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In  the  United  States  Professor  Bentley  is  known  as  a  teacher  mainly 
by  reputation ;  but  his  literary  labors  are  very  generally  known,  more 
particularly  his  excellent  "  Manual  of  Botany/'  and  the  voluminous 
work  on  "  Medicinal  Plants/7  which  he  issued  jointly  with  Prof.  Henry 
Trimen. 
The  Pennsylvania  Pharmacy  Bill  has  been  signed  by  Governor 
Beaver  May  24th,  We  have  not  been  able  to  procure  a  correct  copy 
of  the  new  law  in  time  for  publication  in  the  present  number  of  the 
Journal  ;  but  we  learn  that  the  clause,  which  as  stated  in  another 
place,  had  been  stricken  out  by  the  Senate,  requiring  physicians  desir- 
ing to  be  registered  as  pharmacists  without  examination,  to  have  had 
not  less  than  three  years  continuous  practice  in  pharmacy,  has  been 
restored  by  the  conference  committee  of  the  two  Houses.  Whilst  thus 
the  law  is  less  objectionable  than  it  had  been  made  by  the  Senate,  still 
the  fact  remains  that — as  far  as  we  know — no  other  state  and  no  other 
country  enjoys  a  pharmacy  law  totally  ignoring  pharmaceutical  educa- 
tion, and  declaring  as  superior  to  it,  for  the  purposes  of  practising 
pharmacy,  a  medical  education  supplemented  by  a  few  years  of  shop- 
experience.  Whether  Pennsylvania  has  reason  to  be  proud  of  this 
achievement,  is  a  question,  in  answering  which  no  argumentation  is 
needed. 
KEYIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Atlas  Manuel  de  V Histologie  des  Drogues  simples.  Par  J.  Godfrin,  Professeur 
a  l'Ecole  superieure  de  Pharmacie  de  Nancy,  et  Ch.  Noel,  Preparateur  a  la 
meme  Ecole.    Paris  :  Librairie  F.  Savy.    1887.  4to. 
Hand  atlas  of  the  histology  of  simple  drugs. 
This  atlas  consists  of  45  plates,  each  containing  representations  of  two 
or  more  drugs,  mostly  in  transverse  sections,  and  magnified  to  such  a  degree 
that  the  elements  of  each  tissue  may  be  seen  in  their  various  details.  The 
first  two  plates,  containing  the  starches  and  other  pulverulent  drugs,  are 
followed  by  nutgalls,  cryptogamous  drugs,  woods,  barks,  rhizomes,  roots, 
leaves,  flower-buds,  fruits  and  seeds.  The  figures  are  reproduced  partly 
from  drawings  and  partly  as  phototypes,  and  are  faithful  representations 
of  the  sections  as  seen  under  the  microscope.  Each  plate  is  accompanied 
by  brief  explanations  of  all  the  details  observed  in  each  figure. 
It  has  been  the  desire  of  the  authors  to  place  into  the  hands  of  pharma- 
cists, and  particularly  of  students,  a  practical  work  illustrating  the  anatom- 
ical structure  of  frequently-used  drugs,  and  serving  at  the  same  time  as  a 
manual  for  the  general  histology  of  materia  medica.    In  making  the  selec- 
