^Aug°rt"  issT'l  MitorlaL— Reviews,  etc.  431 
with  the  new  substance  were  being  made.  Nothing  more  has  since  been 
learned  of  the  compound,  or  the  process  by  which  it  was  obtained. 
Cinchonas  in  Guatemala.— We  learn  from  the  daily  papers  that  tlie 
Guatemalan  government  has  paid  Sarg  Brothers,  English  planters  in  the 
Goban  district,  a  premium  of  $1,500  for  the  successful  acclimatization  of 
J2,500  cinchona  plants  from  Peru. 
Professor  J.  E.  De  Vrij,  the  celebrated  Dutch  quinologist,  obtained 
his  diploma  in  pharmacy  June  6,  1832.  On  the  semi-centennial  anniver- 
sary thereof  he  received  from  the  King  of  Holland  the  order  of  Knight  of 
the  Dutch  Lion,  and  was  presented,  in  the  name  of  the  pharmacists  of  the 
Netherlands,  with  a  silver  statue  of  Hippocrates,  placed  upon  a  marble 
base,  to  wliich  was  attached  a  medal  representing  the  goddess  Tnsulinda 
leaning  against  a  red  cinchona  tree ;  this  was  accompanied  by  a  costly 
album,  containing  an  address  and  the  signatures  of  322  pharmacists  of  the 
Netherlands. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
:Proceedings  of  the  Indiana  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  the  Meetings 
held  in  the  Masonic  Temple,  Indianapolis,  May  9  and  10,  1882,  etc.  Svo, 
pp.  58. 
A  report  of  the  meeting  will  be  found  on  p.  326  of  our  June  number. 
JEighteenth  Annual  Report  of  the  Alumni  Association  for  the  Year  1881-82, 
with  the  Exercises  of  the  Sixty-first  Annual  Comniencement  of  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.    8vo,  pp.  141. 
As  usual,  this  report  contains  the  introductory  and  valedictory  addresses, 
and  minutes  of  the  business  and  social  meetings  of  the  association,  the 
proceedings  of  tlie  latter  being  reported  in  full  by  a  stenographer.  The 
l)amphlet  may  be  obtained  from  the  Secretary,  Wni.  E.  Krewson,  Ph.G. 
Practical  Medical  Anatomy.  By  Ambrose  L.  Ranney,  A.M.,  M.D.,  Ad- 
junct Professor  of  Anatomy  in  the  Medical  Department  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  the  City  of  New  York,  etc.  New  York  :  Wm.  Wood  &  Co.,  1882. 
8vo,  pp.  339. 
This  volume,  which  forms  the  sixth  of  the  present  series  of  Wood's  Li- 
brary of  Standard  Medical  Authors,  is  designed  to  be  a  guide  to  the  phy- 
sician in  the  study  of  the  relations  of  the  viscera  to  each  other  in  health 
and  disease,  and  in  the  diagnosis  of  the  medical  and  surgical  condition  of 
the  anatomical  structures  of  the  head  and  trunk.  It  contains  over  155 
-woodcuts. 
The  DrufjffisVs  Annual  for  1882.    C()m[)iled  by  H.  i\.  Adam.    New  York: 
Root  &  Tinker.    8vo,  pp.  151.^ 
Intended  as  a  book  of  reference,  this  volume  contains  a  largo  amount  of 
information,  valuable  to  the  wholesale  dealer,  but  also  much  that  is  of 
