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EDITORIAL. 
a  vote  of  thanks  to  the  dean  and  faculty  of  the  Lousiville  Medical  College 
for  their  courtsy  in  proffering  the  use  of  their  lecture  hall.  After  which 
a  motion  to  adjourn  until  the  next  general  meeting  was  adopted. 
"  '  Fred.  C.  IVIiller,  Recording  Secretary.' 
"The  board  of  trustees  have  called  a  meeting  for  next  Tuesday,  -Aug. 
23d,  at  3  o'clock  P.  M.    The  time  for  the  pharmaceutic  meetings  will  be 
announced  at  an  early  date. 
University  of  G(ettingen. — The  chair  of  chemistry  at  this  institution, 
vacated  by  the  transfer  of  Prof.  Fittig  to  the  University  of  Tubingen,  has 
.been  filled  by  Dr.  Hans  Hiibner  as  extraordinary  professor  in  the  philo- 
sophical faculty. 
University  of  Pennsylvania. — In  justice  to  the  fair  fame  and  the  well 
merited  renown  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  the  oldest  institution 
of  the  kind  in  this  country,  our  European  exchanges  are  requested  to 
contradict  the  report  that  the  medical  faculty  thereof  are  granting  diplo- 
mas to  any  one  on  the  payment  of  forty  to  fifty  dollars.  This  assertion 
of  a  N.  Y.  Journal  some  months  ago,  was  at  once  corrected  in  the  United 
States;  but  Prof.  Maisch  informs  us  it  found  its  way  into  the  usually 
well  informed  Pharm.  Zeitnng  of  Bunzlau,  and  on  its  authority  is  going 
the  round  through  the  scientific  journals  of  Europe.  The  above  charges 
refer  to  another  institution,  bearing  a  similar  name,  and  also  located  in 
Philadelphia,  but  without  standing  in  the  medical  profession  ;  while  the 
medical  faculty  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  are  honestly  endeavor- 
ing to  sustain  the  reputation  which  has  been  established  by  the  earnest  and 
conscientious  labors  of  some  of  the  most  celebrated  physicians  of  America 
during  a  period  ©f  one  hundred  years. 
The  Royal  Rhenish-westpfialian  Polytechnic  School  at  Aix-la- 
Chapelle. — The  Prussian  government,  in  carrying  out  its  intentions  of 
increasing  the  means  of  scientific  and  artistic  education,  intends  opening, 
on  the  10th  of  October  at  Aix-la-Chapelle,  an  extensive  polytechnic  high 
school  of  the  same  kind  as  those  at  Hanover  and  Berlin,  and  a  combina- 
tion of  the  aims  and  scope  of  ^the  "  Ecole  Polytechnique,"  "  Ecole  des 
Mines"  and  the  "  Ecole  Central  des  Arts  et  Manufactures"  at  Paris.  The 
Chemical  News,  in  speaking  of  this  Institution,  says  :  "  The  main  subjects 
of  ordinary  instruction  are  fifty-eight  in  number,  and  besides  these  thirteen 
extraordinary  subjects  wiU'be  given;  in  fact,  as  might  be  expected  from 
the  Prussian  government,  the  establishment  is  in  every  respect  complete. 
The  building  is  an  imposing  and  beautiful  one,  of  large  dimensions,  fitted 
up  with  all  the  requisites  for  this  purpose.  It  has  been  erected  in  a  city, 
the  best  which  could  be  selected  in  Rhenish  Prussia,  since  it  is  readily 
accessible,  its  situation  healthy,  and  what  is  of  more  importance  it  is 
eminently  the  centre  of  a  large  manufacturing,  mining,  and  technically 
highly  developed  district,  and  at  an  easy  distance  as  well  from  the  Rhine 
as  from  Belgium  and  France.    The  fees  are  exceedingly  moderate,  and 
