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ciation,  the  obligations  of  its  Constitution  and  Code  of  Ethics,  is  willing  to 
subscribe  to  them,  is  eligible  to  membership." 
There  are  four  stated  meetings  of  the  Association  ;  on  the  1st  Wednes- 
day of  April,  July,  October  and  January  of  each  year  ;  the  April  meeting 
being  considered  the  annual  meeting.  Provision  is  made  at  these  meetings 
for  the  reading  of  scientific  essays  or  other  papers  on  professional  subjects 
after  the  other  business  of  the  meetings  i3  transacted. 
The  Code  of  Ethics  adopted  by  the  ''Association"  is  an  excellent  docu- 
ment, andis  clearand  explicit  in  reference  to  quackery,  the  Pharmacopoeia, 
the  mutual  relations  of  apothecaries,  and  of  these  with  physicians,  and  in 
relation  to  poisons. 
In  conclusion,  wo  congratulate  our  friends  of  the  District,  on  the  suc- 
cessful inauguration  of  the  Association,  and  wish  them  a  bright  future. 
Prizes  of  toe  Pharmaceutical  Society. — The  Council  of  the  Pharma- 
ceutical Society  of  Great  Britain  have  recently  adopted  the  plan  of  offering 
annual  prizes  as  an  encouragement  to  the  pharmaceutists  of  that  country 
to  cultivate  the  scientific  department  of  their  business.  The  prize  is  in 
each  instance  a  silver  medal,  two  grades  of  which  are  used:  The  "  Council 
Medal,"  and  the  "  Pereira  Medal."  The  first  prize  offered  is  for  the  best 
essay  "On  the  preparation  of  Cerates,  Ointment  and  Plasters."  The  points 
particularly  sought  to  be  investigated  are  pointed  out.  The  competitors 
must  be  members  or  associates  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society,  and  the  es- 
says, with  appropriate  mottos  on  the  outside  of  their  envelopes,  must  be 
presented  by  1st  of  August,  1857. 
The  Pereira  medal  is  offered  for  the  best  essay  "On  the  development  and 
structure  of  the  starch  granule,  and  the  means  of  distinguishing  the  more 
important  commercial  starches."  The  competitors  must  also  be  members 
or  associates  of  the  Society.  A  silver  Council  medal  is  offered  for  the  best 
herbarium,  collected  between  the  1st  day  of  May,  1856,  and  the  1st  day  of 
August,  1857,  and  arranged  according  to  the  natural  system. 
This  plan  of  offering  prizes  as  an  encouragement  to  talent  and  ambi- 
tion among  pharmaceutists,  has  long  been  practised  by  the  Society  of 
Pharmacy  of  Paris — who,  however,  offer  the  prizes  in  money.  In  the  Bri- 
tish prizes  the  stimulus  will  be  the  honor  attached  to  the  attainment  of  the 
prize,  and  we  doubt  not  it  will  be  responded  to  with  spirit. 
Ipecacuanha  Plants. — Prof.  Joseph  Carson,  of  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania, has  received  a  box  containing  several  living  plants  of  Cephaelia 
Ipecacuanha,  sent  from  Brazil  by  a  correspondent  in  Rio.  We  have  seen 
these  plants  in  tiie  greenhouse  of  Prof.  Wood,  and  find  that  three  of  them 
are  healthy,  and  likely  to  thrive.  So  far  as  we  are  aware,  these  are  the 
first  living  specimens  of  tho  Cephacilis  that  have  reached  this  country. 
