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BOOK REVIEWS. 
CHEMICAL LrecruRE Notes. Taken from Prof. C. O. Curtman’s lectures 
at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy. By H. M. Whelpley, Ph: G., 
Professor of microscopy and Quiz master of Pharmacognosy and Botany 
in the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, etc. Second edition, revised and 
enlarged by the addition of notes on the metals. St. Louis, Mo. Pub- 
lished by the author, 1888. 
In the preparation of this little volume the author has followed 
the full lectures given by an eminent teacher of chemistry to his class 
of pharmaceutical students. The object of the author is evidently 
to give to students a convenient book for the review of lectures and 
for ready reference in the class room and laboratory, in place of the 
imperfect notes that they may take for themselves. We believe the 
attention given to note-taking at lectures distracts the student’s 
mind and prevents him from fully digesting, at the time, the 
expressions of the teacher. With an aid such as the one before us, 
the student can concentrate his mind on the substance of the lecture 
and then review it in his quiet study hours. The notes are very full 
and cover the whole field of chemical physics and inorganic 
chemistry. The notes on the salts of the metals will prove to be of 
very great value to the laboratory student. In the part devoted to 
theoretical chemistry we notice some deficiencies. Nothing is said 
of the laws of the combination of elements by weight and volume, 
and but a few lines are given to the important subject of violence. 
In a book containing such a mass of facts these are minor defi- 
ciencies. When the author shall see fit to add notes on the chemis- 
try of the carbon compounds he will have one of the most complete 
of handbooks on chemistry. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN Society oF Mrcroscopists. Eleventh 
Annual Meeting, held at Columbus, Ohio, August 21st to 24th, 1838, _ 
Vol. X. é 
Although somewhat smaller in size than the Proceedings issued 
for the past two or three years, the volume before us shows a table 
of contents that isin no wise inferior to those already published. 
Indeed, although the attendance at the Columbus meeting was com- 
paratively small, the papers were of an unusually high character, and 
appear in the proceedings without the customary padding of pro- 
ductions less meritorious. The typography, paper, illustrations and 
general mechanical work are excellent, and we congratulate the pub- 
lication committee on the prompt issuing of the volume. 
One defect, however, which we cannot overlook, is the absence 
of the Treasurer’s report, and the statement of the Custodian as to the 
Society’s property in his hands. As these reports might, we should 
