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is  abundantly  supplied  with  light,  it  has  sufficient  height  and  its  interior  decorations 
are  very  handsome  and  attractive. 
The  local  committee  had  prepared  an  admirable  catalogue  of  exhibitors  and  of 
goods  exhibited,  accompanied  by  a  diagrammatic  plan  of  the  iiall,  with  references 
showing  clearly  the  space  assigned  to  each  party.  This  publication  proved  to  be 
extremely  useful  alike  to  the  visiting  members,  to  the  reporters  of  the  daily  press, 
and,  above  all,  to  the  committee  appointed  to  report  on  the  exhibition.  The  latter 
gentlemen  are  particularly  deserving  of  this  aid,  as,  on  account  of  the  profusion  of 
objects  displayed  and  the  great  number  of  exhibitors,  their  own  task  will  prove  to  be 
no  sinecure. 
Where  everything  was  so  near  perfection,  It  may  seem  almost  Invidious  to  criticize 
at  all.  Still  we  cannot  forbear  to  draw  attention  to  the  fact,  that  imported 
patent  medicines  are  no  more  orthodox  than  our  domestic  nostrums,  and 
that  they  are,  in  fact,  excluded  from  the  exhibitions  by  special  resolution  passed  at 
the  preceding  meeting.  Most  probably  the  few  which  we  noticed  had  escaped  the 
vigilance  of  the  committee,  and  possibly  the  exhibitor  was  unaware  of  the  position  of 
the  Association  toward  these  preparations. 
The  official  catalogue  makes  a  practical  and  convenient  division  of  the  goods  ex- 
hibited Into  the  following  six  classes  : 
I.  Drugs.  2.  Pharmaceutical  Preparations.  3.  Chemicals.  4.  Perfumery  and 
Druggists'  Sundries.  5.  Apparatus  and  Shop  Furniture.  6.  Scientific  Collections- 
Wines  and  liquors  were  very  properly  entirely  excluded  from  exhibition,  though  by 
special  permission,  a  few  samples  of  alcohol,  distilled  by  C.  H.  Graves  &  Sons,  of 
Boston,  were  admitted. 
The  catalogue  before  us  enumerates  114  exhibitors  in  the  various  classes  named 
above.  The  majority  of  these  have  repeatedly  shown  their  wares  on  previous 
occasions,  and  have  thus  become  more  or  less  familiar  to  the  readers  of  the  Journal. 
We  will,  therefore,  attempt  merely  to  mention  a  very  few  of  those  displays  which 
impressed  us  as  being  novel  or  otherwise  specially  worthy  of  notice. 
On  entering  the  hall  the  attention  of  the  observer  was  first  attracted  to  a  handsome 
perfume  fountain,  furnished  by  Joseph  Burnett,  which  occupied  a  central  and  prom- 
inent position.  It  was  richly  decorated  with  ornamental  foliage  and  fragrant 
flowers,  which  were  daily  replenished,  and  therefore  always  presented  a  fresh  and 
beautiful  appearance.-  Mr.  Burnett  also  exhibited  a  rare  specimen  of  a  living  vanilla 
plant  and  three  oil  paintings  depicting  the  vanilla  In  various  stages  of  its  growth  in 
its  native  forests.  Through  the  courtesy  of  the  same  gentleman  we  were  shown  a 
sample  of  coniferin  or  artificial  vanillin,  which  is  now  manufactured  in  Germany 
from  the  sap  of  pine-trees.  We  failed,  however,  in  recognizing  its  Identity  In  per- 
fume or  fragrance  with  that  of  the  true  Mexican  vanilla,  as  It  seemed  to  be  more 
nearly  related  to  the  Bourbon  variety,  which  is  used  much  more  extensively  in  Eu^ 
rope  than  with  us. 
Carter,  Harris  &  Hawley,  Cheney,  Myrick,  Hobbs  &  Co.,  Cutler  Bros.  &  Co., 
and  Weeks  &  Potter,  all  of  Boston,  made  a  very  creditable  and  extensive  exhibition 
of  drugs  In  original  packages,  many  of  which  are  rarely  seen  by  pharmacists. 
Kurlbaum  &  Co.,  of  Philadelphia,  displayed  beautiful  discs  of  camphor,  refined  by 
themselves.  Lazell,  Marsh  &  Gardiner,  Lehn  &  Fink,  McKesson  &  Robblns  and 
W.  H.  Schieffelin  &  Co.,  all  of  New  York,  exhibited  extensive  collections  of 
