Am.  Jour.  Pliarui, ) 
Feb.,  1881.  ■  J 
Reviews,  etc. 
95 
for  making',  for  instance,  Madeira,  Malaga  and  otlier  wines  that  do  not  con- 
tain any  wine  at  all;  citrate  of  niagnesinni,  without  magnesia;  oil  of 
origanum  by  adding  linseed  oil  and  oil  of  turpentine,  etc.  In  the  nomen- 
I'lature  adopted,  the  author  is  exceedingly  inconsistent  and  also  faulty;  we 
give  a  few  examples  which  are  not  typographical  errors:  Potass,  chlo., 
Soda  chlo.,  Tinctura  black  root.  Gum  camphor,  Ex.  creosotonis,  etc. 
A  commendable  feature  of  the  work  is  to  be  found  in  the  formulas  for 
many  popular  nostrums  ;  whether  these  give  the  true  composition  or  are 
merely  imitations  we  have  neither  the  means  nor  the  inclination  to  deter- 
mine. We  understand  that  purchasers  of  the  book  will  receive  the  sup- 
plements, to  be  issued  quarterly,  free  of  charge  for  one  year. 
On  the  whole,  this  formulary  can  only  gain,  and  lose  nothing  whatever, 
by  a  careful  revision. 
Boeky  Mountain  Health  Resorts.   By  Chas.  Denison,  A.M.,  M.D.  Second 
edition.    Boston :  Houghton,  MitRm  &  Co.  1881.  Pp.192. 
The  author  is  evidently  favoral)ly  impressed  with  the  benefits  derived  by 
the  sufferers  from  chronic  pulmonary  disease  by  living  in  high  altitudes  ; 
but  this  inclination  does  not  appear  to  influence  his  analytical  study  of  the 
subject  matter,  since  to  those  unacquainted  with  the  localities,  a  candor  is 
evidenced  which  does  not  hide  the  drawbacks,  though  even  such  may 
serve  ta  explain  the  author's  love  for  the  picturesque  scenes  of  the  mighty 
mountainous  chain  in  the  western  part  of  this  continent.  Although  this 
volume  does  not  x^retend  to  give  descriptions  of  the  various  localities,  yet 
we  consider  the  information  imparted  by  it  as  particularly  opportune  for 
the  members  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  who,  after 
attending  the  next  meeting  at  Kansas  City  in  August  next,  expect  to  get  a 
glimpse  of  the  Rocky  Mountains.  Invalids  suffering  from  pulmonary 
complaints  will  find  in  the  volume  much  to  interest  them. 
Report  on  the  Culture  of  the  Sugar-beet  and  the  Manufacture  of  sugar 
therefrom  in  France  and  the  United  States.  Prei^arecl,  under  the  direc- 
tion of  Hon.  Wm.  G.  Le  Due,  Commissioner  of  Agriculture,  by  Wm. 
McMurtrie,  E.M.,  Ph.D.,  etc.  Washington:  Government  Pointing 
Office.    8vo,  pp.  294. 
An  interesting  and  important  volume,  published  at  a  time  when  the  cul- 
tivation of  the  beet  for  the  purpose  of  obtaining  sugar  is  attracting  so  much 
attention  in  the  United  States.  The  book  is  rendered  more  useful  by  the 
addition  of  a  number  of  maps,  and  of  illustrations  of  different  varieties  of 
beets  and  of  apparatus  and  machinery  adapted  to  the  manufacture  of  sugar. 
Handbuch  der  Botanik.  Von  Dr.  N.  J.  C.  Miiller.  II.  Band:  Allgemeine 
Botanik;  II.  Theil:  Allgemeine  Morphologic  und  Entwickelungslehre 
der  Gewachse.  Heidelberg :  Carl  Winter's  Universitatsbuchhandlung, 
1880.    8vo,  pp.  482. 
Hand-book  of  botany.  Vol.  II :  General  Botany ;  Part  II :  General  mor- 
phology and  development  of  plants. 
The  first  volume  of  this  work  was  noticed  on  page  586  of  our  last  volume ; 
for  the  one  now  before  us  we  repeat  what  we  then  said  of  the  former,  that 
