474. Scientific Intelligence. 
the Teylerian Society. We have now received the seventh vol- 
ume, of 522. ‘pages, 8vo, with full indexes of names of authors and 
of genera of plants treated; this for the yea r 1878. With it, 
the first part of the eighth volume, of 211 pages, for a portion of 
the bibliography of 1879. The arrangement is clear: and we 
elaboration thorough. 
. Drugs and Medicines of North America; a ter ‘erly, ee 
voted to the Historical and Scientific Discussion of the any, 
Pharmacy, Chemistry and stoke pa of the MMe dicinal i Plat 
a 
TU . and C. G. Lloyd, 1884, —The title page on the cover _ 
fies the nature and scope of this work. The form is imperial 8vo. 
The three parts of the first volume, now before us, se) the dates 
respectively of April, July and October, reaching to 96 pages. 
The fullness of the work may be judged of mink we state that 
these pages are devoted to one natural family, the Ranunculaceae, 
and that by no means completed. Clematis Virginiana begins 
the first sey ni dani Canadensis fills the larger part of the 
third. Ther good figures. The second figure of Clematis 
crispa ou ht e i good, for it is eT 8 from the best original 
figure extant, and the sam e — be said of “others. ear are 
some elaborate magnified v of microscopical s We 
are struck with the eotdertdl ills of the Vistorical <8 piblio- 
graphical matters, also with the statistics or general statements 
the enormous amount of some of the herbs and roots which 
plant which is essentially inert. And the total haa collection 
of the root of Hydrastis “ — not vary much from 140,000 or 
- t this 
4, Das Botanische Practic um; by Professor Srrass 
. 664, 1884, 8vo. —Taken all in all, this is the most remark 
y wide 
each a due proportion of space. Therefore, if a student goes le 
fully and sion ofthe through the whole treatise, he will be placed 
the extreme care with which every didicalty in the path of the 
independent student is either smoothed down or removed, is a 
