candidates of the Constitutional Union party— John Bell, once United States Senator from Tennessee and Secretary of War and his running mate Edward Everett, the peerless orator and edu- cator. This gathering too was held in front of the court house with Henry E. Slaymaker, Lancaster businesss man, in the

- portant in the history of pharmacy in the United States, for it has to do with our first pharmacopoeia. The early apothecaries of American naturally had only pharmacopoeias of the European countries to rely upon for formulae, and some apothecaries, spurning even these, used their own, so that there was no