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And  in  the  laboratories  of  the  College  many  workers  have 
solved  many  problems  that  have  found  important  industrial  applica- 
tions, while  from  the  faculty  and  alumni  have  come  original  papers 
of  great  practical  value  to  medical  and  pharmaceutical  science. 
In  this  work  the  library  of  the  College  with  its  20,000  volumes 
constituting  the  largest  and  most  valuable  pharmaceutical  library  in 
the  United  States,  has  been  found  to  be  of  incalculable  service ;  and 
next  in  importance  has  been  its  museum  and  herbarium  with  its  many 
thousands  of  medicinal  plants,  its  rare  and  typical  exhibits  of  crude 
drugs,  its  raw  materials,  and  its  manufactured  drugs  from  ail  parts 
of  the  world. 
In  the  literature  of  pharmacy  and  allied  science,  the  College  has 
always  been  most  actively  represented,  its  faculty  having  issued 
nearly  200  volumes.  Thus,  the  U.  S.  Dispensatory  was  founded  in 
1833  by  George  B.  Wood  and  Franklin  Bache,  both  of  the  faculty; 
John  M.  Maisch  (with  Alfred  Stille,  M.  D.)  founded  the  National 
Standard  Dispensatory  in  1879;  Robert  Bridges  was  the  American 
editor  of  Fownes'  Chemistry  (1845-78),  and  of  Graham's  Elements 
of  Chemistry  (1852)  ;  William  Procter,  Jr.,  was  the  American  editor 
of  Mohr  and  Redwood's  Pharmacy  (1849)  ;  Edward  Parrish  wrote 
his  first  Pharmacy  in  1855 ;  Joseph  P.  Remington's  textbook  on 
Pharmacy  has  been  the  standard  textbook  on  pharmacy  since  1885, 
in  this  country  and  many  foreign  lands  ;  John  M.  Maisch  published  in 
1881  the  first  textbook  on  Materia  Medica  in  this  country;  Henry 
Kraemer  wrote  his  first  Applied  and  Economic  Botany  and  Phar- 
macognosy while  at  the  College  (1897-1917)  ;  Henry  Trimble  pub- 
lished his  Tannins;  Frank  X.  Moerk  issued  his  Qualitative  Chemical 
Analysis;  Samuel  P.  Sadtler  (with  Virgil  Coblentz)  published  his 
Pharmaceutical  and  Medical  Chemistry,  and  his  own  Industrial 
Chemistry;  Heber  W.  Youngken  issued  his  Pharmaceutical  Botany 
and  Pharmacognosy ;  John  A.  Roddy  issued  his  Medical  Bacteriology, 
and  Paul  S.  Pittenger  published  his  Biochemic  Drug  Assay  Methods; 
and  with  these  should  be  included  Julius  W.  Sturmer's  admirable 
Pharmaceutical  Latin  and  Pharmaceutical  Arithmetic,  as  he  has  been 
affiliated  with  the  College  since  the  Chi-merger  of  19 16.  And  there 
were  many  formularies  and  other  textbooks  published  that  are  not 
now  in  general  use. 
Prior  to  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeial  Convention  of  1850,  pharma- 
cists had  no  active  part  in  the  revision  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia, 
