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of  the  first  four  Xanthiums  and  Solidago  emarginata  accompany 
the  article. 
Heber  W.  Youngken. 
Year  Book  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
1916.  Volume  5.  Published  by  The  American  Pharmaceutical  As- 
sociation. 
The  appearance  of  the  fifth  volume  of  the  series  of  "  year  books  " 
issued  by  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  will  be  wel- 
comed by  all  students  of  the  advances  made  in  the  work  of  pharma- 
cists and  especially  by  those  who  are  either  engaged  personally  in 
research  investigations  or  in  guiding  students  who  are  undertaking 
such  investigations. 
The  title  page  informs  the  reader  that  this  publication  is  "  cor- 
responding to  volume  sixty-four  of  the  former  proceedings  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association."  Since  the  Journal  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association  has  taken  the  place  of  the 
large  amount  of  current  literature  and  accounts  of  the  meeting,  etc., 
that  formerly  was  published  in  the  Proceedings,  this  unnecessary 
statement  is  not  literally  true  and  could  very  well  be  omitted. 
The  present  volume  follows  very  closely  the  style  of  its  predeces- 
sors in  arrangement,  typography,  content,  etc.  The  Association  data 
regarding  the  meetings  of  the  Association,  officers  and  committees, 
and  the  constitution,  by-laws,  rules  and  investments  and  the  directory 
of  members  contains  much  that  is  needed  for  the  workers  within 
the  Association. 
The  Report  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy  is  the  portion  of  the 
book  that  will  appeal  to  the  general  worker  in  pharmacy  and  chem- 
istry and  contains  a  review  of  the  valuable  contributions  to  the  lit- 
erature during  the  year  it  records.  It  thus  becomes  not  only  an 
index  of  progress  but  a  valuable  source  of  information  and  of  ref- 
erence to  original  work  on  all  subjects  pharmaceutical  or  allied 
thereto.  Necessarily  under  the  war  conditions  now  existing  the  ref- 
erences to  continental  European  literature  are  limited. 
G.  M.  B. 
