EDITOKIAL. 
477 
the  appointed  teachers  are  men  of  experience  as  well  as  of  high  scientific 
standing."  These  schools  open  a  most  valuable  opportunity  for  earnest 
young  American  minds  who  are  able  to  qualify  themselves  as  missionary 
teachers  of  science  and  art  in  this  country  by  a  thorough  course  of  study 
abroad,  and  it  is  greatly  to  be  hoped  that  such  will  be  encouraged  to 
go  abroad  and  fit  themselves  to  serve  their  country  in  this  most  efficient 
and  praiseworthy  manner. 
A  Pharmaceutical  Institute  is  to  be  connected  with  the  University 
of  Marburg,  Germany;  the  plans  for  the  building  have  already  been 
approved. 
Co-operative  trading,  applied  to  Medicine  and  Pharmacy. — For 
sometime  past  a  system  of  joint  stock  trading  has  been  carried  on  in 
London,  with  a  view  to  the  supply  of  food,  clothing  and  other  necessaries 
of  life  to  the  classes  in  moderate  circumstances  who  contribute.  The 
bearing  of  this  system  on  regular  trading  has  been  discussed  in  several 
letters  and  articles  contained  in  the  Pharmaceutical  Journal  for  1869-70, 
and  althoyigh  the  question  has  arisen  as  to  whether  such  trading  pays  in 
the  long  run,  it  is  quite  certain  that  it  interferes  with  the  legitimate 
channels  of  trade.  The  editor  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Journal  calls  at- 
tention to  a  new  form  of  this  co-operation  called  the  Metropolitan 
Mutual  Medical  Aid  Society,"  designed  to  supply  medical  and  surgical 
aid,  and  medicines  to  the  subscribers.  The  society  is  only  intended  for 
persons  of  very  moderate  income,  and  does  not  include  attendance  in 
accouchments  or  incurable  cases. 
The  editor  remarks,  as  many  of  the  contributors  to  co-operative  stores 
are  medical  men,  they  cannot  complain  if  the  tables  are  reversed. 
Illustrations  of  the  Genus  Cinchona  by  Dr.  Mutis. — We  learn  from 
the  Pharm.  Journ.  of  Aug.  18,  that  the  drawings  executed  under  the 
direction  of  the  celebrated  Dr.  Mutis  at  the  end  of  the  eighteenth  century, 
and  which  were  discovered  by  Mr.  Clements  R.  Markham  in  an  outhouse 
in  the  botanical  garden  at  Madrid  with  some  of  the  MSS.  of  that 
writer,  are  about  to  be  republished. 
Betts'  Metallic  Capsules. — The  suits  in  Chancery  which  have  been 
pending  about  five  years,  commenced  by  a  Mr.  Betts,  agent  or  proprietor 
of  the  capsules  of  metal,  originating  in  a  French  patent  for  capping 
bottles,  have  recently  been  brought  to  a  termination  favorable  to  the 
defendants  (druggists  and  others)  before  Yice  Chancellor  James.  There 
were  twenty-five  separate  bills  against  retailers  of  capsuled  articles,  and 
Mr.  Betts  sought  injunctions,  damages  and  costs.  When  the  testimony 
was  given  in  it  appeared  that  the  suits  were  commenced  on  a  very  slim 
basis,  viz.,  a  single  capsuled  bottle  for  each,  which  Betts  stated  were  of 
