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served an apprenticeship with a member of the College of at 
least four years;* and have sustained a character of moral 
worth, industry and intelligence with his preceptor. No ad- 
vantages or privileges have been extended by the laws, to the 
members or graduates. Competition exists to an unlimited 
extent, and fortunately for society has, within a few years, 
been directed to the improvement of formulas, and the selec- 
tion of the best qualities of medicines, rather than to its uni- 
versal tendency, the mere cheapening in price. Many of the 
preparations of the present National Pharmacopoeia owe their 
origin, or important modifications, in the mode of preparation, 
to the members or graduates of this College. The College is 
possessed of a Hall, in which its meetings are held, and Lec- 
tures delivered. 
Of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York, I 
have not been able to obtain so much information. — Its for- 
mation was the result of voluntary action and association 
among the druggists of that city, which was brought about by 
the same praiseworthy objects, which had induced the estab- 
lishment of the Philadelphia college. 
The charter declares the objects to be "for the purpose of 
cultivating, improving and making known a knowledge of 
Pharmacy, its collateral branches of science, and the best 
mode of preparing medicines and their compounds ; and of 
giving instruction in the same by public lectures." The Di- 
ploma of this college can only be obtained by those who have 
attended two courses of lectures of the college, and have studied 
four years with a respectable druggist or apothecary, and 
* It is stated in a " Note upon the state of Pharmacy in the United 
States" by M. Fontenelle, contained in a recent number of the Journal 
de Chemie Medicate, that the time of apprenticeship is limited to one year. 
We would wish our transatlantic friends to understand that this is an 
error, as will be perceived from the above expose. It must have arisen 
from the difficulties under which Don Ramon de la Sagra laboured, in 
obtaining information upon the subject, viz. those attendant upon an im- 
perfect knowledge of our language. From his book, the information in 
the note is professedly taken. — Ed. 
