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EDITORIAL. 
Trustees. 
Dr.  Robert  Bridges,  H.  N.  Rittenhouse, 
T.  S.  Wiegand,  F.  C.  Hill, 
S.  N.  James,  S.  S.  Bunting, 
D.  S.  Jones,  J.  C.  Savery. 
Committee  on  Sinking  Fund. 
Samuel  F.  Troth,  Ambrose  Smith, 
Edward  Parrish. 
Publication  Committee. 
Charles  Ellis,  Dr.  R.  Bridges, 
Wm.  Procter,  Jr.,  Edw.  Parrish, 
A.  B.  Taylor. 
Delegates  to  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
Edward  Parrish,  Dr.  W.  H.  Pile, 
Ambrose  Smith,  Charles  Bullock, 
S.  S.  Garriguea. 
(SMtodal  department. 
To  our  Readers. — We  perhaps  owe  an  apology  for  occupying  so  much 
space  in  this  number  with  what  some  may  deem  an  unprofitable  lecture. 
Why  it  appears,  is  explained  at  the  first  page.  We  trust  that  the  rich- 
ness of  much  of  the  original  matter  that  follows  it  will  make  up  the  defi- 
ciency to  such  as  may  view  it  askance.  The  papers  on  Colchicia,  Collodion, 
and  Hypophosphite  of  Lime  particularly  merit  attention  among  the  original 
articles,  and  the  valuable  communications  of  Prof.  Herapath,  in  reference 
to  the  alkaloids  of  Cinchona,  of  Mr.  Schacht  on  "Plasma,"  or  "  Glysamyl" 
as  it  called,  by  Mr.  0.  S.  Hubbell  of  this  city,  and  of  Dr.  Garrod  on  the 
decomposing  action  of  the  Alkalies  on  the  Narcotics,  deserve  a  careful 
perusal. 
Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy. — We  are  informed,  by  Prof.  Grahame, 
of  this  Institution,  that  Dr.  Frick,  their  Professor  of  Materia  Medica,  has 
been  elected  to  the  chair  of  Materia  Medica  in  the  University  of  Maryland, 
and  that  the  vacancy  thus  occasioned  in  the  faculty  has  been  filled  by  the 
election  of  Dr.  Donaldson,  of  Baltimore.  Dr.  Frick  won  golden  opinions 
among  those  who  listened  to  his  lectures  at  the  Maryland  College,  and  we 
doubt  not,  in  the  more  extended  sphere  of  action  to  which  he  has  been 
called,  that  he  will  become  eminent  as  a  teacher  of  the  interesting  branch 
that  he  as  made  a  speciality. 
San  Francisco  Pharmaceutical  Association. — We  learn,  through  the 
Pacific  Medical  Journal  for  March,  that  the  proposed  organization  of  Phar- 
