewson,  Ph.  G.,  gives  the  minutes  of  the  annual  meeting,  of  the 
sessions  of  the  Executive  Board,  of  the  social  meetings  held  during  the 
year,  etc.  The  adddresses  delivered  at  these  meetings,  and  of  which  the 
titles  were  given  on  page  219  of  our  April  number,  are  printed  in  full,  to- 
gether with  some  of  the  discussions  had,  and  make  the  volume  of  per- 
manent value  also  to  others  than  the  Alumni  of  the  college.  Necessarily, 
much  of  its  contents  are  of  particular  interest  to  former  students,  and 
especially  to  the  members  of  the  last  class. 
The  organization  of  the  Association  was  effected  July  15,  1864,  the 
twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  which  date  will  probably  be  celebrated  in  some 
appropriate  manner.  It  may  have  been  this  coming  event  which  has 
suggested  to  some  of  the  Alumni  the  inauguration  of  a  movement  for  the 
