EDITORIAL.  477 
Cuba  are  advancing  their  art  and  opening  schools  for  the  culture  of  the 
sciences  it  involves.  On  another  occasion  we  have  referred  to  the  "Revista 
Farmaceutica"  as  a  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  published  in  Beunos  Ayres,  in 
the  Spanish  language,  and  printed  some  extracts  from  it.  In  the  present 
number  (page  412),  is  a  short  review  of  a  work  on  Pharmacy  by  Charles 
Murray,  Professor  of  Pharmacy  at  Buenos  Ayres  and  Honorary  Member 
of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  which  does  great  credit  to  the 
author,  and  is  remarkable  as  the  first  book  on  our  science  which  has  been 
published  in  that  region  of  the  globe. 
We  have  recently  received  from  Mr.  Figueroa,  of  Cartagena,  Cuba,  a 
package  of  numbers  of  a  pharmaceutical  Journal  published  in  Havana, 
Cuba,  and  now  in  its  fourth  year,  called  "La  Emulacion,"  devoted  to 
Pharmacy  and  the  applied  sciences,  published  under  the  direction  of  Drs. 
Joaquin  F.  de  Aenlle  and  Fernando  Valdes  y  Aguerre. 
The  first  number  contains,  1st,  a  criticism  on  the  regulation  of  the  gov- 
ernment appointing  drug  inspectors. 
.  2d.  An  extract  from  a  pamphlet  by  Prof.  Casana,  of  Barcelona,  on  re- 
forms in  the  mode  of  teaching  Pharmacy. 
3d.  Regulations  of  the  University  of  Havana  in  regard  to  its  faculty  of 
Pharmacy,  Cabinets,  Laboratory,  and  Botanical  Garden. 
4th.  Instructions  to  the  sub-commissioners  of  Pharmacy,  prepared  by 
the  Royal  Academy  of  the  Medical  Sciences,  and  offered  to  the  civil  author- 
ities for  their  approval  and  enforcement.  These  instructions  are  designed 
to  bring  all  the  dealers  in  medicines  under  official  scrutiny,  prepared  with 
a  view  to  correcting  abuses  and  establishing  a  system  of  governmental 
inspection  over  all  the  pharmaceutists  in  the  Island. 
The  February  number  contains  an  article  on  the  requirements  and  quali- 
fications of  Drug  Inspectors,  and  another  on  unqualified  practitioners  of 
Pharmacy,  including  some  letters  from  students  of  the  University,  com- 
plaining that  whilst  they  are  required  to  pass  four  years  in  study  at  great 
expense,  ignorant  persons  are  engaged  in  the  practice  under  false  colors. 
In  this  number  there  is  a  short  account  of  the  conferring  the  degree  of 
Doctor  in  Pharmacy  on  Don  Justo  Rafael  Figueroa,  who  was  complimented 
for  his  proficiency,  and  his  preceptor  took  occasion  to  remark  that  he  had 
graduated  in  Philadelphia.  Advantage  was  taken  of  the  occasion  to  re- 
mark that  many  of  the  titles  proceeding  from  the  United  States  could 
not  and  should  not  be  accepted  by  their  University  ;  some  on  account  of 
bad  organization  of  the  Schools  which  bestow  them,  and  others  because 
diplomas  are  granted  without  having  undergone  any  studies ;  yet  it  was 
admitted  that  Colleges  did  exist,  equipped  in  accordance  with  modern  im- 
provements in  teaching,  which  compare  favorably  withEuropean  institu- 
tions. 
The  March  number  contains  directions  for  detecting  the  poisonous  alka- 
loids, and  an  account  of  poisoning^  by  the  external  use  of  nitrate  of 
mercury. 
