The materia medica Museum of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Paris. ; The Museum of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Paris, originates from the collections of the School of Pharmacy (rue de l'Arbalete) which itself herited of the College of Pharmacy (1777) and of the Cabinet of Natural history (1763), same road. ; Since 1882, these collections were installated in the present buildings by Pr. G. Planchon (1866-1900). Many samples had been gathered by his predecessor, Pr. N.-J.-B. Guibourt (1832-1866). ; This work has been continued and increased by Pr. E. Perrot (1900-1937), Pr. M. Mascre (1937-1947), and, since 1947, by Pr. R. Paris. At the present time, the Museum counts up 22 000 drug-samples, most of them of vegetable origin. ; The Museum includes : ; - a general collection (5 000 samples), classified by botanical order (Bentham and Hooker classification) ; ; - the Guibourt collection (1 300 samples), in a special gallery ; ; -1- the geographical collections (7 000 samples : 2 500 from Asia, 2 400 from Africa, 2 000 from America, 100 from South-«ea Islands), originating from universal and national expositions, from different missions [some done by Pr. Perrot, other by military-chemists, especially N. Laffitte 1933-1939, others of O.R.S.T.O.M. (Scientific and technical overseas Research Institute)], or coming from gifts of french or foreign colleagues, from societies, from druggists, etc. ; ; - monographs, classified by the main constituents : coffein-drugs (Tea, Coffee, Kola, Mate, Guarana), Cocoa, Spices, oleaginous drugs (especially Chaulmoogra), gums, resins, balsams, rubber, gutta, essential oils, starches, etc. ; ; - in the centre, a piece of furniture (Pagoda) contains a remarkable collection of Cinchona barks (500 samples), narcotics (Opium, Coca, Cannabis), arrow-poisons (especially curares), ordeal-poisons, poisonous arrows, etc. ; ; - besides, a fruit and seed-collection (1 600 samples), some animal drugs (60 samples), herbals of medicinal plants (3 000 samples) and a collection of vegetable constituents.