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diagnoses are more conducive to habits of observation. 
This change too is of advantage to the student’s future 
studies in Botany, as it familiarizes him with the method 
always employed in more scientific works. Next follow 
the descriptions of the plants themselves, the names of 
the orders, genera, and species being in Egyptian type, 
rendering them at once distinct from the other letter- 
press. As an illustration of the hook, we will quote from 
it the description of the sweet Violet. 
“ 2. V. odorata, L .; slightly hairy or downy, runners 
very long, leaves broadly cordate, spur nearly straight, 
style hooked, stigma oblique. Siveet Violet. 
“ Hedgebanks and copses, wild in E. and S. E. England, 
naturalized elsewhere, perhaps native of E. Ireland; fl. 
March-May .—Rootstock short, scarred. Leaves deeply 
cordate at the base, sinus closed; stipules glandular. 
Bracts at or about the middle of the peduncle. Flowers 
fragrant, blue, white, or red-purple; lateral petals with 
or without a tuft of hairs; spur short, obtuse. Anther- 
spurs linear-oblong. Capsule pubescent, pedicels de- 
curved.— Distrib. Europe, N. Africa, N. and W. Asia, 
to the Himalaya.” 
In the Umbcilifcras, in addition to the diagnosis, there 
is an analytical key. In some of the critical genera, Hr. 
Hooker has followed some well-known authority. The 
genera Rosa and Rubus have had the benefit of Mr. 
Baker’s care, whose well-known accurate knowledge of 
them is fully recognized by British and Continental 
botanists. 
In conclusion, we cordially recommend the hook to 
students as a companion in their country rambles in 
search of 
“ These stars of earth,—these golden flowers.” 
A pastime at once healthgiving, intellectual, and men¬ 
tally elevating and soothing. 
_ BOOKS RECEIVED. 
Eczema; its Nature and Treatment, and incidentally the 
influence of Constitutional conditions on Skin Diseases, 
being the Lettsonian Lectures for the Session 1869-70. 
By Tilbury Fox, M.D., etc. London: Henry Renshaw, 
356, Strand. 1870. 
Characteristics oe the Principal Wines we Drink. 
By A. DuPRfi, Ph.D., F.C.S. Reprinted from the ‘ Popular 
Science Review.’ London: Robert Hardwicke, 192, Picca¬ 
dilly. 1870. 
SIR JAMES CLARK, BART., M.D., F.R.S. 
We regret to have to announce the death of this emi¬ 
nent physician, which occurred on Wednesday, the 29th 
of June, at Bagshot Park, Surrey. The deceased baronet, 
who was the son of a farmer, was born in Banffshire, in 
1788. He was educated at King’s College, Aberdeen, 
and completed his medical studies at Edinburgh Uni¬ 
versity, where he took the degree of M.D. Having 
passed some years in the service of the navy, he, in 
1820, settled as a physician in Rome. Six years after¬ 
wards he returned to England, and practised in London. 
He was appointed physician to the Duchess of Kent and 
Princess Victoria, as well as to the late King of the Bel¬ 
gians, and on the accession of her Majesty to the throne, 
she made him her first physician, and conferred upon him 
a baronetcy. Sir James took a lively interest in the pro¬ 
ceedings of the Pharmaceutical Society, especially at the 
time of its establishment, and for many years afterwards. 
He died at the advanced age of eighty-two. 
We have also to announce the death of Mr. Thomas 
Salman, Cornwall Road, Westboume Park, a much re¬ 
spected member of our Society. He died at his residence 
on the 12th of June, deeply and J deservedly regretted 
by a large circle of friends. 
Communications for this Journal , and books for review , 
should be addressed to the Editor, 17, Bloomsbury Square. 
The “Age of Progress,” and the Provincial 
Members. 
Dear Sir,—In the last issue of the Journal, in the article 
entitled “ An Age of Progress,” you laudably endeavour to 
enlighten the benighted provincial members of the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society, and so philanthropic is your aim, that 
you kindly become the interpreter of a word, the subtle 
meaning of which you presume to think they have hitherto 
been unable to comprehend; in short, you attempt, though 
I apprehend without the least necessity, to show what the 
Pharmaceutical Council is, and what it is not. 
I grant you that the Council is not “A Young Man’s- 
Mutual Improvement Association,” I also grant you that it 
“aims at working out and protecting the interests of the 
Pharmaceutical Society,” “which are grave,” that its “talk” 
is “serious talk,” and “thoroughly effectual as regards re¬ 
sult;” but from the grave and effectual character of its pro¬ 
ceedings I maintain that the “ serious talk” which culminates 
occasionally in speech-making, when a “storm passes over its 
otherwise tranquil waters,” is eminently useful for publica¬ 
tion, and would do much to enlighten the provincials, and 
consequently would forward “ An Ago of Progress.” 
Of such vital interest have the proceedings of the Society 
become, since the passing of the Pharmacy Act, not only to 
the members themselves but to the entire trade, that nothing 
but dissatisfaction and want of perfect confidence will prevail, 
until the Council’s proceedings are fully and faithfully re¬ 
ported. 
No doubt there will be some slight disadvantage in pub¬ 
licity, but the greater weight of advantage will counter¬ 
balance all inconvenience. The only safe and simple plan is 
that of publicity, and whether the present Council will or not, 
that object will be attained. 
If it be wished to have a good and reliable Council, com¬ 
posed of trusted and tried men, what better plan can be de¬ 
vised to enable the “provincials” to judge of their character 
and capacity than that which publicity would afford ? If it 
be wished not to have another avalanche of “provincials,” 
publicity may avert this great disaster. 
I am sure I regret, and all will regret, that any gentlemen 
who have faithfully served us on the Council should be passed 
by. Still I cannot see how such an unfortunate result can 
be prevented at a time of excitement, like that preceding 
the recent election, when the trade, perhaps solely for the 
want of that information which fully reported proceedings 
would give, was rudely disturbed and unsettled by the pre¬ 
mature and unwise attempt to interfere with patent medi¬ 
cines, and with the storage of poisons, 
I trust, however, notwithstanding the free provincial ad¬ 
mixture in the new Council, that it will be as useful and as 
zealous as any of its predecessors. 
I am, dear Sir, your obedient servant, 
Robert Hampton - . 
Manchester, June 20, 1870. 
Sir,—Entirely agreeing with your article on the “ Age ot 
Progress,” I beg leave to offer a few remarks upon the cause 
which, in my opinion, has elected a Council not well chosen 
to carry on the important duties of the Society. 
Being one of the founders I speak with some experience, 
and although I have never taken an active part in its affairs, 
I have been ever ready to uphold the Council and strengthen 
their hands, whenever I have considered them unjustly at¬ 
tacked, as may be seen by reference to Yol. IV., First Series, 
p. 97, in a letter signed “A Town Member,” and also in 
Yol. X., First Series, p. 210. 
I believe that the Boards, as constituted from year to year, 
have done good service to the whole body of chemists, and 
that they have fairly earned our best thanks for the manner 
in which they have advanced our interest, in the broadest 
sense of the word; and therefore it was with the deepest pain 
I found the Council engaged, in the past year, in propound- 
ing a system of conducting business, as touching poisons, so 
extremely offensive, that I do not wonder it brought down a 
storm of indignation at the last annual meeting, which had 
