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Notes  and  News. 
f  A  m.  Jour.  Pharm. 
1  November,  1900. 
C.  F.  Shoemaker,  Philadelphia,  has  been  elected  Chairman  of  the  Propri- 
etary Committee  of  the  National  Wholesale  Druggists'  Association,  to  succeed 
Frank  A.  Faxon. 
The  Parts  Exposition  of  1900  has  announced  that  the  highest  award  (the 
Grand  Prize)  was  bestowed  upon  Remington's  Practice  of  Pharmacy.  The 
work  was  exhibited  by  the  publishers,  J.  B.  Dippincott  Company,  of  Philadel- 
phia. American  pharmacy  is  to  be  congratulated  on  account  of  the  inter- 
national recognition  of  American  pharmaceutical  literature. 
An  oiyD  historic  SITE  on  East  Washington  Square  has  passed  from  the  own- 
ership of  the  heirs  of  the  famous  lawyer,  Horace  Binney,  and  will  soon  be  torn 
down  to  make  way  for  a  fine  building  to  be  occupied  by  J.  B.  Lipp'incott  Com- 
pany, whose  old  home  was  burned  down  some  time  ago.  The  site  is  considered 
a  very  eligible  one  for  the  Lippincott  Company,  as  it  has  light  on  three  sides, 
is  very  central,  and  they  will  be  enabled  to  promptly  issue  and  increase  their 
excellent  line  of  medical  publications  by  standard  authorities.  The  new  cata- 
logue of  the  J.  B.  Ivippincott  Company,  just  issued,  is  handsomely  illustrated 
with  excellent  portraits  of  many  of  America's  leading  medical  writers. 
Statistical  methods  with  special  reference  to  biological  variation  is  a  new 
book  by  Prof.  C.  B.  Davenport,  of  the  University  of  Chicago,  and  is  published 
by  John  Wiley  &  Sons.  This  work  is  intended  especially  for  botanists, 
zoologists,  anthropologists,  anatomists,  physiologists  and  psychologists  who 
are  interested  in  the  quantitative  study  of  species  and  of  organic  variation.  It 
will  also  be  of  service  to  economists,  sociologists,  meteorologists  and  practical 
statisticians.  It  treats  in  simple  language  and,  for  the  most  part,  without  the 
use  of  mathematics  beyond  the  elements  of  algebra  of  the  statistical  methods 
elaborated  by  Gal-ton  and  Pearson. 
The  work  is  a  complete  handbook,  for  it  contains  tables  of  reduction  from 
English  to  metric  units  ;  squares,  cubes,  roots  and  reciprocals  of  numbers  from 
1  to  1,000;  six-place  logarithms  of  numbers  and  circular  functions;  table  of 
gamma  functions,  etc.  The  method  of  using  each  table  is  fully  explained. 
There  have  been  added,  also,  some  pages  of  metric  cross-section  paper  and  a 
protractor.  The  book  contains  twenty-eight  figures,  is  of  pocket  size,  and  is 
bound  in  morocco. 
Therapeutic  REFERENCE  Book. — Warner's  new  reference  book,  just  is- 
sued, contains  many  new  features,  new  formulae  and  much  valuable  up-to-date 
information.  The  physician  and  pharmacist  will  find  the  work  useful.  It  may 
be  obtained  of  Wm.  R.  Warner  &  Co.,  Philadelphia,  Chicago  and  New  York. 
Homoeopathy  has  been  defined  at  the  recent  meeting  of  the  American  In- 
stitute of  Homoeopathy  as  follows  :  "A  homoeopathic  physician  is  one  who 
adds  to  his  general  knowledge  of  medicine  a  special  knowledge  of  homoeo- 
pathic therapeutics  and  observes  the  law  of  similia.  All  that  pertains  to  medi- 
cine is  his  by  tradition,  by  inheritance  and  by  right." 
