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EDITORIAL. 
Notice  to  the  Members  or  tiie  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. — 
By  a  recently  adopted  law  of  the  College,  every  member  who  has  paid  7iis 
annual  contribution,  is  entitled  to  receive  this  Journal  free  of  charge.  Those 
members  who  have  complied  with  this  requisition,  and  have  not  received 
the  Journal,  will  have  it  sent  to  them  on  exhibiting  the  Treasurer's  re- 
ceipt at  the  office  of  publication,  56  Chestnut  Street.  Life  members  are 
equally  entitled  to  the  Journal. 
A  chart  of  Incompatibles  and  Poisons ;  embracing  the  chemical  theory  of  the 
former ;  and  the  antidotes,  tests,  &c,  appropriate  to  the  latter.  By  J.  W. 
Hoyt,  A.M.  M.D. 
This  chart,  neatly  printed  on  thick  paper,  25  x  30  inches  is  intended  to 
present  a  bird's-eye  view  of  the  subjects  indicated  in  the  title,  applicable  to 
the  physician  and  apothecary  for  reference  on  emergency.  It  will  be  found 
useful  on  many  occasions  when  hints  are  needed  and  time  is  too  scarce  to 
look  into  regular  treatises.    It  is  published  by  E.  0.  S.  Hoyt  of  Cincinnati. 
Materia  Medica,  or  Pharmacology  and  Therapeutics.    By  William  Tully, 
M.D.,  Vol.  1,  No.  14.  December,  1853. 
Dr.  Tully  is  again  at  work,  and  after  considerable  delay  the  present  num- 
ber, due  in  1853,  is  dated  1855.  It  is  occupied  with  the  narcotics  as  a  class — 
vegetable  and  chemical,  and  offers  some  views  of  pharmacodynamics  as 
singular  as  they  are  original.  We  are  glad  to  find  Dr.  Tully  is  proceeding 
with  this  work.  lie  is  an  original  thinker,  but  is  too  much  hedged  in  by 
peculiar  and  eccentric  ideas,  and  embodies  his  views  in  language  so  mysti- 
fied by  his  ultra  technical  nomenclature,  that  their  force  is  lost  in  the  diffi- 
culty of  attributing  the  correct  meaning  as  you  follow  him. 
Transactions  of  the  State  Medical  Society  ["of  New  York,]  transmitted  to  the 
Legislature,  Feb.  8th,  1856.  Albany,  pp.  254. 
The  above  work  has  been  received.  The  first  sixty-three  pages  are  taken 
up  with  an  eulogium  upon  the  life  and  character  of  Dr.  Theodoric  Romeyn 
Beck,  by  Frank  II.  Hamilton,  M.  D.,  President  of  the  Society.  The  other 
articles  are  reports  on  medical  subjects,  and  the  proceedings  of  the  Society. 
Dr.  Beck  was  born  on  the  11th  of  August,  1791,  and  died  on  the  19th  cf 
March,  1855,  aged  sixty-four  years  and  a  quarter.  Dr.  Beck  was  well  known 
as  the  author  of  "  Beck's  Medical  Jurisprudence,"  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  was  a  member  of  many  learned  societies,  both  at  home  and  in  Eu- 
rope, where  few  Americans  have  been  better  known. 
