568  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference.  {ANovembe?fi9oT' 
Gerard,  Professeur  agrege  a  la  faculte  de  Medecine  et  de  Pharmacie 
de  Lille,  Charge  du  cours  de  Pharmacie.  A.  Strock  et  Cie.  Im- 
primeurs-Editeurs,  Lyon  et  Paris. 
This  interesting  little  compendium  or  handbook  is  divided  into 
four  parts.  The  first  is  a  collection  of  tests  and  assay  methods  for 
medicines  of  animal  or  vegetable  origin.  The  second  part  comprises 
tests  for  galenical  preparations.  The  third  is  composed  of  qualita- 
tive and  quantitative  tests  for  inorganic  chemicals.  The  fourth, 
comprising  135  out  of  the  total  of  308  pages,  is  devoted  to  an 
enumeration  of  the  characteristics  of  and  tests  for  a  number  of  the 
chemical  substances  of  organic  origin.  In  this  part,  in  addition  to 
the  well-known  organic  chemicals  and  alkaloids,  we  find  tests  for 
such  chemicals  as  glycerophosphate  of  lime,  cacodylate  of  soda, 
and  also  a  number  of  the  more  popular  synthetic  chemicals  like 
phenacetine,  antipyrine  and  sulfonal. 
The  contents  and  style  of  the  book  should  recommend  it  par- 
ticularly to  the  French  student  of  pharmacy,  and  even  to  such  of 
our  American  students  as  are  familiar  with  the  French  language. 
M.  I.  W. 
BRITISH  PHARMACEUTICAL  CONFERENCE. 
The  thirty-ninth  annual  meeting  of  the  British  Pharmaceutical 
Conference  was  held  at  Dundee,  Scotland,  from  August  II  to  14, 
1902. 
The  following  abstracts  are  made  from  the  very  complete  reports 
of  the  papers  and  proceedings  as  published  in  the  current  numbers 
of  British  Pharmaceutical  journals. 
The  Address  of  Welcome  was  made  by  Principal  Mackay,  of  Uni- 
versity College,  Dundee,  who  said  that  the  welcome  that  he  had  to 
extend  to  the  delegates  referred  to  the  more  serious  and  important 
work  of  the  conference.  Medical  education  was  one  of  the  most 
important  branches  of  the  work  at  University  College,  and  the  work 
of  the  Pharmaceutical  Conference  was  one  that  went  forward  hand 
in  hand  with  that  of  the  medical  profession.  Because  the  Society 
and  College  had  m?ny  points  in  common,  the  members  of  the 
former  were  cordially  welcome  to  the  halls  of  the  College.  It  was 
earnestly  wished  that  the  conference  would  soon  again  return  to 
Dundee. 
