AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
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foreign  Societies  and  Journals,  heretofore  executed  by  the  Cor- 
responding Secretary,  has  been  done  by  the  Permanent  Secre- 
tary, as  directed  last  year ;  that  the  letter  from  St.  Petersburg 
received  last  year  was  duly  responded  to  ;  that  a  letter  had  been 
received  from  the  General  Austrian  Apothecaries'  Association 
at  Vienna,  which  he  had  provisionally  replied  to,  referring  it  to 
the  Association  for  final  disposition,  and  is  as  follows : 
To  P.  W.  Bedford,  Esq.,  Secretary  to  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  New  York  ; 
Yienna,  30th  Dec,  1865. 
Sir, — I  avail  myself  of  the  opportunity  to  apply  to  your  honorable  So- 
ciety, in  the  name  of  the  General  Association  of  Austrian  Apothecaries, 
for  an  affair  I  shall  briefly  expose  in  this  letter.  We  understand  that  the 
tropical  fruits  are  exposed  for  sale  in  their  own  markets  in  New  York. 
Considering  the  acquisition  of  tropical  productions  in  their  natural  con- 
dition an  enrichment  of  our  pharmacological  collection  no  less  desirable 
than  scientifically  important,  we  should  feel  much  indebted  to  you  for 
prevailing  on  your  Honorable  Society  to  send  to  us  tropical  fruits  in  the 
state  they  are  sold  in  the  market.  As  for  the  mode  of  putting  them  up, 
we  begyou  to  send  the  oily  ones  in  cylindrical  glasses  with  glass  stoppers, 
filled  with  alcohol  of  98°,  in  the  ratio  of  one  part  to  three  of  water  ;  the 
fat  ones  in  salt  water.  At  the  same  time  you  will  be  so  kind  as  to  make 
us  acquainted  with  the  expenses  incurred,  that  we  may  be  able  to  reim- 
burse them. 
Entering  into  a  closer  scientific  relation  with  your  Honorable  Society 
is  one  of  the  most  lively  wishes  of  our  Association.  "We  make  free,  there- 
fore, with  calling  your  attention  to  our  Journal  "  Zeitschrift  des  Allge- 
meinen  Oesterreichischen  Apothekervereins,"  published  at  Yienna 
twice  a  month,  for  an  exchange  of  articles,  as  well  as  our  pharmaceutical 
collection,  pretty  rich  at  present,  and  increasing  daily  by  our  efforts  and 
sacrifices  for  an  exchange  of  samples. 
In  the  hope  of  seeing  form  a  scientific  intercourse  with  our  brethren  in 
profession  beyond  the  sea,  and  with  the  assurance  of  true  esteem,  I  sign, 
Fr.  Beckert, 
Director  of  the  Society. 
The  Secretary's  report  then  refers  to  the  Colleges  of  Pharma- 
cy, of  which  he  gives  notices  of  those  in  Boston,  New  York,  Phil- 
adelphia, Baltimore,  St.  Louis,  Cincinnati  and  Chicago. 
Prof.  Parrish  took  occasion  of  the  comments  of  the  report  on 
local  colleges  to  argue  the  good  results  which  would  flow  from  the 
more  general  establishment  of  local  associations.  Every  consid- 
erable town  and  city  in  the  country  should  have  a  college  of  Phar- 
