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EDITORIAL. 
and  is  double  the  usual  size,  we  look  upon  it  as  an  indication  of  a  decided 
step  in  advance  by  the  Association,  and  an  earnest  of  what  may  be  ex- 
pected when  a  more  general  interest  is  taken  in  its  success  by  pharmaceu- 
tists in  all  parts  of  the  Union.  We  do  not  know  what  arrangement  the 
Executive  Committee  have  made  for  the  distribution  of  the  work  to  those 
not  members,  since  its  publication  has  become  such  a  heavy  item  in  the  ex- 
penditures of  the  Association,  but  would  suggest  to  those  who  feel  an  in- 
terest in  its  progress,  to  mail  half  a  dozen  letter  stamps  to  Edward  Parrish, 
chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee,  8th  and  Arch  streets,  Philadelphia, 
with  the  request  to  have  the  pamphlet  sent  by  post.  In  this  way,  at  a  very 
small  inconvenience  and  expense,  much  aid  can  be  extended. 
Chemical  and  Pharmaceutical  Manipulations  ;  a  Manual  of  the  Mechanical 
and  Chemico- Mechanical  operations  of  the  Laboratory,  for  the  use  of  Chem- 
ists, Druggists,  Manufacturers,  Teachers  and  Students.  Second  and 
enlarged  edition.  By  Campbell  Morfit,  Prof,  of  Analytic  and  Applied 
Chemistry  in  the  University  of  Maryland,  and  Clarence  Morfit,  of  the 
U.  S.  Assay  Office.  With  537  illustrations.  Philadelphia :  Lindsay  & 
Blakiston,  1857.-   Pp.  629,  octavo. 
It  is  with  satisfaction  that  we  have  glanced  over  Prof.  Morfit's  new 
edition,  and  compared  it  with  the  previous  one  of  1849.  We  have  been  in 
the  habit  of  recommending  this  work,  as  calculated  to  be  really  useful  to 
pharmaceutists  who  aim  at  qualifying  themselves  in  the  details  of  chemical 
manipulation.  It  is  clearly  written,  well  illustrated  with  drawings,  and 
practical  in  its  character.  This  edition  is  much  enlarged,  and  bears  the 
impress  of  a  careful  revision.  In  point  of  mechanical  execution  the  volume 
is  highly  creditable  to  the  publishers,  both  as  regards  the  paper,  press 
work  and  binding.  We  would  offer  some  extracts  from  the  new  matter, 
had  we  not  already  at  page  17  given  space  to  a  notice  of  the  same  work 
by  a  contributor,  to  which  our  readers  are  referred. 
Transactions  of  the  New  Hampshire  Medical  Society,  (sixty-sixth  Anniversa- 
ry, held  at  Concord,  June  3rd  and  4th,  1856.  Concord,  N.  H.,  1856. 
Pp.  76. 
This  pamphlet  embraces  several  papers,  among  which  are  reports  on 
Quackery,  and  on  the  indigenous  Botany  and  Materia  Medica,  by  Albert 
Smith,  M.  P.,  of  Peterborough,  N.  H.  We  may  have  occasion  to  again  re- 
%  fer  to  these,  but  at  present  our  space  is  exhausted. 
