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Summer  Courses  in  Colleges  of  Pharmacy. — The  California  College  of  Phar- 
macy gives  its  regular  course  of  instruction  always  during  the  summer 
months,  the  next  commencing  April  4th.  In  the  Universities  of  Michigan 
and  Wisconsin  the  instruction  in  pharmacy  is  continued  for  several  months 
after  the  regular  courses  of  lectures  have  terminated  in  the  other  col- 
leges. But  the  Chicago  College  of  Pharmacy,  as  well  as  the  Illinois  College 
of  Pharmacy,  have  made  arrangements  for  two  sessions  annually,  one 
during  the  winter,  and  the  second  during  the  spring,  terminating  early  in 
summer.  In  most  of  the  remaining  colleges  of  pharmacy  auxiliary  courses, 
which  are  not  obligatory,  are  carried  on  outside  of  the  regular  sessions. 
Thus  at  the  Philadelphia  College  the  chemical  laboratory  will  be  open 
during  the  greater  part  of  the  year,  and  the  course  in  practical  botany,  in- 
augurated twenty  years  ago,  will  again  be  continued  during  the  coming 
summer,  the  organization  of  the  botany  class  taking  place  on  April  13,  at  4 
P.  M. 
REVIEWS  AKD  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Yearbook  of  Pharmacy,  comprising  abstracts  of  papers  relating  to  pharmacy, 
materia  medica  and  chemistry,  contributed  to  British  and  foreign  jour- 
nals from  July  1st,  1885,  to  June  30,  1886.  With  the  Transactions  of  the 
British  Pharmaceutical  Conference  at  the  twenty-third  annual  meeting 
held  at  Birmingham,  September,  1886.  London  :  J.  &  A.  Churchill.  8vo, 
pp.  606. 
This  welcome  annual  was  received  in  February.  A  little  more  than  one- 
half  of  it  (346  pages)  comprises  the  yearbook,  which  is  designed  to  be  a  col- 
lection of  abstracts  of  papers  having  pharmaceutical  interest,  and  which 
were  published  during  the  preceding  year ;  it  covers  the  same  ground  as  the 
Report  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association.  Nearly  200  pages  are  required  for  the  minutes 
of  the  Conference  and  for  the  papers  read  at  its  last  annual  meeting.  Like 
its  predecessors  the  volume  is  quite  valuable  as  an  epitome  of  the  pharma- 
ceutical work  done  during  the  year. 
The  Principles  of  Pharmacognosy,  an  Introduction  to  the  Study  of  the  Crude 
Substances  of  the  Vegetable  Kingdom.  By  Friedrich  A.  Fliickiger,  Ph.D., 
M.D.,  Professor  in  the  University  at  Strassburg,  and  Alexander  Tschirch, 
Ph.D.,  Lecturer  on  Botany  and  Pharmacognosy  in  the  University  of  Ber- 
lin. Translated  from  the  second  and  completely  revised  German  edition 
by  Frederick  B.  Power,  Ph.D.,  Professor  of  Materia  Medica  and  Pharmacy 
in  the  University  of  Wisconsin.  William  Wood  &  Co.,  New  York,  1887. 
8  vo,  pp.  310.    Price,  $3. 
Some  time  ago  we  announced  that  Professor  Power  was  engaged  in  pre- 
paring a  translation  of  Fliickiger  and  Tschirch's  "  Grundlagen  der  Pharma- 
cognosies and  we  are  pleased  to  announce  now  that  the  English  version  of 
this  valuable  work  is  before  us.  Having  previously  spoken  in  detail  of  the 
scope,  arrangement  and  execution  of  the  work,  it  remains  now  mainly  to 
state,  that  the  translation  has  been  well  done,  and  while  the  original  text  is 
•closely  followed,  the  English  rendition  does  not  suffer  in  clearness  and  pre- 
cision.   We  may,  therefore,  in  regard  to  the  work  before  us  repeat  what  we 
