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tion there are brought together under each drug the data relating 

 to its constituents, adulterations, botanical and commercial origin, 

 etc. The key for the identification of powdered drugs is of 

 especial importance and will prove of great value to pharmacists. 

 While essentially the scheme originally published in the Proceed- 

 ings of the American Pharmaceutical Association in 1898, and 

 for which the Ebert and Maisch prize was awarded to Professor 

 Kraemer, it will be noted that it has been substantially recast and 

 elaborated and appears for the first time accompanied by a key 

 and index. , 



This systematic description of drugs after the manner of the 

 botanical systematist, appearing for the first time in a work of 

 this kind is the most important and valuable feature of the book, 

 and will prove to have great advantage over the plan of treat- 

 ment given in pharmacopoeias. 



Carlton C. Curtis. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 



Tuesday, December 9, 1902 



This meeting was held at the College of Pharmacy ; Dr. Rusby 

 in the chair ; 1 2 persons present. 



The deaths of two members were reported by the secretary, of 

 the Very Reverend E. A. Hoffman, June 17, 1902, and of Dr. 

 T. F. Allen, December 5, 1902. Resolutions in honor of the 

 latter, a vice-president and founder of the Torrey Club, are in 

 preparation, and his funeral at St. Thomas' Church on December 

 8, was attended by representatives of the Club. 



One new member was elected, Mrs. Frank E. Curtis, 78 

 Orange Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



The scientific program followed. The first paper was by Pro- 

 fessor A. D. Selby, on " Cultures of the Grape-rot Fungus," with 

 exhibition of culture-tubes containing its fully developed perithecia, 

 spore-sacs and spores, derived from pycnospores upon the grape 

 leaf. This fungus has menaced the grape industry in Ohio, pro- 

 ducing rotting of fruit and spotting of leaf. 



