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EDITORIAL  DEPARTMENT. 
The  Meeting  of  Pharmacists  on  the  Pacific  Coast. — When  the  American  Phar- 
maceutical Association,  at  its  meeting  in  Detroit,  resolved  to  meet  this  year 
in  San  Francisco,  a  committee  was  appointed  to  select  a  suitable  date  and 
to  make  the  necessary  traveling  arrangements.  About  the  middle  of  Jan- 
uary the  committee  announced  July  15th  next  as  the  date  for  the  beginning 
of  the  meeting;  but  subsequently  reconsidered  this  action,  and  fixed  upon 
Monday,  June  24th,  for  convening  the  meeting.  It  must  be  expected  that 
the  convenience  of  every  member  could  not  be  secured  by  the  selection  of 
any  date;  but  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  day,  now  finally  agreed  upon,  will 
suit  a  very  large  number  of  those  intending  to  be  present,  and  that  those 
who  for  various  reasons  would  have  preferred  a  later  date  will  use  their  best 
endeavors  to  make  their  convenience  suit  the  date. 
In  a  short  time  the  committee  will  announce  particulars  as  to  the  travel- 
ing arrangements  made  for  the  accommodation  of  the  members  and  their 
friends. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Angewandte  Pflanzenanatomie. — Ein  Handbuch  zum  Studium  des  anatom- 
ischen  Baues  der  in  der  Pharmacie,  den  Gewerben,  der  Landwirthschaft  and 
demHaushaltebenutzten'pflanzlichenRohstoffe.  ErsterBand.  Allgemeiner 
Theil.  Grundriss  der  Anatomie.  Von  Dr.  A.  Tschirch,  Docenten  der 
Botanik  an  der  Universitat  Berlin.  Wien  und  Leipzig  :  Urban  «fc  Schwar- 
zenberg,  1889.    Large  8vo.,  pages  xii.  and  548. 
Applied  vegetable  anatomy.  A  hand  book  for  the  study  of  the  anatomi- 
cal structure  of  the  vegetable  raw  material  used  in  pharmacy,  the  arts,  in 
agriculture  and  in  the  household.  First  volume.  General  part.  Outlines  of 
anatomy. 
In  our  volume  for  1885  (page  637)  we  noticed  Professor  Fluckiger's  "  Prin- 
ciples of  Pharmacognosy,"  and  in  that  for  1887  (page  219)  a  translation  by 
Professor  Power  of  the  same  work,  for  the  second  edition  of  which  the  part 
relating  to  the  morphology  and  anatomy  had  been  especially  prepared  by 
the  author  of  the  volume  now  before  us.  While  the  former  work  was 
written  with  the  special  view  of  its  application  to  drugs,  the  field  of  the 
present  one  is  much  larger,  as  indicated  in  the  title,  though  the  aim  of  the 
two  works,  in  relation  to  anatomy,  is  substantially  alike,  except  that  the 
present  one  enters  more  into  the  details  of  the  rich  results  of  the  researches 
by  numerous  scientists.  The  work  is  not  intended  as  a  text-book  for  the 
study  of  vegetable  anatomy  as  such  ;  but  it  aims  at  imparting  the  theoreti- 
cal knowledge  required  for  the  successful  practical  application  of  the 
microscope  to  the  investigation  of  vegetable  substances  for  other  than 
strictly  botanical  purposes.  This  object  has  been  faithfully  kept  in  view  in 
restricting  as  much  as  possible  the  discussion  of  subjects,  which  are  of  im- 
portance to  the  botanist,  but  have  little  significance  for  practical  application  ; 
and  in  extending  the  descriptions  of  anatomical  elements  of  practical  im- 
portance considerably  beyond  the  necessities  of  the  botanist.  This  practi- 
cal object  resting  upon  the  broad  basis  of  science  is  also  noticeable  in  the 
