148 
Reviews. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I      March,  1900. 
Virginia  Pharmaceutical  Association.  Proceedings  of  the  Eighteenth 
Annual  Meeting,  held  at  Natural  Bridge,  July  18-20,  1899. 
The  proceedings  contain  reports  of  officers,  but  no  original  papers  were 
presented. 
New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Association.  Proceedings  of  the  Thirty- 
ninth  Annual  Meeting,  held  in  Atlantic  City,  May  24-25,  1899. 
The  following  are  the  titles  of  the  papers  presented  :  ' '  The  Pharmacopoeia 
and  Examinations/'  by  Wm.  C.  Alpers  ;  "Poor  Lime  Water,"  by  Pierce  P. 
Bear;  "Lime  Water,"  by  George  E.  Thum  ;  "A  History  of  Umbelliferous 
Plants,"  by  P.  E.  Hommell. 
Bulletin  of  the  New  York  Botanical  Garden.    Vol.  I,  No.  4. 
This  report  contains,  besides  reports  of  the  officers,  various  botanical  contri- 
butions. 
Bulletin  of  Miscellaneous  Information.  Botanical  Department, 
Trinidad.    Vol.  Ill,  Parts  8,  9,  10,  11. 
These  bulletins  contain,  as  usual,  a  number  of  notes  on  economical  plants 
growing  in  Trinidad. 
Bulletin  of  Miscellaneous  Information.  Royal  Gardens,  Kew.  Nos. 
139,  143,  147-150. 
These  numbers  contain  valuable  information  on  economical  plant  subjects. 
Plantes  Mfdicinales  et  Toxiques  du  Department  de  l'Herault. 
Par  le  Dr.  Louis  Planchon. 
A  list  of  plants  with  their  scientific,  French  and  local  names,  together  with 
geographical  distribution,  part  employed  and  uses,  which  were  exhibited  at  the 
exposition  at  Montpelier,  in  1896,  for  the  department  of  l'Herault. 
La  Naturaleza.    Segunda  Serie.    Tomo  III.    Guadernos  Numeros  3  y  4. 
This  number  of  the  Natural  History  Society  of  Mexico  is  principally  de- 
voted to  a  voluminous  and  important  paper  on  the  ornithology  of  Mexico,  by 
Alfonso  L.  Herrera.  The  paper  is  illustrated  with  a  large  number  of  large 
colored  plates  of  the  more  prominent  birds  of  Mexico. 
The  following  papers  have  been  published  in  the  Transactions  of  the  Academy 
of  Science  of  St.  Louis  : 
Notes  on  Some  Western  Willows.  By  C.  R.  Ball.  This  paper  contains 
the  results  of  a  systematic  and  comparative  study  of  over  thirty  species  and 
their  varieties  of  Western  willows. 
On  Temperatures  in  Gaseous  Nebula.  By  Francis  E.  Nipher.  The 
paper  deals  with  the  conditions  in  a  gravitating  nebula  having  uniform  tem- 
perature throughout  its  mass,  on  the  assumption  that  the  initial  temperature 
diminishes  from  the  centre  outwards. 
The  Process  of  Fertilization  inAspidium  and  Adiantum.  .By  Charles 
Thom.  This  is  an  important  paper  on  plant  cytology  and  adds  to  our  knowl- 
edge of  fertilization  in  those  plants  marking  the  boundary  line  between  the 
lower  and  higher  plants. 
