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ided into various parts: synonyms, properties, specific character, 
comparative character, preservation, action, indications. 
Toxicology is divided into two parts:—The first includes 
definitions, an interesting historic, legislative classification of 
poisons and preliminary tests. 
The second part, or special toxicology, is a most complete 
study of the various poisons. The author does not only tell 
how to look for them, but exposes their action on the organism, 
symptoms, character of autopsies, etc. However, the enumera¬ 
tion of the chapters of each subject will show the toxicological 
study of each one : generalities, modes of absorption, toxic doses, 
absorption, circulation, elimination, symptoms, lesions, prog¬ 
nosis, treatment, etc. Some poisons of special importance are 
the object of extensive consideration, such as prussic acid and 
compounds, phosphorus, atropine, strychnia, copper, lead, mer¬ 
cury, arsenic, antimony, carbon dioxide. 
Altogether, this book, written in a clear and elegant style, 
neatly put up, contains, under a well arranged form, all the 
necessary notions of the two branches it treats of. 
COLLEGE COMMENCEMENTS. 
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION N. Y.-A. V. COLLEGE- 
The commencement exercises of this college will be held in 
conjunction with the Medical Department of New York Uni¬ 
versity at the Metropolitan Opera House, Broadway and For¬ 
tieth Street, New York, June 7, at 8 p. m. 
The banquet of the Alumni Association of the Veterinary 
Department of New York University (consisting of the alumnae 
of the American Veterinary College and the New York College 
of Veterinary Surgeons) will be held at the Hotel Marlborough, 
Broadway and Thirty-sixth Street, June 7, at 11 p. m. 
It is earnestly hoped that a large reunion of the alumnae of 
these two schools will attend, since the interests of their alma 
maters having been cemented, a closer acquaintance and friend¬ 
ship between individuals will undoubtedly prove a pleasant and 
profitable occasion. Those who expect to attend should at once 
notify Dr. H. D. Hanson, 160 Kldridge Street, or Dr. C. E. Clay¬ 
ton, 153 W. 54th Street, New York City. 
Dr. R. C. Moore has been appointed Assistant State Vet¬ 
erinarian for Kansas City. 
