THE NEW YORK. TOLfRiMAL OF PHARMACY 



Biddle "The Vegetable Alkaloids," 

 Van Rijn "Die Glykoside," Winter- 

 stein & Trier "Die Alkaloide, " Mann 

 "Die Moderne Parfumerie," such 

 works of technological chemistry as 

 Bolley and also Thorpe, the best books 

 on analytical chemistry (including, of 

 course, Fresenius) Abderhalden's and 

 also Hoppe-Seyler's classic works on 

 physiological chemistry and Cohn- 

 heim's "Chemie der Eiweisskorper." 

 And what is still more satisfactory is 

 that most of the original articles re- 

 ferred to in the books just mentioned 

 can be consulted in the journals on our 

 shelves. We have seven English and 

 American journals, including the pub- 

 lications of the American and of the 

 English Chemical Societies. We have 

 10 German journals, including almost 

 complete files of Liebig's Annalen and 

 the "Berichte" of the German Chemical 

 Society,and we have partial files of the 

 Compte rendu of the French Academy 

 and the Journal de Pharmacie et Chemie. 



Mention has already been made of 

 how indispensable to the library 

 worker are those pharmaceutical pub- 

 lications which give in aljstract all of 

 the published work of the year. This 

 type of publication is particularly well 

 furnished in chemistry, and in our 

 library we have Chemical Abstracts 

 and Chemisches Centralblatt as well 

 as practically complete files of Liebig- 

 Kopp "Jahresbericht und die Fort- 

 schritte der Chemie" and Wagner- 

 Fischer's "Jahresbericht der Chemis- 

 chen Technologic." 



Let us close by giving a concrete 

 example of what we can do with our 

 library. Choosing at random, suppose 

 we were looking for some information 

 regarding Valerian and its prepara- 



tions. Turning to Tschirsch's Hand- 

 buch der Pharmakognosie we find 14 

 pages (Part II, pp. 511-525), given to 

 this subject and in his bibliography 

 there are ten references (to books and 

 journals) to the etymology; 15 to bo- 

 tanical origin; 7 to the culture; 17 to 

 the anatomy ; 58 to the chemistry and 

 7 to the adulteration and uses of the 

 drug. As to the pharmacy of Valerian, 

 we find in the Proceedings of the 

 American Pharmaceutical Association 

 2 references to the fluid extract, one 

 to the tincture, 3 to valerianic acid, 4 

 to ammonium valerianate. Assuming 

 it is valeric acid and valerates regard- 

 ing which we wish information, we 

 turn to Beilstein and we find reference 

 to thirty-five papers on iso-valeric acid 

 (the pharmaceutical variety), and in 

 order to complete the bibliography to 

 date since the publication of Beilstein 

 (1899), we find in Liebig-Kopp Jahres- 

 berichte up to 1908, forty-four refer- 

 ences to the valerianic acid, and in the 

 Chemical Abstracts of 1909 to 1912, in- 

 clusive, seven other articles on valeric 

 acids and preparations of same. And, 

 as mentioned above, on our shelves we 

 find a large percentage of the journals 

 in which the original articles were pub- 

 lished, thus giving opportunity of read- 

 ing the paper in full. 



The foregoing is but one of many 

 ilustrations of the richness of the Col- 

 lege library and indicates the service 

 it can render to those desiring infor- 

 mation on practically every phase of 

 pharmacy. It is offered to every one 

 desiring pharmaceutical information 

 and each year its value is becoming 

 more appreciated not only by the drug 

 trade of Greater New York, but also 

 by chemists and physicians of the 

 vicinity. 



