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Reviews. 
/Am.  Tour.  Pharm. 
\  November,  1897. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Missouri  Botanical  Garden.  Eighth  Annual  Report.  William 
Trelease,  Director.    St.  Louis,  Mo.    1897.    Pp.  236. 
The  Report  for  the  year  1896  contains  :  Report  of  the  Officers  of  the  Board  ; 
Eighth  Annual  Report  of  the  Director ;  Scientific  Papers ;  Library  Contri- 
butions. The  report  of  the  Director  is  always  interesting,  but  this  year  it  is 
made  additionally  so  by  short  accounts  of  the  disastrous  storms  which  visited 
the  Gardens  on  May  21st  and  27th  ;  the  former  being  especially  destructive  on 
account  of  the  accompan}'ing  hail,  and  the  latter  being  cyclonic  in  character. 
"  While  the  grounds  were  not  traversed  by  the  cyclonic  funnel,  but  were 
exposed  only  to  the  strong  northwest  gale  which  accompauied  it,  the  violence 
of  the  wind  was  such  that  a  number  of  the  structures  on  the  grounds  were 
either  unroofed  or  totally  wrecked,  while  some  450  trees,  many  of  them  of 
large  size,  were  wholly  or  practically  destroyed,  and  a  large  percentage  of  those 
left  standing  were  seriously  broken.  A  more  graphic  view  of  the  destruction  of 
the  trees  may  be  obtained  from  the  statement  that  186  cords  of  firewood  have 
been  prepared  from  the  more  workable  trunks  and  larger  branches  of  the  trees 
removed."  It  was  found  necessary  to  expend  over  $4,000  in  such  storm  repairs 
as  could  be  made,  and  the  loss  in  specimen  plants  cannot  be  expressed  in 
money. 
The  herbarium,  during  the  period  of  time  covered  by  this  report,  has 
increased  from  159,046  unmounted  specimens  to  258,629  mounted  specimens, 
protected  by  impregnation  with  corrosive  sublimate. 
The  scientific  papers,  which  occupy  the  bulk  of  the  volume  are:  "The 
Mosses  of  the  Azores,"  by  J.  Cordot ;  "  On  Some  Mosses  Collected  in  Madeira," 
by  William  Trelease;  "Botanical  Observations  on  the  Azores,"  by  William 
Trelease.  The  last  is  very  interesting,  includes  a  catalogue  of  the  plants 
occurring  in  the  Azores,  and  is  illustrated  by  fifty-five  full-page  plates.  The 
other  portions  of  the  book  are  beautifully  illustrated. 
Proceedings  of  the  Nineteenth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Missouri 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  June  8-12,  1897. 
This  is  one  of  the  first  reports  of  this  year's  State  meetings  to  reach  us.  It 
contains  a  number  of  good  original  papers,  among  them  one  by  G.H.  Charles 
Klie,  on  "A  So-called  Tasteless  Quinine."  He  has  done  considerable  work  in 
exposing  the  fraud  of  the  substitution  of  calcium  sulphate  for  quinine  sulphate, 
under  the  name  of  "Flora-China."  This  substance  was  first  shown  at  the 
Montreal  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  in  1896 ;  but 
notwithstanding  the  publicity  given  to  it  there,  it  has  continued  to  flourish  in 
the  Southern  States.  Mr.  Klie  traced  its  origin  to  Hankins  Mook  Company, 
Live  Oak,  Fla. 
Annual  Report  of  the  Clerk  of  Forestry  for  the  Province  of 
Ontario,  1897.    Thomas  South  worth,  Clerk. 
The  following  are  the  chief  subjects  discussed  in  this  interesting  volume  : 
"  The  Crown  Lands  Forestry  Problem  ;  "  "  Forestry  on  the  Farm  ;  "  "  Nature 
Study  in  the  School;"  "Entomology;"  "The  Manufacture  of  Wood  Char- 
coal." 
