Excerpt from Outlines of Lectures on Materia Medica and Botany, Vol. 2: Delivered in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia

Though the arrangement adopted in this volume, is sufficiently plain to the student, it may not be amiss to make a few remarks on the advantages it presents, for acquiring a knowledge of the subjects of Materia Medica. It will be perceived, that a reference is made, under each number, to the specimens of the articles treat ed of under it, which belong to my Cabinet of Materia Medica and Botany in Jefferson College. This cabinet is the' result of a gradu ally increased collection of interesting specimens, and fine figures of all the medicinal plants of the Materia Medica, during eleven years that I have been a Professor, and Teacher of Botany, Vegeta ble Materia Medica, and Vegetable Toxicology, in-the University of Pennsylvania. Many of the more rare specimens have been con. Tributed by my eminent correspondents, Professors in the different Universities of the Continent of' Europe; especially by Professor Mertens of Bremen; Professor Schrader of Gottingen; Professor Sprengel of Halle Professors Desfontain and Thoiiin of Paris; and many highly valuable specimens from Professor Horneman of the University of Copenhagen, whose liberality has been usefully pro pitiated by my friend, his excellency, Mr. Pedersen, late minister from Denmark to the United States. To my pupils, in the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, during the period mentioned, the Cabinet is also indebted for many; and for some rare specimens from the West Indies, and from Louisiana, it stands indebted to my assidu. Ous pupils, George Terrill, M. D. And Henry W. Bassett, M. D. Surgeons of the United States Navy; two gentlemen who have con tributed to science, by pursuing assiduously the official recom. Mendation given to the junior medical officers of the service, by the Hon. Samuel 'l. Southard, Secretary of the Navy, to avail them selves of the opportunities their continuance in this city during a respite from duty, afforded them, of cultivating the Science of Botany; a recommendation, being one of the numerous acts of that distinguished director of the navy, which has elevated the dignity, respectability, and usefulness, of its Medical Corps.

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