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the Hcematozoon malarice ; and no bacteriol- 

 ogist or pathologist attaches any importance 

 to Toiiimasi-Crudeli's alleged Bacillus mala- 

 rice. The typhoid bacillus was discovered by 

 Eberth, not Gaffky, who simply confiiined 

 in 1884 Eberth's discovery and announce- 

 ment made in 1880. Nor did Dr. Klein dis- 

 cover the Bacillus pneurnonice in 1888, as 

 Friedlander had made pure cultures of these 

 organisms in 1883. In fact, the bacteriology 

 of the volume has been written by a person 

 having a very limited acquaintance with the 

 subject. No reference is made to Miquel's, 

 Adametz's, Beumer's, Maggiora's, Frankel's, 

 Giaxa's, Proskauer's, Manf redi's, and Fiilles's 

 investigations of the relation of micro-organ- 

 isms to the soil. 



While the book might have been more 

 complete, it is still sufficiently extensive to 

 be of great use to any student of sanitary 

 science. 



The Disease of Inebriety from Alcohol, 

 Opium, and other Narcotic Drugs. Ar- 

 ranged and compiled by the American 

 Association for the Study and Cure of 

 Inebriety. New York : E. B. Treat. Pp. 

 400. Price, $2.75. 



The association named above was organ- 

 ized in IS'IO, and has a membership com- 

 posed of physicians connected with asylums 

 for inebriates, and other persons interested 

 in the study of the drink problem. Its car- 

 dinal doctrine is that inebriety is a disease, 

 and is curable as other diseases are. It fur- 

 ther postulates that all methods hitherto em- 

 ployed for the treatment of inebriety that 

 have not recognized the disordered physical 

 condition caused by alcohol, opium, or other 

 narcotics have proved inadequate in its cure ; 

 hence the establishment of hospitals for the 

 special treatment of inebriety, in which such 

 conditions are recognized, becomes a posi- 

 tive need of the age. The association has 

 been in the habit of holding annual and semi- 

 annual meetings, in which a large number of 

 papers have been presented, read, and dis- 

 cussed. Six volumes of Transactions were 

 issued, and the (Quarterly Journal of Ine- 

 briety was established. Its special work has 

 been to gather and group the scientific liter- 

 ature of the subject and make it available 

 for future study. In addition to this liter- 

 ature many members of the association have 

 published volumes on the subject ; valuable 



papers have appeared in this country and 

 Europe. Many of these works having passed 

 out of print, the secretary of the society. Dr. 

 T. D. Crothers, was authorized to prepare a 

 volume to contain the most reliable conclu- 

 sions and studies of eminent authorities on 

 all phases of the disease up to the present 

 time. In this volume are discussed the etiol- 

 ogy, pathology, treatment, and medico-legal 

 relations of inebriety. The selections have 

 been gathered from more than five thousand 

 pages of printed matter published in the 

 Journal and Transactions, and are from pa- 

 pers which have not appeared elsewhere, and 

 hence will be new to most physicians. But it 

 is acknowledged that, while the facts are very 

 numerous and startling and fully sustain the 

 principles of the association, they are not 

 yet sufiiciently studied and generalized to be 

 accepted as absolute truths. 



Missouri Botanical Garden, Fourth An- 

 nual Report. St. Louis : Published by 

 the Board of Trustees. Pp. 226, with 

 23 Plates. Price, $1. 



While no extensive improvements have 

 been undertaken at the garden during the 

 year, the liberal appropriations made for its 

 support have been judiciously expended, and 

 the accounts show a handsome surplus of 

 funds. The library contains now 11,455 

 books and pamphlets, and the herbarium 

 203,000 sheets of specimens. The number 

 of visitors to the grounds has considerably 

 increased as compared with previous years ; 

 and so far as could be gathered from their 

 remarks, they have shown an appreciation of 

 the improvements that have been made, es- 

 pecially of the more natural grouping of the 

 plants, and of the addition of large speci- 

 mens of cacti, yuccas, etc., from the arid re- 

 gions. The last include a number of repre- 

 sentatives of characteristic species from the 

 dry districts of Texas, Arizona, and Cali- 

 fornia. The additions to the herbarium have 

 consisted of the current American collections, 

 about three thousand duplicates from the 

 herbarium of the late John Ball, a set of the 

 valuable Exsiccatce of the Austrian flora, 

 given by the Vienna Museum, and many 

 smaller collections and single specimens pre- 

 sented by correspondents. A card index to 

 the species of plants described and figured 

 in works at the garden has been begun ; and 



