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<  Am.  Joiir.  Pharm. 
\    August,  18«2. 
value  to  the  pharmacist.  Statistical  tables  of  iiiiportatioii  and  exportation, 
average  prices  of  important. articles,  statistics  of  production  and  trade  of 
various  staple  products — all  these,  covering  several  years,  will  be  found  of 
much  interest,  as  will  also  the  list  of  duties  on  imported  goods,  the  average 
weight  or  size  of  original  packages,  etc.  Tables  referring  to  dispensing 
facilities  and  to  laboratory  work,  etc.,  will  be  found  useful  in  practice. 
The  list  of  pharmaceutical  associations  and  their  officers  is  quite  incom- 
plete. Nearly  one-half  of  the  book  consists  of  an  exposition  of  the  patents 
granted  in  the  drug,  chemical,  oil,  paint  and  allied  trades  in  1881. 
The  absence  of  an  index  interferes  with  the  ready  consulting  of  the  con- 
tents, for  which  no  systematic  arrangement  has  been  attempted. 
BreWs  Auckland  Almanac,  Provincial  Handbook  and  Strangers^  Vade 
Mecum  for  1882.    Auckland:  H.  Brett.    8vo,  pp.  176. 
An  interesting  book,  giving  a  vast  amount  of  information  on  agricul- 
ture, commerce  and  other  industries  of  Auckland,  New  Zealand  and  the 
other  Australasian  colonies  of  Great  Britain. 
Trrmsactions  of  the  Medical  Associatio7i  of  Georgia.  Thirty-second  An- 
nual Session,  1881.    Augusta,  Ga.    8vo,  pp.  314. 
This  volume  is  handsomely  gotten  up ;  the  types  are  large  and  clear,  the 
paper  and  printing  are  good,  and  the  various  reports  and  papers  are  of  gen- 
eral professional  interest.  About  one-fourth  of  the  volume  is  occupied 
with  mostly  brief  biographies  of  deceased  members,  those  of  Drs.  R.  Irvine 
and  Crawford  W.  Long  being  accompanied  by  portraits.  For  the  latter  is 
claimed  the  honor  of  having  discovered  the  anaesthetic  properties  of  ether, 
he  having  performed  surgical  operations  on  March  30,  and  June  6,  1842, 
while  the  patients  were  under  the  influence  of  this  ancesthetic. 
£!in  Gliom.    Von  Dr.  Heinrich  Tiedemann,  Philadelphia.    8vo,  pp.  16. 
A  glioma. — The  pamphlet  is  dedicated  to  Dr.  von  Bischoff,  of  Munich, 
on  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  his  doctorate. 
The  Metric  System  of  Weights  and  Measures,  adopteed  by  the  U.  S.  Marine 
Hospital  Service.    Ann  Arbor:  John  Moore.    24mo,  pp.  44. 
A  reprint  of  the  tables  prepared  four  or  five  years  ago  by  Prof.  Oldberg. 
Report  on  Ophthabnology ,  made  to  the  Medical  and  Chirurgical  Faculty  of 
Maryland,  April,  1882.  By  J.  J.  Chisolm,  M.D.,  Professor,  etc.  8vo, 
pp.  15. 
Thirty-ninth  Annual  Report  of  the  Managers  of  the  State  Lunatic  Asylum^ 
JJtica,  N.  Y.,for  the  year  1881.  Transmitted  to  the  Legislature  Jan.  13, 
1882.    8vo,  pp.  42. 
Fourteenth  Annual  Report  of  the  President  of  the  Inebriates^  Home,  Fort 
Hamilton,  N.  Y.,  for  the  Year  1881.  Also,  a  Statistical  Report  of  Six 
Hundred  Cases  of  Alcoholic  Inebriety  Treated  at  the  Home  from  Nov. 
1,  1879,  to  Jan.  1,  1881.  By  Lewis  D.  Mason,  M.D.,  Consulting  Physi- 
cian.   8vo,  pp.  27. 
