Am.  Jour.  Pharm.") 
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Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
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The  translations  of  Richter's  text-books  on  chemistry  by  Edgar 
F.  Smith  have  always  been  opportunities  for  the  author  to  add  the 
more  important  recent  and  well-established  discoveries  in  chemical 
science.  The  fifth  American  edition  contains  additions  relating  to 
the  general  properties  and  the  measurements  of  gases  in  the  atmos- 
phere ;  a  concise  treatment  of  the  new  atmospheric  gases  recently 
discovered ;  and  valuable  information  on  the  theory  of  dilute  solu- 
tions and  electrolytic  dissociation.  The  fifth  edition  is  an  up-to-date, 
concise  and  valuable  work  of  Inorganic  Chemistry. 
A  Manual  of  Materia  Medica  and  Pharmacology.  By  David 
M.  R.  Culbreth.  Second  Edition,  enlarged  and  thoroughly  revised. 
With  464  illustrations.  Philadelphia  and  New  York  :  Lea  Brothers 
&  Co. 
This  work  consists  of  a  general  part  treating  of  posology,  causes 
modifying  dosage  ;  modes  of  administration  of  medicines  and  a  class- 
ification of  medicines.  In  Part  I  the  organic  drugs  from  the  vege- 
table kingdom  are  considered.  Part  II  is  devoted  to  a  considera- 
tion of  organic  drugs  from  the  animal  kingdom.  Part  III  treats 
of  the  inorganic  drugs  from  the  mineral  kingdom  ;  Part  IV,  of  the 
organic  carbon  compounds,  and  part  V,  of  the  non-pharmacopceial 
organic  carbon  compounds.  Then  follows  the  treatment  of  the 
microscope  and  its  use  in  materia  medica ;  the  treatment  and  anti- 
dotes of  poisons  ;  prescription  writing  of  the  physician ;  tables  of 
weights,  measures,  doses,  drops,  thermometers,  abbreviations  and 
constituents. 
The  book  contains  much  valuable  information  and  will  be  found 
a  useful  handbook  to  students  and  a  valuable  reference  book  for 
pharmacists. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  second  of  the  present  series  of  pharmaceutical  meetings  of 
the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  for  1900-1901,  was  held  on 
Tuesday,  November  20,  1900,  in  the  Museum  of  the  College.  W. 
L.  Cliffe,  a  well-known  pharmacist  of  this  city,  presided.  The  first 
speaker  was  Frederick  T.  Gordon,  who  read  a  paper  on  "  An  Im- 
proved Process  for  the  Preparation  of  Tinctura  Opii  Deodorati " 
(see  page  576).    The  preparation  of  this  tincture  has  been  long  a 
