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contained  in  a  little  upright  glass  vessel.  The  diffusion  of  the  vapor  of  the 
hydrocyanic  acid  is  almost  completely  prevented  by  this  contrivance,  and  no 
reduction  of  its  strength  can  therefore  take  pjace.  Pure  rubber  cannot  be- 
used,  the  acid  vapors  diffusing  through  it.  Professor  Attfield  suggested  as  an 
improvement,  instead  of  placing  the  thin  tube  into  mercury,  to  draw  a  rubber 
cap  over  a  thick  quilted  extremity. 
Centro  Pharmaceutics  Portuguez. — At  the  meeting  held  January  3d,  the 
following  gentlemen  were  elected  corresponding  members:  Antonio  A.  F. 
Santa  Clara,  of  Abrunheira;  Dr.  Felix  Martines,  of  Valencia;  Charles  Bul- 
lock, of  Philadelphia  ;  E.  Baudrimont,  of  Paris,  and  Dr.  Davreux,  of  Lieger 
Belgium. 
Fourth  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress. — A  circular  letter  has- 
been  issued,  dated  St.  Petersburg,  January  15  (24)  1874,  and  signed  by  the 
President  of  the  Committee  on  Organization,  R.  von  Schrceder,  and  the  Sec- 
retary, E.  Reonard.  It  informs,  on  behalf  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of 
St.  Petersburg,  that  the  Fourth  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress  will 
be  held  in  the  city  of  St.  Petersburg  in  August  next,  and  that  the  following- 
queries  for  discussion  have  been  agreed  upon  : 
1.  How  far  are  assistants  personally  responsible  in  the  exercise  of  their  pro- 
fessional duties  ? 
2.  Bow  may  the  Committee  of  Inspection  (Revisions  Commission)  of  Phar- 
macies be  most  suitably  organized  ? 
3d.  Is  it  necessary  that  the  professorship  of  pharmacy  should  be  occupied 
by  a  pharmacist  ? 
4th.  Is  it  not  time  that  an  international  pharmacopoeia  be  prepared  ? 
EEVIEWS  AND  BIBIIO GEAPHIC AL  NOTICES. 
Proceedings  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  the  Twenty -first 
Annual  Meeting,  held  in  Bichmond,  Va.,  September,  1873.  Philadelphia: 
Sherman  &  Co.,'  Printers,  1874.    8vo,  pp.  710. 
This  volume  is  just  ready,  and  will  be  distributed  to  all  entitled  early  in 
April,  two  months  later  than  the  editor  expected  to  have  it  out,  notwithstand- 
ing the  delay  before  going  to  press.  After  the  last  forms  had  been  put  in  type, 
and  nearly  the  entire  work  was  in  the  hands  of  the  binder,  a  fire  occurring  in- 
the  building  endangered  the  whole;  and,  though  no  loss  or  damage  was  done,  it 
occasioned  at  least  another  unlooked-for  delay. 
The  volume  is  the  largest  ever  issued  by  the  Association,  that  for  1871  ex- 
cepted, which,  together  with  the  decennial  index,  has  only  a  few  pages  morer 
but,  without  the  index,  falls  about  one  hundred  pages  behind.  In  point  of  in- 
terest, we  opine  that  its  contents  are  even  more  creditable  to  the  Association, 
and  particularly  to  the  working  members  thereof,  and  if,  in  its  perusal,  we  have 
any  regret  to  express,  it  is  this — that  most  of  even  the  most  valuable  papers 
elicited  comparatively  little  discussion.    Notwithstanding  this,  the  phono- 
