Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  i 
January.  1907.  J 
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reproduces  itself  and  lives  with  even  little  to  favor  it,  very  much  the 
same  as  it  exists  in  its  native  regions  ;  and  having  also  seen  it  under 
cultivation  myself,  there  is  no  doubt  in  my  mind  that  it  is  possible 
to  grow  licorice  root  in  the  United  States  with  entire  success. 
Philadelphia.  Daniel  S.  Rittenhouse. 
BOOK  REVIEWS. 
Second  Report  of  the  Wellcome  Research  Laboratories  at 
the  Gordon  Memorial  College,  Khartoum.  By  Andrew  Balfour, 
Director,  Department  of  Education,  Sudan  Government,  Khartoum, 
1906. 
As  this  is  the  first  of  the  reports  which  have  been  received  for 
review  in  this  Journal  it  may  be  desirable  to  call  attention  to  the 
functions  of  the  Wellcome  Research  Laboratories  at  the  Gordon 
Memorial  College,  Khartoum.  These  are  (a)  To  promote  technical 
education,  (b)  To  promote  the  study,  bacteriologically  and  physio- 
logically, of  tropical  disorders,  especially  the  infective  diseases  of 
both  man  and  beast  peculiar  to  the  Sudan,  and  to  render  assistance 
to  the  officers  of  health,  and  to  the  clinics  of  the  civil  and  military 
hospitals.  (c)  To  aid  experimental  investigations  in  poisoning  cases 
by  the  detection  and  experimental  determination  of  toxic  agents, 
particularly  the  obscure  potent  substances  employed  by  the  natives. 
(d)  To  carry  out  such  chemical  and  bacteriological  tests  in  connec- 
tion with  water,  foodstuffs,  and  health  and  sanitary  matters  as  may 
be  found  desirable,  (e)  To  promote  the  study  of  disorders  and 
pests  which  attack  food  and  textile  producing  and  other  economic 
plant  life  in  the  Sudan.  (/)  To  undertake  the  testing  and  assaying 
of  agricultural,  mineral  and  other  substances  of  practical  interest  in 
the  industrial  development  of  the  Sudan. 
The  present  volume  contains  papers  on  the  following  subjects : 
(1)  Mosquito  work  in  Khartoum  and  the  Anglo-Egyptian  Sudan 
generally. 
(2)  Biting  and  various  insects  other  than  mosquitoes. 
(3)  On  some  blood-sucking  Diptera  from  the  Anglo-Egyptian 
Sudan  collected  during  the  year  1905,  with  descriptions  of  new 
species.    By  Ernest  E.  Austen. 
(4)  A  second  report  of  the  mosquitoes  or  Culicidse  of  the  Sudan. 
By  F.  V.  Theobald. 
