THE JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOG1. 



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potash within the stalks of the poisonous form of the fodder, especially 

 about the nodes, and appears to have clearly established the fact that the 

 poisonous effects are due to this agent. 



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BOOK REVIEWS 



The Pharmaceutical Archives.— We are in receipt of the fiist 

 number of the Pharmaceutical AirJiices., and it is certain- 

 ly a veiy attractive contribution to the pharmaceutical sciences. 

 The number contains an excellent illustrated article by J. 0. Schlotterbeck 

 and A. Van Zwaluwenburg on the comparative structure of the leaves < i 

 Datura Stramonium, Atropa Belladonna and Hyoscyamus Niger, and an- 

 other, by Eollin H. Denniston, on the anatomy of the stems of Fraxinus: a 

 Chemical Biography of Morphine, from. 1875 to 1896, by H. E. Brown, and 

 list of the common names, with other facts of interest, of some of the native 

 drugs of Brazil, by Dr. Theodor Peckolt. 



We hope to see the "Archives*' wax and grow heavy, and trust for it a 

 generous recognition. J. 



A Text Book on General Botany. By Carlton C. Curtis, A. M., 

 Ph. D., Tutor in Botany, Columbia University. 



A large number of text books of botany have appeared within the past 

 few years. The present one is, we believe, a very excellent addition to the 

 number. In certain particulars it is a work of especial value, as it takes up 

 plant anatomy, plant physiology, systematic morphology and some paleo 

 botany, all in one volume. This general character necessarily involves a 

 certain brevity of treatment, but for the beginner the present amount ol 

 information is, we believe, ample and well digested. 



The work is to be specially commended to the outside worker as well 

 as the student in the laboratory, as the series of practical directions follow- 

 ing each subject handled places in the hands of the non-instructed the 

 means of self -instruction. In these series of practical directions a closer ad- 

 herence to the common names of plants would render the work of more 

 value, especially to the outside worker; for the worker in a laboratory natu- 

 rally it makes but little difference. 



The book is beautifully gotten up, and is especially well illustrated in 

 the systematic portions; there is a dearth of illustrations in the anatomical 

 portions, however, in which subject good illustrations are of so much peda- 

 gogic value. 



The work in general is to be recommended, and we hope for it a gen- 

 erous recognition of its estimable features. J. 



Manual of Legal Medicine. — For the Use of Practitioners and 

 Students of Medicine and Law. By Justin Heroic", A. M., M. D. J. B. 

 Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1898. 



