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Reviews,  etc. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
1      June,  1877. 
portion  of  the  work  is  in  the  hands  of  Dr.  S.  M.  Jorgensen,  of  Copenhagen,  who 
has  already,  in  an  admirable  manner,  finished  the  third  volume,  comprising  the 
metals  of  the  iron,  mercury  and  platinum  groups ;  the  subjects  of  the  present 
numbers  are  equally  complete. 
Medicinal  Plants,  being  Descriptions,  with  Original  Figures,  of  the  Principal  Plants 
employed  in  Medicine,  and  an  Account  of  their  Properties  and  Uses.  By  Rob. 
Bentley,  F  L  S.,  and  Henry  Trimen,  M.B.,  F.L.S.  Philadelphia:  Lindsay  & 
Blakiston.    Parts  16,  17,  18.    Price,  per  pan,  $2.00. 
With  the  gradual  progress  of  this  interesting  and  important  work,  we  have  taken 
occaMon  to  refer  to  it  from  time  to  time,  and  are  pleased  that  now,  when  nearly 
one-half  of  it  has  been  published,  the  favorable  impressions  received  from  the  first 
few  numbers  have  been  altogether  justified  by  the  later  ones.  The  parts  now  before 
us  contain  colored  plates  and  descriptions  of  the  following  plants:  Acacia  catechu, 
Ac.  Senegal,  Achillea  millefolium,  Acorus  calamus,  Aristolochia  serpentaria, 
Daphne  gnidium,  D.  laureola,  Diospyros  embryopteris  (used  in  India  like  the  per- 
simmon in  this  country),  Eugenia  caryophyllata,  Ferula  galbaniflua  (not  previously 
figured  ;  one  of  the  plants  yielding  galbanum),  Lactuca  virosa,  Oryza  sativa,  Piper 
angustifolium  (Matico),  P.  longum,  P.  nigrum,  Punica  granatum,  Quercus  robur, 
infectoria,  Rheum  officinale  (the  rhubarb  plant,  figured  with  flowers  and  fruit; 
see  "Amer.  Jour.  Phar.,"  1876,  p.  307),  Santalum  album,  Soymida  febrifuga  (yield- 
ing the  Rohun  bark  of  India,  a  name  by  which  also  the  nux  vomica  bark  is  known) 
and  Toddalia  aculeata  (the  parent  plant  of  the  Indian  Lopez  root). 
Thirteenth  Annual  Report  of  the  Alumni  Association,  with  the  exercises  of  the  fifty- 
sixth  commencement  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  1877.  8vo, 
pp.  48. 
We  have  already  given,  on  page  198,  an  account  of  the  proceedings  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  Alumni  Association  ;  besides  the  addresses,  reports  and  minutes 
there  mentioned,  this  report  contains  also  the  introductory  lecture  and  an  abstract 
of  the  valedictory  address  to  the  course  1876-77.  Copies  of  the  report  may  be 
obtained  from  the  Secretary  of  the  Association,  Mr.  Wallace  Procter,  500  South 
Ninth  street,  Philadelphia. 
Proceedings  of  the  Connecticut  Pharmaceutical  Association,  at  the  first  annual  meeting, 
held  at  the  Allyn  House,  Hartford,  Conn.,  Feb.  7,  1877.  New  Haven.  8vo,  pp.  15. 
On  page  139  of  our  March  number  will  be  found  a  brief  account  of  the  second 
(first  annual)  meeting  of  this  State  organization.  Upon  perusal  of  this  modest 
pamphlet,  we  cannot  but  congratulate  our  friends  upon  the  commendable  spirit 
which  appears  to  have  pervaded  the  transactions,  and  is  more  particularly  evinced 
in  the  excellent  address  of  the  president  and  in  the  subject  matter  of  the  queries 
proposed  and  accepted.  The  latter  refer  to  the  perfection  and  strengthening  of 
the  organization,  to  apprenticeship,  to  the  preservation  of  prescriptions,  the  labeling 
of  medicines,  the  coating  of  pills,  the  powdering  of  extracts,  the  desirability  of 
legislation  and  the  fostering  of  associations  for  the  benefit  of  pharmacists.  From 
