Am-s^-1f8117arin-}    Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notices.  479 
E.  S.  Wood ;  on  milk  by  Drs.  C.  Harrington,  B.  F.  Davenport  and  C.  A. 
Goessmann ;  and  on  food  and  drugs,  by  Dr.  B.  F.  Davenport. 
Massachusetts  State  Agricultural  Experiment  Station. — Bulletins  No.  25*and  26, 
July  and  August,  1887. 
These  reports  are  prepared  by  the  Director,  Prof.  C.  A.  Goessmann,  Am- 
herst, Mass. 
Bericht  der  Wetter auischen  Gesellschaft  filer  die  Gesammte  Naturkunde  zu  Hanau, 
1885-1887,  erstattet  von  dem  Director  derselben  Fr.  Becker,  Realschul- 
Director.    Hanau  1887.    Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei.    8vo,  pp.  169. 
Eeport  of  the  Wetteravian  Society  for  the  Natural  Sciences. 
Besides  the  report  on  the  affairs  of  the  Society,  the  pamphlet  contains 
an  obituary  of  the  late  Prof.  Dr.  C.  Fliedner,  and  a  catalogue  of  the  plants 
growing  wild  and  cultivated  in  the  district  of  Rotenburg,  compiled  by  Dr. 
Eisenach,  from  collections  made  during  a  period  of  nearly  fifty  yeais. 
The  following  theses  from. the  Ecole  superieure  de  Pharmacie,  at  Mont- 
pellier,  have  been  received : 
"  De  l'eau  a  bord  par  Chas.  Dezeuze.  (Water  on  Shipboard.)  Pp.  54, 
with  a  plate  illustrating  Perroy's  still  and  filter. 
"  Du  coffre  a  medicaments  a  bord  des  batiments  de  guerre  et  de  com- 
merce ";  par  F.  X.  Daniel.  (Medicine  chests  for  men-of-war  and  merchant- 
men).   Pp.  48. 
"  Des  farines  employees  dans  la  Marine  au  port  de  Toulon ;  fabrication, 
achats  a  l'industrie,  conservation,  falsification,  alteration,  analyse";  par 
J.  Martinenq.  (On  flours  employed  in  the  marine  at  Toulon,  their  manu- 
facture, purchase,  conservation,  adulteration,  changes  and  analysis).  Pp.  90. 
"  Des  Anesthesiques     par  Henri  Valat.    (On  anaesthetics).   Pp.  62. 
"  D  l'acide  lactique  et  des  lactates  employes  en  pharmacie  ";  par  Jacques 
Rouzieres.    (Lactic  acid  and  lactates  employed  in  pharmacy).    Pp.  54. 
"  Des  contre-poisons";  par  J.  Ca-rles.    (On  counter-poisons).  Pp.64. 
"Dd'opium  des  fumeurs";  par  Rene  Pluchon.  (On  smokers' opium). 
Pp.66. 
"Etude  sur  le  mabit  et  le  quinquina  Piton";  par  Chas.  Arnaud.  (On  the 
mabit  (Colubrina  reclinata)  and  the  Piton  cinchona  (Exostemma  floribundum). 
Pp.  86,  with  a  plate  illustrating  the  anatomy  of  the  exostemma  bark. 
The  reception  of  the  following  pamphlets  is  hereby  acknowledged : 
•  Kinologische  studien ;  door  Dr.  J.  E.  De  Vrij.    (Quinological  studies).  Five 
numbers. 
Composition  du  beurre  naturel;  par  D.  A.  Van  Bastelaer.    (Composition  of 
natural  butter. 
