540  Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notices.  {Am'ocT,rimarm' 
EDITORIAL  DEPARTMENT. 
Delegates  to  the  Pharmacopoeia!  Convention. — President  Charles  Bullock  has 
appointed  the  following  delegates  from  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
to  the  Decennial  Convention  for  the  Revision  of  theU.  S.  Pharmacopoeia,  which 
will  convene  in  Washington,  D.  C,  in  May  next :  Alfred  B.  Taylor,  Ph.  M., 
Professor  John  M.  Maisch  and  Professor  Joseph  P.  Remington. 
President  Emlen  Painter,  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  has 
made  the  following  appointments  for  the  same  Convention  :  Delegates,  Edward 
R.  Squibb,  M.  T).,  Brooklyn:  Albert  E.  Ebert,  Ph.  G.,  Chicago,  and  Charles  Mohr, 
Ph.D.,  Mobile.  Alternates,  Alfred  B.  Taylor,  Ph.  G.,  Philadelphia;  Carl  S.  N. 
Hallberg,  Ph.  G.,  Chicago,  and  Maurice  W.  Alexander,  Ph.  G.,  St.  Louis. 
International  Medical  Congress. — When,  in  1887,  the  Ninth  International  Med- 
ical Congress  was  held  in  Washington,  the  city  of  Berlin  was  selected  for  hold- 
ing the  Tenth  Congress.  Notice  has  recently  been  given,  over  the  signatures  of 
Von  Bergmann,  Virchow  and  Waldeyer,  that  the  Congress  will  convene  August 
4th,  and  close  August  9th,  1890. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Twenty  fifth  Annual  Report  of  the  Alumni  Association,  with  the  exercises  of  the 
63rd  Commencement  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharinacv  for  the  vear 
1888-89.    8vo.    Pp.  256. 
The  publication  contains  the  minutes  of  the  Executive  Board,  of  the  social 
meetings  and  of  the  annual  meeting;  and  accounts  of  the  reception  to  the 
graduates,  of  the  beginning  of  the  course  and  of  the  commencement  exercises, 
followed  by  obituary  notices,  and  lists  of  active  members,  of  the  graduating 
class,  &c.  The  pamphlet  may  be  obtained  from  the  secretary  of  the  Alumni 
Association,  Wm.  E  Krewson,  Ph.  G- 
Pharmacographia  Indica.  A  history  of  the  principal  drugs  of  vegetable  origin 
met  with  in  British  India.  By  William  Dimock,  Brigade  Surgeon,  Bombay 
Army,  Principal  Medical  Storekeeper  to  Government;  C.  J.  H.  Warden, 
Surgeon-Major  Bengal  Army,  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  the  Calcutta  Medical 
College,  and  David  Hooper,  Quinologist  to  the  Government  of  Madras, 
Outacamund.    London :  Triibner  &  Co.    1889.    8vo.  Pp.304. 
Each  one  of  the  three  authors  is  well  known  as  a  writer  on  East  Indian 
Materia  Medica,  and  would  seem  to  be  competent  to  write  a  graphical  history 
of  the  medicinal  plants  of  India  ;  the  three  authors,  by  joint  labor,  it  may  be 
expected,  will  produce  a  work  thorough  and  reliable  in  every  way,  and  fully  up 
to  the  requirements  of  science  of  the  present  day.  Part  I  of  the  work  now 
before  us  comprises  only  the  medicinal  plants  of  a  portion  of  the  polypetalous 
orders  of  dicotyledons,  commencing  with  the  Ranunculaceae  and  closing  with 
the  Simarubeas  and  some  of  the  Burseraceae.  Each  article,  as  nearly  as  may  be, 
is  treated  of  under  the  following  heads:  Figures  (giving  some  of  the  works 
containing  illustrations  of  the  plant);  Habitat;  Vernacular;  History  and 
Uses ;  Description ;  Chemical  Composition ;  Commerce.  It  is  scarcely  neces- 
sary to  state  that  the  literature  on  each  subject  has  been  fully  made  use  of,  and 
that  the  authors'  intimate  familiarity  with  the  drugs  has  enabled  them  to  give 
