96 
Revieim,  etc. 
i  Am.. Tour.  Pharm. 
\       Feb.,  1882. 
Illustrations  of  dissections  in  a  series  of  original  colored  plates  represent- 
ing the  dissections  of  the  human  body.  By  Geo.  Viner  Ellis,  Professor 
of  Anatomy  in  University  College,  London,  and  G.  H.  Ford,  Esq. 
Vol.1.  Second  edition.  New  York  :  Wni.  Wood  &  Co.,  1882.  8vo,  pp. 
233. 
The  first  issue  of  the  present  year's  series  of  Wood's  Ijibrary  of  Standard 
Medical  Authors  is  a  volume  containing  28  plates  of  dissections  which 
were  originally  executed  of  life  size  and  published  in  folio,  but  have  been 
reduced  on  a  uniform  scale  and  reproduced  in  facsimile  exj^ressly  for  this 
edition.  The  volume  illustrates  the  dissections  of  the  upper  limb,  the 
head  and  neck,  and  the  figures  have  been  drawn  from  actual  dissections, 
and  printed  in  colors  with  the  object  of  making  them  as  true  pictures  as 
possible  of  nature,  and  more  serviceable  as  copies  for  the  student  to  imitate. 
The  part  of  the  human  body  to  be  illustrated  is  divided  into  suitable  stages 
or  regions,  and  the  muscles,  blood  vessels  and  nerves  of  each  region  are 
shown  in  layers  in  the  natural  order  of  succession,  so  that  their  mutual 
connections  may  be  brought  before  the  eye  at  one  and  the  same  time. 
The  plates  are  handsomely  executed  and  the  accompanying  text  has  been 
written  with  the  view  of  its  practical  usefulness  to  the  anatomist  and  sur- 
geon. 
Proceedings  of  the  North  Carolina.  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  its 
second  annual  meeting  held  at  Neiuhern,  August  9  and  10, 1881.  Monroe, 
N.  C.  :  1881.    8vo,  pp.  (U. 
The  officers  for  the  current  year  are  S.  J.  Hinsdale,  Fayetteville,  presi- 
dent;  Wm.  Simpson,  Raleigh,  E.  H.  Meadow^s,  Newbern,  and  V.  A. 
Thompson,  Winston,  Vice-presidents;  T.  C.  Smith,  Charlotte,  Secretary; 
S.  H.  Smith,  Winston,  Local  Secretary,  and  J.  S.  Pescud,  Raleigh,  Treas- 
urer. 
Papers  were  read  by  S.  J.  Hinsdale  on  various  tests ;  by  E.  V.  Zoeller  on 
the  metric  system ;  by  J.  A.  Sheets,  on  syrup  of  ferrous  iodide,  and  by  E. 
V.  Zoeller  on  syrups  and  emulsions.  The  next  annual  meeting"  will  be 
held  at  Winston,  on  the  second  Wednesday  of  August,  1882. 
Proceedings  of  the  second  annual  meeting  of  the  Illinois  Pharmaceidical 
Association,  held  at  Peoria,  Oct.  18  and  19,  1881.  Chicago :  1882.  8vo, 
pp.  63. 
An  account  of  this  meeting  will  be  found  on  page  586  of  our  last  volume. 
The  pamphlet  contains  the  portrait  of  Mr.  W.  W.  Marmon,  the  first  pre- 
sident of  the  association. 
An  apparatus  for  the  rapid  analysis  of  mixtures  of  gases.    By  Arthur  H. 
Elliott,  New  York.  . 
Reprinted  from  the  School  of  Mines  Quarterly,  November,  1881. 
Report  of  the  Bureau  of  General  Sanitary  Science,  Climatology  and 
Hygiene,  to  the  American  Institute  of  Homoeopathy.  Session  of  1881. 
Pittsburgh.  8vo,pp.  117. 
Reprint  from  the  transactions. 
