Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  I 
September,  1907.  f 
Book  Reviews. 
447 
As  a  reference  book  for  physicians  this  manual  will  be  both  con- 
venient  and  valuable,  particularly  as  the  preparations  into  which 
the  drug  enters«are  given  with  each  drug. 
Traite  de  Toxicologie  Vegetale.  Application  du  Microscope 
a  la  Recherche  des  Poisons  Vegetaux  par  M.  Eug.  Collin.  Avec 
1 80  figures  dans  le  Texte.  Paris:  Octave  Doin,  Editeur.  1907- 
205  pp.    6  fr. 
This  new  work  by  Collin  on  the  botany  and  pharmacognosy 
of  the  important  poisonous  vegetable  drugs  is  of  considerable 
interest.  It  is  the  best  book  in  the  French  language  that  we 
remember  to  have  seen  treating  of  the  morphology  and  anatomy  of 
toxic  drugs,  together  with  the  microscopical  characteristics  of  the 
powders.    The  illustrations  are  well  executed  and  accurate. 
The  drugs  are  arranged  according  to  families.  Besides  the  usual 
poisonous  vegetable  drugs,  some  of  the  poisonous  fungi  and  can- 
tharides  are  also  considered.  With  the  splendid  facilities  and  the 
spirit  of  research  that  has  dominated  French  pharmaceutical  educa- 
tion, one  wonders  that  a  work  of  this  kind  did  not  appear  earlier, 
London  Botanic  Gardens.    By  Pierre  Elie  Felix  Perredes. 
This  pamphlet  of  99  pages  is  a  reprint  from  this  Journal  of  a 
series  of  papers  contributed  by  the  author  in  1905  and  1906.  It  is 
the  sixty-second  paper  representing  original  work  which  has  come 
from  the  Wellcome  Chemical  Research  Laboratories.  All  of  these 
papers  are  of  a  high  order  of  merit  and  are  contributions  to  the 
science  of  pharmacy.  Dr.  Power,  as  director  of  the  Research 
Laboratories,  has  shown  what  research  must  mean,  and  for  any 
laboratory  in  pharmacy  to  call  itself  a  research  laboratory  is  a  mis. 
nomer  unless  investigations  are  carried  on.  That  the  work  emanat- 
ing from  the  Wellcome  Research  Laboratories  is  appreciated  is  shown 
by  the  awards  at  the  Milan  Exposition  (see  this  Journal,  June, 
1907,  p.  298). 
The  pamphlet  gives  the  history  and  description  of  Kew  Gardens, 
The  Royal  Botanic  Society's  Gardens  in  Regent's  Park,  and  the 
Chelsea  Physic  Garden.  It  is  illustrated  with  thirty-one  full-page 
plates,  which  are  admirably  executed.  The  book  is  of  interest  to 
botanists  and  pharmacists  alike.  The  feature  which  makes  it  of 
special  interest  to  pharmacists  is  the  enumeration  of  the  medicinal 
plants  growing  in  the  gardens. 
