298  Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notices.     { Am'juOne"i904arm' 
"  Essais  sur  les  Chromites  de  la  Serie  Magnesienne,"  by  Abel- 
Auguste-Marie  Esnault.  An  essay  on  the  chromites  of  magnesium, 
manganese,  iron,  metal  and  cobalt.  H.  K. 
Proceedings  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  at 
the  fifty-first  annual  meeting  held  at  Mackinac  Island,  Mich.,  Au- 
gust, 1903.  Also  the  constitution,  by-laws  and  roll  of  members. 
Baltimore,  1 903. 
This,  the  fifty-first  annual  volume  of  the  proceedings  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  has  finally  been  distributed 
to  the  members.  It  contains  as  a  frontispiece  a  very  creditable  half- 
tone portrait  of  the  late  George  Washington  Kennedy,  who  for 
many  years  was  the  secretary  of  the  Council  of  the  American  Phar- 
maceutical Association,  and  was  also  the  secretary  of  the  committee 
of  the  Council  on  membership. 
While  this  volume  does  not  differ  materially  in  style  and  general 
make-up  from  any  of  the  volumes  that,  have  preceded  it  for  a 
decade  or  more,  it  nevertheless  fully  maintains  the  standard  that  has 
been  established  by  these  annual  volumes  for  the  variety  and  inter- 
esting nature  of  their  contents. 
This  particular  volume,  like  those  immediately  preceding,  is  rather 
a  ponderous  one,  containing,  as  it  does,  upward  of  1,100  pages  of 
printed  matter.  Of  these,  567  pages  are  devoted  to  the  minutes  of 
the  proceedings  at  the  Mackinac  meeting,  and  423  pages  are  taken 
up  by  the  report  on  the  progress  of  pharmacy.  The  whole  volume 
is  covered  by  an  index  that  takes  up  17  double-column  pages,  com- 
prising upwards  of  1,250  references. 
Altogether  it  may  be  said  that  this  latest  volume  of  the  proceed- 
ings constitutes  an  almost  inexhaustible  mine  of  pharmaceutical 
information,  and  that  it  is  practically  indispensable  to  the  pharma- 
cist that  wishes  to  keep  well  informed,  or  to  remain  in  touch  with 
the  progress  that  is  being  made  in  his  particular  line. 
Despite  the  many  excellent  features  that  are  embodied  by  these 
annual  volumes,  there  are  several  rather  serious  objections  that  can 
be  made  to  the  book  as  published  at  the  present  time.  The  first  of 
these  is  the  unnecessary  and  unusually  undue  delay  in  publication. 
This  is  a  fault  that  has  been  called  attention  to  repeatedly,  and  is 
one  that  should  be  remedied,  if  the  proceedings  are  to  be  of  the 
greatest  possible  interest  and  value  to  the  members  of  the  Associa- 
tion. 
