Am  .Jour.  Pharm.  1 
Feb.,  1878.  J 
Editorial. — Reviews,  etc. 
93 
late  the  practice  of  pharmacy  and  sale  of  poisons,  and  to  prevent  adulteration  of  drugs* 
etc.)  in  Pennsylvania.  At  the  time  of  going  to  press  we  have  not  yet  received  a  copy 
of  the  proposed  bill,  nor  have  we  been  able  from  inquiries  made  in  Philadelphia  to 
learn  its  provisions  or  by  whom  it  was  drafted.  It  being  a  matter  which  concerns 
all  the  pharmacists  in  the  State,  it  is  but  proper  that  they  should  be  heard  in  relation 
to  the  proposed  measure.  The  number  of  States  in  which  pharmacy  laws  apply  to 
the  entire  State  is  gradually  becoming  greater,  and  will  doubtless  ultimately  embrace 
the  whole  territory  of  the  United  States.  The  pharmacists  should,  therefore,  be 
watchful,  so  that  the  coming  legislation  may  be  wisely  guided  towards  the  great  aim 
of  such  measures,  viz.,  full  protection  of  the  public  without  being  oppressive  upon 
the  pharmaceutical  practitioner.  In  our  opinion,  the  present  would  be  a  fit  occa- 
sion for  calling  a  convention  of  Pennsylvania  pharmacists  at  the  State  Capital,  and 
for  the  permanent  organization  of  a  State  pharmaceutical  association  5  and,  in  fur- 
therance of  this  object,  we  renew  our  suggestion,  made  in  the  May  number  last  year, 
that  the  pharmacists  of  Harrisburg  take  the  matter  in  hand  and  call  such  a  conven- 
tion at  an  early  date.  From  the  experience  in  other  States,  we  judge  that  there  will 
be  no  difficulty  in  Pennsylvania  to  establish  a  useful  and  influential  organization. 
Correspondents  will  greatly  oblige  the  Editor  by  giving  their  correct  address,  s<v 
that  replies  may  reach  them.  Several  letters  were  recently  returned  in  consequence 
of  this  omission 
Correction. — In  the  list  of  graduates  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
recently  published,  the  name  of  Mr.  George  Blinkhorn,  a  graduate  of  the  class  of 
1857,  was  inadvertantly  omitted.  William  C.  Bakes, 
Secretary  Board  of  Trustees* 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Tear-Book  of  Pharmacy  ,•  comprising  Abstracts  of  Papers  relating  to  Pharmacy,. 
Materia  Medica  and  Chemistry  contributed  to  British  and  Foreign  Journals  from 
July  1,  1876,  to  June  30,  1877;  with  the  Transactions  of  the  British  Pharma- 
ceutical Conference  at  the  Fourteenth  Annual  Meeting,  held  in  Plymouth,  Aug., 
1877.    London:  J.  &  A.  Churchill,  1877.    8vo,  pp.  653. 
Proceedings  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  the  Tujenty-fifth  Annual 
Meeting,  held  in  Toronto,  Ont.,  Sept.,  1877      Philadelphia:    Sherman  &  Co., 
Printers,  1878.    8vo,  pp.  647.    Price,  by  mail,  bound,  $6.50. 
We  are  enabled  to  notice  the  publication  of  these  annuals  at  the  same  time,  each 
one  having  been  distributed  a  little  over  four  months  after  the  close  of  the  respec- 
tive annual  meeting.    We  have  on  former  occasions  discussed  the  merits  and 
intrinsic  value  of  both  publications,  and  it  remains  only  to  state  that  those  before  us 
come  fully  up  to  what  may  be  reasonably  expected  of  them.    If  we  should  wish  for 
any  improvements,  it  would  be,  in  the  Year-Book,  a  more  systematized  arrangement 
and  briefer  abstracts  of  some  of  the  papers,  and  in  the  Report  on  the  Progress  of 
Pharmacy  of  the  "Proceedings,"  more  extended  notices  of  some  of  the  researches. 
It  is  obvious  that  such  annual  reports  cannot  be  intended  to  entirely  supercede  the 
consultation  of  the  original  papers,  but  that  they  should  rather  furnish  the  full  out- 
