Am.  .Jour.  Pbarm. 
May,  ls92. 
Editorial. 
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New  College  Buildings. — A  Committee  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  has  been  at  work  for  some  time  past  perfecting 
plans  for  erecting  a  new  front  building  on  Tenth  Street,  and  for  making  various 
changes  and  improvements  in  the  lecture-rooms  and  laboratories  contained  in 
the  buildings,  which  extend  eastward  to  Elwyn  Street.  Immediately  after  the 
close  of  the  examinations  the  four  houses,  Nos.  139  to  145,  fronting  on  North 
Tenth  Street,  were  vacated,  and  at  the  present  time,  near  the  close  of  April, 
have  been  almost  completely  taken  down,  so  that  early  in  May  the  preparations 
for  building  the  foundations  will  be  completed.  Without  intending  to  give  a 
description  of  the  improvements  now  under  way,  it  will  be  of  interest  to  our 
readers  to  mention  the  principal  features,  which  may  be  briefly  stated  as 
follows  :  The  ground  floor  of  the  new  building  will  contain  the  entrance  to  the 
lecture-rooms  and  laboratories,  •  the  actuary's  office  with  reception-room,  a 
committee-room  and  the  library.  -The  second  and  third  stories  will  form  a 
large  hall,  with  galleries,  for  the  accommodation  of  the  College  Museum, 
including  the  various  collections  ;  the  fourth  story  will  contain  the  publication 
office  of  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  and  the  private  office  of  the 
editor  ;  also  a  hall  for  the  Alumni  Association  and  rooms  for  the  janitor  and 
his  family.  The  fifth  and  sixth  stories  will  be  reserved  for  general  purposes 
as  needed  by  the  College.  The  improvements  now  under  way  necessitate  also 
the  taking  down  of  a  portion  of  the  west  wall  of  the  College  building  erected 
in  1868,  for  the  purpose  of  remodelling  the  principal  stairway.  The  hall,  which 
has  thus  far  been  used  as  the  museum,  will  become  Professor  Sadtler's  lecture- 
room,  and  thus  the  chemical  department  of  the  College,  including  lecture-room 
and  chemical  laboratories,  will  be  located  on  the  ground  floor.  The  interior  of 
the  lecture-rooms  for  pharmacy  and  for  materia  medica  will  be  completely 
torn  out  and  refitted,  with  the  view  of  facilitating  the  instructions  and  furnish- 
ing greater  convenience  to  the  students.  The  laboratories  will  also  be 
rearranged  and  enlarged,  and  the  details  of  lighting,  heating  and  ventilating 
the  buildings  will  receive  due  attention.  All  the  improvements  will  be  com- 
pleted during  the  coming  summer,  and  the  new  front  building  will  be  ready 
for  occupancy  by  October  1st.  In  the  meantime  the  temporary  offices  of  the 
Journal  and  of  the  College  will  be  at  147  North  Tenth  Street,,  in  the  house 
adjoining  the  College  property. 
The  St.  Louis  College  of  Pharmacy  has  commenced  the  erection  of  a  new 
building  ;  and  the  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy  will  in  a  few  days  decide 
on  the  site  upon  which  to  erect  a  building  suitable  for  its  use. 
Prosecutions  against  druggists  and  apothecaries. — The  Pennsylvania  Phar- 
macy law  makes  it  the  duty  of  the  State  Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board  to 
investigate  all  charges  of  violation  of  its  provisions,  and  to  prosecute  all  per- 
sons so' offending.  On  March  30th  last,  two  wholesale  drug  firms  were  bound 
over  by  Magistrate  Pole  to  answer  the  charge  of  adulterating  and  falsifying 
laudanum  and  selling  it  in  violation  of  Section  9  of  the  pharmacy  law.  At  the 
preliminary  hearing,  it  was  testified  that  a  detective  had  bought  one  dozen 
bottles  of  laudanum  at  each  place,  for  which  45  cents  was  paid.  According  to 
the  testimony  of  Prof.  Dr.  Leffmann,  the  laudanum  was  deficient  in  strength 
from  33  to  55  per  cent.  The  penalty  for  "  knowingly,  wilfully  or  fraudulently 
falsifying  or  adulterating  .  .  .  any  preparation  authorized  or  recoguized  by  the 
