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ceutist ;  and  yet  so  intimately  is  it  connected  with  the  study  of  materia 
medica,  and  the  practical  distinguishment  of  organic  drugs,  that  it  seems 
almost  unaccountable  why  it  should  be  neglected.  None  of  the  American 
Schools  of  Pharmacy  have  regular  courses  on  botany,  so  far  as  we  know, 
yet  the  rudiments  are  generally  explained  by  the  teachers  of  materia  medica. 
We  believe  that  apothecaries  would  be  the  gainers  by  encouraging  their 
apprentices  to  cultivate  a  taste  for  this  science,  not  only  for  its  intrinsic 
usefulness,  but  as  affording  a  mental  occupation  greatly  advantageous  to 
the  boys  themselves.  Gray's,  Balfour's  or  Lindley's  ft  Elements"  will  be 
found  useful  text-books  for  beginners,  and  the  School  Book  of  Botany  by 
Mrs.  Lincoln  is  also  well  adapted. 
In  concluding  our  task  by  a  catalogue  of  works  of  reference  for  the 
pharmaceutist's  library,  it  will  require  some  care  to  avoid  a  redundancy. 
Besides  regular  treatises  on  the  sciences  collateral  to  Pharmacy,  the 
thoroughly  furnished  apothecary  will  require  formularies,  dictionaries, 
technologies,  etc. 
Gmelin's  handbook  of  Chemistry,  12  vols.,  now  publishing  by  the  Caven- 
dish Society. 
Regnault's  Chemistry,  2  vols. 
Lovvig's  Principles  of  Organic  and  Physiological  Chemistry. 
Gregory's  Organic  Chemistry,  (1856.) 
Muspratt's  Chemistry  of  Arts  and  Manufactures. 
Booth's  Encyclopedia  of  Chemistry. 
Griffith's  Medical  Botany. 
Pereira's  Materia  Medica. 
Dorvault's  FOfficine  (a  compendium  of  information  of  various  kinds  that 
relate  to  the  apothecary  business,  in  French.) 
Redwood's  Gray's  Supplement. 
Griffith's  Universal  Formulary. 
Mohr  and  Redwood's  Practical  Pharmacy. 
Parrish's  Practical  Pharmacy. 
Darby's  Translation  of  Wittstein's  Pharmaceutical  chemistry. 
It  was  moved  and  carried  that  a  Committee  of  three  be  ap- 
pointed to  recommend  a  suitable  Committee  to  draft  a  syllabus 
for  pharmaceutical  students,  and  report  at  a  future  sitting  of 
this  meeting. 
The  Chair  appointed  Wm.  Procter,  Jr.,  Charles  Ellis,  and 
Edward  S.  Wayne. 
On  further  discussion  this  Committee  was  instructed  to  act,  in- 
stead of  referring  it  to  another  Committee,  and  the  name  of 
Edward  Parrish  added  to  their  number. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  prizes  was  read  and  accepted. 
[This  report  informed  that  there  had  been  no  prize  essays  offered.] 
