Am.  Jour.  Pharm."! 
December,  1S9-4.  J 
Pharmaceutical  Meeting, 
599 
350,000  tons  of  this  adulterant  for  coffee ;  4,000  tons  are  sent  to  the  United 
States. 
Syllabus  of  Lectures  on  '  Human  Embryology :  an  introduction  to  the  study 
of  Obstetrics  and  Gynaecology.  For  Medical  Students  and  Practitioners. 
With  a  Glossary  of  Fnibryological  Terms.  By  Walter  Porter  Mantou,  M.D. 
Illustrated  with  seventy  (70)  outline  drawings  and  photo-engravings.  i2mo. 
Cloth.    Pp.  126.    Philadelphia  :  The  F.  A.  Davis  Company. 
The  above  work,  which  gives,  in  a  clear,  concise  and  well-illustrated  manner, 
the  essential  facts  of  human  embryology,  is  well  adapted  to  the  needs  of  the 
busy  medical  student.  It  is  so  arranged  that  it  can  be  used  in  the  class-room  by 
the  teacher  if  desired. 
An  iuterestiug  section  is  added,  giving  instruction  for  practical  work. 
C.  B.  L. 
Proceedings  of  the  New  York  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.  An 
account  of  this  meeting  was  given  in  the  August  number  of  this  journal. 
Proceedings  of  the  Tenth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Minnesota  State  Pharma- 
ceutical Association,  held  in  June,  1894. 
Semi-annual  Report  of  Schimmel  &  Co.,  Leipzig  and  New  York,  October, 
1894. 
Pharmacy  a  Science.  Introductory  address  before  the  Albany  College  of 
Pharmacy.    By  Willis  G.  Tucker,  M.D.,  October,  1894. 
Proceedings  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences.  From  May, 
1893,  to  May,  1894.    Boston,  1894. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
Philadelphia,  November  20,  1894. 
The  meeting  was  called  to  order  by  electing  Dr.  A.  W.  Miller  as  chairman. 
The  reading  of  the  minutes  was  dispensed  with.  Dr.  Judson  Daland  explained 
to  the  meetirg  the  structure  and  use  of  an  instrument  invented  by  him,  called 
the  Haematokrit.  The  instrument  depends  upon  the  effect  of  centrifugal  force 
carrying  the  heavier  portions  of  the  blood  to  the  further  portion  of  the  capil- 
lary tube,  that  by  means  of  a  system  of  multiplying  wheels  is  made  to  revolve 
10,000  times  in  a  minute,  this  enables  the  operator  to  examine  the  blood  so  as 
to  detect  any  variations  which  a  sample  of  blood  submitted  to  inspection  may 
have  when  compared  with  a  sample  of  normal  blood.  At  first  it  was  supposed 
to  be  necessary  to  dilute  the  blood  in  order  to  inspect  it,  and  a  2%  per  cent, 
solution  of  potassium  bichromate  was  employed  ;  but  this  was  abandoned.  It 
was  found  by  experiment  that  51*6  per  cent,  by  volume  were  corpuscles,  the 
red  corpuscles  being  at  the  furthest  extremity  of  the  tube  and  the  white  cor- 
puscles arranged  next  to  them.  Their  relation  being  as  one  white  to  five 
hundred  red  corpuscles— to  effect  this  properly  the  handle  should  be  revolved 
seventy-seven  times  in  a  minute  ;  if  the  measuring  tube  is  not  revolved  with 
sufficient  rapidity,  the  corpuscles  will  be  too  loosely  packed,  and  the  indication 
will  not  be  fair  and  true.  The  excellence  of  this  instrument  over  the  usual  mode 
of  estimation  by  micrometer  counting  is  very  great,  as  a  truthful  result  can  be 
