52  Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notices.    {Am /a0nuym9arm' 
the  Franklin  Institute,  at  Philadelphia,  fall  information  will  be  sent  respect- 
ing the  manner  of  making  application  for  the  investigation  of  inventions 
and  discoveries ;  furthermore,  the  Committee  on  Science  and  the  Arts  will 
receive  and  give  respectful  consideration  to  reports  upon  discoveries  and  in- 
ventions, which  may  be  sent  to  it  with  the  view  of  receiving  one  or  the 
other  of  the  awards  herein-named,  and  full  directions  as  to  the  manner  and 
form  in  which  such  communications  should  properly  be  made,  will  be  sent 
on  application. 
The  Universal  Exposition  of  1889  at  Paris,  France,  will  open  May  5th,  and 
close  October  31st ;  and  goods  for  exhibition  will  be  received  from  January 
1st  to  March  31st.  The  United  States  Commission,  having  its  home  office 
at  No.  1  Broadway,  New  York,  and  its  Paris  office  at  No.  27  Avenue  de  la 
Bourdonnais,  will  forward  free  of  freight  between  New  York  and  the  Expo- 
sition, going  and  returning,  all  articles  received  for  exhibit. 
The  classes  in  which  pharmacists  and  druggists  are  specially  interested 
are  in  group  II. :  8.  Organization,  methods  and  appliances  for  higher  in- 
struction ;  12.  photographic  proofs  and  apparatus ;  14.  medicine  and  sur- 
gery; veterinary  and  comparative  medicine  ;  15.  instruments  of  precision. 
In  group  III. :  28.  perfumery.  In  group  V. :  45.  chemical  and  pharmaceu- 
tical products ;  46.  chemical  methods  of  bleaching,  dyeing,  printing  and 
finishing.  In  group  VI. :  51.  apparatus  used  in  chemistry,  pharmacy  and 
tanning.  In  group  VII.  :  67.  cereals ;  farinaceous  products  with  their  de- 
rivatives. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Several  important  works  remain  upon  the  Editor's  table,  for  the  review  of 
which  we  hope  to  make  room  in  our  next  issue.  The  following  reports,  es- 
says and  periodical  publications  have  been  received : 
The  Physician's  Visiting  List  (Lindsay  &  Blakiston's)  for  1889.  Philadelphia  : 
P.  Blakiston,  Son  &  Co. 
The  one  before  us  is  the  thirty-eighth  annual  issue. 
Methods  of  Analysis  of  Commercial  Fertilizers,  Cattle  Food,  Dairy  Products, 
Sugar  and  Fermented  Liquors;  adopted  at  the  fifth  annual  convention  of 
the  Association  of  Official  Agricultural  Chemists,  held  at  the  U.  S.  De- 
partment of  Agriculture,  August  9  and  10,  1888.    8  vo.,  pp.  96. 
This  is  Bulletin  No.  19,  Division  of  Chemistry. 
Vergleichung'der  wichtigsten  narkotischen  Extracte.  Inaugural-Dissertation  von 
Richard  Kordes. 
A  resume  of  Mr.  Kordes'  work  upon  the  narcotic  extracts  was  given  in 
our  last  volume  pp.  402,  452,  and  559.. 
