XembeVPS'}    Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  543 
The  present  book  is  intended  as  a  general  text  and  reference 
book  for  the  student  and  plant  producer.  In  the  discussion  of  each 
plant  disease  the  following  considerations  have  been  kept  in  view: 
(1)  to  describe  the  pathological  effects  and  other  relations  of  host 
and  parasite ;  (2)  to  make  clear  the  life  history  of  the  casual  fungus ; 
and  (3)  to  indicate  the  approved  or  suggested  methods  of  preven- 
tion or  control. 
The  illustrations  are  numerous  and  excellent.  There  is  also  a 
valuable  extensive  host  index  in  which  is  presented  in  a  succinct 
form  all  the  diseases  discussed  to  which  the  host  plants  are  subject. 
H.  K. 
PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  SEMI-ANNUAL  MEETING. 
The  semi-annual  meeting  of  the  College  was  held  September  26, 
at  4  p.m.,  in  the  Library.  Eighteen  members  were  present.  In  the 
absence  of  the  President,  Howard  B.  French,  who  was  in  the  far 
West,  the  Second  Vice-President,  Joseph  L.  Lemberger,  presided. 
The  minutes  of  the  quarterly  meeting  held  June  28  were  read  and 
approved.  The  minutes  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  June  were 
read  by  the  Registrar,  J.  S.  Beetem,  and  approved. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Nominations  was  read  and 
ordered  filed.  A  letter  was  read  from  Mr.  Samuel  C.  Henry,  who 
had  been  nominated  to  the  Board  of  Trustees,  thanking  the  Com- 
mittee for  the  nomination  and  expressing  his  appreciation  of  their 
action,  yet  requesting  the  members  present  to  vote  for  the  other 
nominees  who  had  previously  served  as  Trustees,  as  they  had  served 
the  College  faithfully  and  well. 
The  names  proposed  for  Honorary  Members  at  the  meeting  in 
June  and  laid  over  till  this  meeting  were  then  elected  as  Honorary 
Members,  as  follows :  Wilhelm  Ostwald,  formerly  Professor  of 
Chemistry  at  the  University  of  Leipzig,  Germany ;  Josef  Moeller, 
Professor  of  Pharmacology  and  Pharmacognosy  at  the  University 
of  Graz,  Germany ;  H.  Wefers  Bettink,  Director  of  the  Pharma- 
ceutical Institute  of  the  University  of  Utrecht,  Utrecht,  Holland ; 
C.  E.  Bessey,  Professor  of  Botany,  University  of  Nebraska,  Lincoln, 
Nebraska. 
Election  for  Trustees. — William  Mclntyre  and  William  E. 
