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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
The Chemist’s Desk-Companion for 1865.— The Year-Book of Pharmacy: a 
Practical Summary of Researches in Pharmacy, Materia Meclica, and Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Chemistry during the Year 1864. By Charles H. Wood and Charles 
Sharp. 
This little work, as stated in the Introduction, 44 is intended to furnish the pharma¬ 
ceutist with a concise abstract of all important papers hearing on Pharmacy which 
have appeared during the past year.” It is the first attempt at the establishment of 
a work of the sort in this country, although for many years similar publications have 
appeared in France, Germany, and America, and we have no doubt its appearance 
will be hailed with satisfaction by those who, being engaged in the practice of phar¬ 
macy, feel the want of a ready means of referring to a brief account of all new matter 
relating to their profession. The authors are known to many of our readers, one be¬ 
ing the Librarian to the Pharmaceutical Society, and the other late Demonstrator in 
the Laboratory and Secretary to the Chemical Discussion Association. They are well 
qualified for the task they have undertaken, and have well performed their task. The 
work, which consists of a pamphlet of 155 pages, gives a brief notice of the state, 
political and social, of pharmacy in this country during the past year; it then gives 
in a series of short articles the results of the communications which have been made 
in the different journals on Materia Medica, Pharmaceutical Chemisty, and Pharmacy, 
and these notices are followed by pharmaceutical formulae, and therapeutical notes 
and formulae. The whole is concisely yet clearly expressed, with full references to the 
sources from which the information is derived. It will be found to be a very useful, 
and at the same time inexpensive, appendage to the desk of the dispensing chemist. 
OBITUARY. 
On Wednesday, November 23rd, at 10, Parade, Tunbridge Wells, William Maddock, 
in his seventy-third year; one of the founders of the Pharmaceutical Society. 
BOOKS RECEIVED. 
The Half-Yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences. Edited by W. H. Ranking, 
M.D., etc., and C. B. Radcliffe, M.D., etc. Vol. LX., July-December, 1864. 
London : John Churchill and Sons, New Burlington Street. 1865. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Registered Apprentice (Bradford).—See Wood and Bache’s ‘ United States Dispensa¬ 
tory,’ p. 1443, and 4 American Journal of Pharmacy,’ vol. xxviii. p. 510. A paper will 
shortly appear on the subject by Professor Bentley in the Pharmaceutical Journal. 
J. 13. (Glasgow).—See 44 New American Remedies,” in the Pharmaceutical Journal, 
by Professor Bentley. New papers will shortly appear. 
S. J. F.—Methylic Alcohol. See Vol. V. (2nd series), page 369. 
C. Sf D .—The apparatus referred to would answer the purpose. 
S. P. (Darby).—We are unable to give the information required. 
J. II. W. (Blackheath). —In the prescription referred to, Potassce carbonas should be 
used. 
W. R. S. (Manchester).—If our correspondent means carbazotic acid , this has recently 
been tried in some cases where the use of quinine is indicated; but we understand that 
the property possessed by carbazotic acid, of colouring the skin, is some objection to its 
use. 
Instructions from Members and Associates respecting the transmission of the 
Journal before the 25th of the month, to Elias Bremridge, Secretary, 17, 
Bloomsbury Square, W.C. 
Advertisements (not later than the 23rd) to Messrs. Churchill, New Bur¬ 
lington Street. Other communications to the Editors, 17, Bloomsbury Square. 
