200        .     Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notices.  {^^Im^' 
graphic  report  is  by  no  means  the  least  interesting  portion  of  the  volume  ;  on 
the  contrary,  it  contains  numerous  valuable  facts  nnd  suggestions. 
Nearly  all  the  Committee  reports  are  filled  with  practical  and  scientific  in- 
formation, and  the  papers  written  iu  answer  to  queries,  as  well  as  the  volunteer 
•essays  are  mostly  of  more  than  mere  ephemerous  value.  The  book  contains 
several  papers  from  the  pen  of  Prof.  Procter — his  last  contributions  to  pharma- 
ceutical knowledge. 
Such  a  creditable  volume,  it  is  to  be  hoped,  will  be  an  incentive  to  all  mem- 
bers of  this  national  association  to  aid  in  making  the  next  one  of  equal  if  not 
greater  value. 
Year  Book  of  Pharmacy,  comprising  abstracts  of  papers  relating  to  pharmacy, 
materia  medica  and  chemistry,  contributed  to  British  and  foreign  journals, 
from  July  1,  1872,  to  June  30,  1873,  with  the  transactions  of  the  British  Phar- 
maceutical Conference  at  the  Tenth  Annual  Meeting,  held  at  Bradford,  Sep- 
tember, 187  8.    London:  J.  &  A.  Churchill.    8vo,  pp.  588. 
On  page  523  of  the  last  volume,  we  have  given  an  account  of  the  Transactions 
of  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference,  at  which  a  number  of  interesting 
papers  were  read,  several  of  which  have  been  reproduced  in  this  Journal,  and 
others  we  hope  to  bring  to  the  notice  of  our  readers,  if  not  entire,  at  least  in 
the  form  of  an  abstract.  Many  of  the  papers  are  followed  by  very  interesting 
•discussions,  to  condense  which  is  next  to  impossible. 
The  principal  feature  of  the  volume  before  us  is  the  'Year  Book,"  which 
occupies  nearly  350  pages,  and  consists  of  copious  abstracts  of  the  more  im- 
portant papers  relating  to  pharmacy,  and  contributed  to  or  published  in  phar- 
maceutical and  other  journals;  the  most  important  papers  have  been  repro- 
duced in  extenso.  There  is,  we  think,  a  great  improvement  in  the  arrangement 
of  the  vast  amount  of  material,  as  compared  with  former  issues;  in  fact  it 
leaves  scarcely  anything  to  be  desired. 
The  "  getting  up"  of  the  volume  is  creditable  alike  to  the  Conference  and  to 
the  Editors. 
Proceedings  of  the  Vermont  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  the  Fourth  Annual 
Meeting  held  at  Burlington,  September,  1873.  Rutland:  Globe  Paper  Co., 
Printers,  1874.    8vo,  pp.  57. 
In  our  la^t  volume,  on  page  523,  we  have  reported  the  meeting,  of  which  the 
pamphlet  before  us  gives  a  more  complete  account.  It  is  a  live  body,  the  phar- 
maceutical association  from  the  Green  Mountain  State,  as  is  amply  testified  by 
the  published  Proceedings.  The  addresses  and  reports  presented  by  the  offi- 
cers and  committees  have  always  been  to  the  point,  and  whatever  may  appear 
strange  is  easily  rectified  by  the  free  discussion  to  which  expressed  opinions 
are  subjected.  A  case  in  point,  in  this  pamphlet,  is  the  excellent  response  of 
Mr.  Rider,  of  Middlebury,  to  a  paper  advocating  the  use  of  English  instead  of 
Latin  for  labels  and  prescriptions,  and  we  expect  that  another  paper,  which 
has  all  the  appearances  of  a  panegyric  on  patent  medicines,  will  receive  a  simi- 
lar good  reply  at  the  next  annual  meeting  ;  it  elicited  much  discussion,  as  we 
are  informed  by  the  minutes. 
We  hope  that  this  Association  may  not  be  wanting  in  the  council  of  the  Na- 
