REVIEWS. 
677 
was in business as a Chemist and Druggist, and in the keeping of open shop for 
the compounding of the prescriptions of duly qualified Medical Practitioners 
before the day of ,186 
Signed 
SCHEDULE E. 
To the Registrar of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. 
We hereby declare that the undersigned , residing at ‘ , 
in the county of , had before the passing of the Pharmacy Act, 
1867, been employed as an Assistant to a Pharmaceutical Chemist or Chemist 
and Druggist, and attained the age of twenty-one years. 
As witness our hands, this day of , 186 . 
A. B., Assistant. 
C. D., Pharmaceutical Chemist. 
E. F., Chemist and Druggist. 
NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY’S CONVERSAZIONE, MONTREAL. 
We are glad to see that at the annual Conversazione of this Society, our valued friend 
Dr. J Baker Edwards delivered an address, illustrated by beautiful experiments, on 
“The Relations of Force.” Force he showed to be mechanical, chemical, electric, *tc.; 
and these to be generally associated in action in a series of cause and effect, as w 11 as 
convertible the one into the other. This, with the illustrations by means of scie ititic 
apparatus, was decidedly one of the most interesting portions of the evening’s pro¬ 
ceedings, and showed the complex and beautiful proportions of nature. The rad aiice 
of the sun, said he, is not simple light, but may be compared to the fragance fr nn a 
thousand flowers, or the harmony of an orchestra. It is itself one of the great harmo¬ 
nies of nature. It is radiant force. 
REVIEWS. 
Pharmazeutische Waarenkunde, von Dr. Otto Berg, Professor an der Universitat zu 
Berlin. Berlin, 1863. 8vo. pp. 684. 
Handbuch der Pharmacognosie, von Dr. A. Wiggers, Professor zu Gottingen. 5te 
Auflage. Gottingen, 1864. 8vo. pp. 779. 
Handbuch der Pharmacognosie des Pflanzen- und Thierreichs nach dem neuesten 
Standpunkt bearbeitet, von Prof. Dr. Henkel in Tubingen. Tubingen, 1867. 8vo. 
pp. 629. 
Lehrbuch der Pharmakognosie des Pflanzenreiches, Oder Naturgeschichte der 
wichtigern Arzneistoffe vegetabilischen Ursprunges, fiir Pharmaceuten, Mediciuer 
und Chemiker, von Dr. F. A. Fluckiger, Docent an der Universitat in Bern. Berlin, 
1867. 8vo. 1 Lieferung, pp. 128. 
Since the publication of Pereira’s ‘Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics,’ 
the 'ast volume of which completed by the author hears date 1850, no comprehensive 
work on the same subject has appeared in the English language. The last edition of 
that work is an abridgment, from which are omitted those drugs which find no place in 
the British Pharmacopoeia. This is a disadvantage to the student who has to gather 
from other authors the information he would possess regarding many of the substances 
with which, as a future druggist, he ought to become acquainted. The original edition 
of Pereira’s work was, however, by no means perfectly suited to the wants of the 
