Am,  Jour.  Pharm. ") 
May,  1882.  / 
Reviews,  etc. 
Proceedings  of  the  California  PharmaceutiGal  Society  and  College  of  Phar- 
macy ;  Report  of  the  Thirteenth  Annual  Meeting,  held  at  San  Fran- 
cisco, January  12,  1882.    8vo,  pp.  117. 
Abstracts  of  most  of  the  papers  of  this  panaphlet  were  published  in  our 
last  number,  pp.  175  to  180. 
Proceedings  of  the  Third  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Missouri  State  Pharma- 
ceutical Association^  Kansas  City,  October  25,  1881.    Pp.  22. 
A  brief  account  of  the  meeting  was  published  on  page  634  of  our  last 
volume. 
Proceedings  of  the  Alabama  Pharmaceutical  Association,  First  Annual 
Session,  held  at  Birmingham,  Tuesday,  August  9,  1881. 
The  next  meeting  will  be  held  at  Mobile,  May  9.  The  President  of  the 
Association  is  P.  C.  Candidus,  of  Mobile;  Recording  Secretary,  S.  W.  Gil- 
lespie, of  Birmingham;  Local  Secretary,  Clias.  A.  Mohr,  of  Mobile. 
Proceedings  of  the  New  Hampshire  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  the 
Eighth  Annual  Meeting,  held  in  the  city  of  Concord,  October  11,  1881. 
Pp.  48. 
For  an  account  of  the  meeting  see  page  586  of  our  November  number, 
1881.    The  next  meeting  will  again  be  held  at  Concord. 
Twenty-fifth  Annual  Report  of  the  Council  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society 
of  Victoria,  1882.  Melbourne. 
In  addition  to  a  condensed  statement  of  the  work  done  during  the  year, 
the  pamphlet  contains  also  a  list  of  the  members  and  honorary  members 
of  the  Society. 
The  Pharmaceutical  Register  of  Victoria  for  1881.  Melbourne. 
The  pharmacy  act  was  passed  in  1876.  There  are  about  700  pharmaceu- 
tical chemists  on  the  register  at  the  present  time. 
An  Ephemeris  of  Materia  Medica,  Pharmacy,  Therapeutics  and  Collateral 
Information.  By  Edward  R.  Squibb,  M.D. ;  Edward  H.  Squibb,  S.B., 
M.D.,  and  Charles  F.  Squibb,  A.B.    Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
This  is  a  periodical  intended  to  be  issued  from  time  to  time  with  the 
object  of  noting  down  the  results  of  a  long  experience  and  observation, 
and  the  deductions  therefrom,  together  with  occasional  original  work. 
American  medicine  and  pharmacy,  as  well  as  science  in  general,  may  be 
congratulated  that  Dr.  Squibb,  aided  now  by  his  two  sons,  will  publish 
such  results  as  indicated.  Thus  far  two  numbers  of  the  "Ephemeris" 
have  been  publislied,  and  the  papers  contained  therein  are  written  in  the 
exhaustive  style  which  characterizes  nearly  all  his  contributions  to  sci- 
ence. Perhaps  the  most  important  paper  is  the  one  on  tlie  morphine 
strength  of  opium,  in  which  the  author  shows  the  quality  of  commercial 
