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Pharmacy,  upon  some  worthy  lad  who  lacks  the  means.  *  *  * 
I  think  Prof.  William  Procter,  Jr.,  would  have  been  well  pleased 
with  this. 
The  research  laboratory  idea  is  all  right,  but  it  had  better  be  left 
to  those  with  unstinted  means;  this  is  more  a  labor  of  love  than  vain 
glory  and  should  be  made  up  of  contributions  like  unto  the  widow's 
mite. 
We  want  something  simple,  impressive  and  lasting,  dignified  and 
true  to  the  purpose.  Anything  involving  a  large  expenditure  will 
either  not  be  realized  or  only  create  an  opening  for  would-be  gen- 
iuses. .  Prof.  William  Procter,  Jr.,  and  his  memory  would  be  lost  in 
the  refulgence  cast  by  the  halos  around  the  heads  of  "  Research 
Laboratory  "  workers. 
Let  us  love  and  honor  the  man  for  his  many  cardinal  virtues, 
but  in  such  a  way  that  his,  and  only  his,  memory  get  the  full  benefit. 
I  have  no  use  for  these  double-edged  schemes,  which  are  like  unto 
the  Spanish  proverb  which  says :  "  He  who  asks  for  God,  asks  for 
two."    (A  reference  made  to  the  pious  monks  asking  charity.) 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
E.  FOUGERA. 
RECENT  LITERATURE  RELATING  TO  PHARMACY. 
BACTERICIDAL  ACTION  OF  PAINTS. 
Cultures  of  various  pathogenic  bacilli — such  as  those  of  diphtheria, 
cholera  and  typhoid — transferred  to  freshly  painted  surfaces  of  wood, 
tinplate  and  earthenware,  and  observed  under  various  conditions  of 
time  and  temperature,  were  destroyed  in  every  case,  as  shown  by 
the  inability  to  produce  new  cultures  from  the  experimental  mate- 
rial. That  the  destruction  was  not  due  to  chemicals  was  shown  by 
the  fact  that  the  same  cultures  thrived  in  1  per  cent,  solutions  of 
magnesium  chloride  and  of  arsenous  acid. 
The  writer,  noting  that  linseed  oil  paints  were  the  best  germicides 
and  also  that  all  such  paints,  on  drying,  react  to  ozone  paper,  con- 
cludes that  the  antiseptic  action  of  paints  is  due  to  the  formation  of 
ozone  in  the  oxidation  of  drying  oils.  (M.Piorkowski,  Bericht.  dtsch. 
Ph.  Ges.,  1901,  85). 
H.  V.  Arny. 
