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EDITORIAL. 
Duffield  confounded  tellurium  with  thallium  ?  it  is  well  known  that  that 
element  acts  in  the  way  suggested. 
Anniversary  Oration  delivered  before  the  Medical  Society  of  the  District 
of  Columbia,  September  26,  1866,  by  J.  M.  Toner,  M.  D.  Printed  by 
request  of  the  Society,  Washington,  D.  C,  1869  ;  pp.  80  octavo. 
This  is  a  valuable  contribution  to  the  local  medical  history  of  the  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia,  embracing  many  facts  bearing  on  its  early  physicians, 
the  origin  of  its  medical  schools,  societies  and  hospitals,  and  especially 
in  regard  to  the  hospital  system  arising  out  of  the  late  war,  and  the  Army 
Medical  Museum.  Much  that  is  in  it  will  prove  useful  to  the  future 
medical  historian.  Allusion  is  made  to  the  several  pharmacopoeia  con- 
ventions since  1820,  but  we  have  not  been  able  to  find  any  allusion  to  the 
Pharmaceutical  Association  of  the  District,  or  to  the  meeting  of  the 
Amer.  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  Washington  in  1858.  Though  not 
strictly  medical  institutions,  they  might  well  have  received  a  passing 
notice,  in  an  address  embracing  so  many  topics,  without  detracting  from 
its  merits  as  a  contribution  to  the  medical  history  of  the  Capital. 
Quarterly  Summary  of  the  transactions  of  the  College  of  Physicians  of 
Philadelphia,  from  Dec.  5,  1866,  to  Dec.  2,  1868,  inclusive  ;  pp.  48, 
octavo. 
This  is  a  small  contribution  (23  pages)  from  so  eminent  a  body,  as  the 
result  of  two  years  "  transactions,"  more  than  half  of  its  pages  being  de- 
voted to  memoirs  of  its  late  members,  Dr.  T.  E.  Beasley  and  Dr.  Francis 
West,  prepared  at  the  request  of  the  College,  by  Dr.  E.  Littell.  These 
memoirs  are  carefully  prepared  and  present  truthful  portraitures  of  the 
subjects,  which  will  be  recognized  by  those  who  knew  them  as  physicians 
and  citizens  of  Philadelphia. 
American  Medical  Biography.  Dr.  Joseph  M.  Teuer,  of  Washington, 
D.  C,  has  issued  a  circular  to  the  medical  profession  requesting  informa- 
tion of  deceased  American  physicians,  with  a  view  to  the  preparation  of 
a  Biographical  Dictionary,  which  is  intended  to  embrace  a  notice  of  every 
deceased  practitioner  of  regular  medicine  from  the  earliest  history  of  this 
country.  All  who  have  information  of  a  reliable  character  should  send  in 
their  contributions  to  this  laudible  enterprise. 
Produits  Vegeteaux  du  Portugal  Consideres  au  point  de  vue  de  V alimen- 
tation et  de  Materie  Medicate,  par  J.  L.  Soubeiran^et  Aug.  Delondre. 
(Extracted  from  the  Bulletin  of  the  Imperial  Acclimatation  Society, 
for  1867).    Paris,  1867,  pp.  26. 
La  Matiere  Medicate  a  V exposition  de  1867,  par  J.  Leon  Soubeiran  et 
Augustin  Delondre.  (Extrait  de  Journal  de  Pharmacie).  Paris, 
1868,  pp.  39. 
De  V introduction  et  de  V acclimatation  des  Cinchonas  dans  les  Indes  Neer- 
