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EDITORIAL. 
€Mtorial  department. 
The  New  Professorships  in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. — With 
the  month  of  April  this  new  School  of  Science  will  commence  its  work. 
Of  the  sciences  to  be  taught,  those  of  Botany,  Mineralogy,  and  Zoology  in- 
terest the  Pharmaceutical  student.  The  Botanical  course,  by  Prof,  R.  C. 
Wood,  is  particularly  worthy  of  the  attention  of  apothecaries  and  students 
of  Pharmacy,  and  we  are  informed  that,  with  the  view  of  encouraging  the 
attendance  of  apothecaries,  students  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy are  admitted  without  charge  for  matriculation,  and  at  the  reduced 
price  of  $7.50  per  ticket.  The  botanical  lectures  are  between  4  and  5 
o'clock,  P*  M.,  and  we  earnestly  invite  attention  to  them. 
Alumni  Association  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. — 
"  Dear  Sir :  You  are  respectfully  invited  to  attend  the  Annual  Meeting 
of  the  Association  ;  the  preliminary  session  to  be  held  on  Friday  after- 
noon, March  16th,  1866,  at  3|  o'clock,  and  the  general  session  on  Satur- 
day afternoon,  March  17th,  at  the  same  hour,  in  the  Hall  of  the  College. 
If  unable  to  attend,  any  communication  you  may  have  to  present  should 
be  addressed  to  the  undersigned. 
"Yery  respectfully, 
¥m.  C.  Bakes,  800  Arch  St.,  Philada." 
We  are  reminded  by  this  notice  of  the  great  object  kept  in  view  by  the 
Alumni  Association,  viz.,  the  creation  of  a  fund  to  sustain  a  practical 
school  of  chemistry  and  pharmacy,  under  the  auspices  of  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy  ;  and  the  question  has  repeatedly  forced  itself  on  our 
attention, — "In  what  way  can  the  intentions  of  the  donors  be  most  effect- 
ively carried  out  with  the  means  to  be  provided,  so  as  to  prove  most  useful  to 
the  students  who  may  attend  it,  and  most  creditable  to  the  College  whose 
reputation  it  will  involve  V  We  have  asked  this  question  of  some 
of  the  gentlemen  most  prominently  engaged  in  the  movement,  but  have  found 
that  their  attention  seemed  directed  primarily  to  the  creation  of  the  fund, 
believing  that  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  College  will  be  able  to  shape 
and  create  the  schools  when  the  proper  time  arrives.  With  due  deference 
to  those  holding  this  opinion,  we  believe  it  to  be  but  just  to  those  who  are 
asked  to  contribute  to  the  fund,  to  present  a  well  digested  scheme  or  pro- 
gramme of  the  Constitution  of  the  school  proposed  to  be  founded,  including 
even  some  of  the  details  of  the  cost  of  material  and  apparatus  required  to 
.start  it  for  a  limited  number  of  students,  the  time  that  would  be  devoted 
