494  Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notes.   {  tp8^rm- 
the  result  of  such  investigations  as  you  may  cause  to  be  made,  and  the  character 
of  the  persons  connected  with  this  '  University.' 
"  I  am,  Sir,  your  obedient  servant, 
"A.  M.  Hancock,  U.  S.  Consult 
A  reply  was  sent,  informing  the  Consul  of  the  standing  of  the  establishment 
referred  to,  and  of  the  legal  proceedings  now  pending  against  it.  We  have 
informed  our  readers  of  the  latter  just  one  year  ago  (see  Amer.  Journ.  Pharm.t 
1873,  p.  476).  Justice  is  proverbially  slow;  let  us  hope  that  it  will  be  equally 
sure. 
EEVIEWS  AND  BIBLIO GE  APHIC  AL  NOTICES, 
GmeUn- Kraut's  FTandbnch  der  Ghemie,  Anorgamsclie  Ghemie.  Sechste  umgear- 
beitete  Aujiage.    Heidelberg:  Carl  Winter's  Universitats-Buchhandlung. 
We  have  just  received,  after  considerable  delay,  numbers  nine  and  ten  of  the 
third  volume  of  this  work,  which  bear  the  date  1873.  The  following  has  been 
published  until  now  :  Part  I  of  Vol.  I  (numbers  one,  two  and  three),  treating 
of  general  and  physical  chemistry,  by  Prof.  A.  Naumann  ;  Part  II  of  Yol.  I 
(eight  numbers),  containing  the  non-metallic  elements,  by  Profs.  H.  Ritter,  of 
Hioga,  Japan,  and  Carl  Kraut,  of  Hannover;  and  Vol.  Ill  (ten  numbers),  by 
Prof.  S.  M.  Jurgfnsen,  of  Copenhagen.  This  volume  contains,  as  far  as  it  has 
appeared,  the  metals,  zinc,  cadmium,  tin,  thallium,  lead,  iron,  cobalt,  nickel> 
copper  and  mercury.  Every  number  sustains  the  opinion  formed  of  the  new 
edition  of  this  great  work  on  the  appearance  of  the  first  few  numbers  (see 
Amer.  Journ.  Pharm.,  1872,  January,  p.  43).  To  those  of  our  readers  who  are 
not  yet  in  possession  of  Gmelin's  Organic  Chemistry,  it  will  be  welcome  news 
to  learn  that  the  latest  (fourth)  German  edition  of  it  will  be  supplied  by  the 
publishers,  until  further  notice,  at  the  considerably  reduced  price  of  twenty, 
five  thalers. 
The  Physiology  of  Man;  designed  to  represent  the  existing  state  of  physiolygica^ 
science,  as  applied  to  the  functions  of  the  human  body.  By  Austin  Flint,  Jr., 
M.  D.,  Professor  of  Physiology  and  Physiological  Anatomy  in  the  Bellevue 
Hospital  Medical  College,  New  York,  etc.  In  five  volumes.  Vol.V.  (with  a 
general  index  to  the  five  volumes)  Special  Senses  ;  Generation.  New  York  : 
I).  Appleton  &  Co.,  1874.    Price,  cloth  $4.50  ;  sheep  $5.50. 
This  is  the  concluding  volume  of  a  work  to  which  the  author  has  devoted 
eleven  years  of  study  and  research,  and  of  which  the  preceding  volumes  have 
received  the  praise  which  is  due  to  the  careful  experimenter,  the  close  observer 
and  the  profound  student.  The  volume  before  us  bears  the  same  character- 
istics of  excellence  in  the  judicious  arrangement  of  the  material,  the  clear  and 
concise  language,  and  the  absence  of  unprofitable  speculations.  The  author  may 
verily  indulge  the  hope  "  that  he  has  written  a  book  which  may  assist  his  fellow 
workers,  and  interest  not  only  the  student  and  practitioner  of  medicine,  but 
some  others  who  desire  to  keep  pace  with  the  progress  of  natural  science." 
