496  Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notices.  {A"b£t SSl* 
consisting  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Smithsonian  Institution,  the  Surgeon- 
Generals  of  the  United  States  Army  and  Navy,  and  the  President  of  the 
Medical  Society  of  the  District  of  Columbia,  a  fund,  the  interest  of  which  is 
to  be  applied  for  at  least  two  annual  memoirs  or  essays  relative  to  some  branch 
of  medical  science,  and  containing  some  new  truth  fully  established  by  experi- 
ment or  observation.  These  lectures  are  published  by  the  Smithsonian  Insti- 
tution in  its  "  Miscellaneous  Collections." 
Address  of  Joseph  M.  Turner,  M.  D.    Philadelphia:  Collins,  Printer.  1874. 
8vo,  pp.  20. 
This  is  the  annual  address  of  the  President  of  the  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation, and  was  delivered  at  the  meeting,  held  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  in  May  last. 
Bulletin  of  the  Btssey  Institution  (Jamaica  Plain,  Boston).     Cambridge  : 
University  Press.    1874.    8vo,  pp  80. 
The  pamphlet  gives  a  historical  sketch  of  this  institution,  which  was  estab- 
lished under  the  trusts  created  by  the  will  of  Benj.  Bussey,  of  Roxbury,  Mass., 
bearing  date  July  30th,  1835.  The  following  papers  are  contained  in  the  pub- 
lication before  us:  By  Prof.  D.  D.  Slade,  on  the  humane  destruction  of 
animals  ;  and,  by  Prof.  F.  H.  Storer,  Results  obtained  on  examining  some 
commercial  fertilizers  by  way  of  analysis ;  Results  obtained  on  analyzing 
several  samples  of  "shorts"  and  "middlings,"  with  remarks  on  the  average 
composition  of  bran  ;  on  the  agricultural  value  of  the  ashes  of  anthracite; 
and  a  portion  of  a  Record  of  Trials  of  various  Fertilizers. 
Transactions  of  the  Michigan  State  Medical  Society  for  the  Year  1874.  Series 
II,  Vol.  VI.    Lansing :  W.  S.  George  &  Co.,  1874.    8vo,  pp.  269. 
It  contains  the  minutes,  addresses  and  reports  read  at  the  eighth  annual 
meeting,  held  at  Coldwater  May  6th. 
Essentials  of  the  Principles  and  Practice  of  Medicine.  A  handbook  for  stu- 
dents and  practitioners.  By  Henry  Hartshorne,  A.  M.,  M.  D.,  Professor 
of  Hygiene  in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  &c.  Fourth  edition,  thor- 
oughly revised,  with  100  illustrations  Philadelphia:  Henry  C.  Lea,  1874. 
12mo,  pp.  548. 
We  have  noticed  the  third  edition  of  this  work,  three  years  ago  (see  Amer. 
Journ.  Pharm  ,  1871,  Nov.,  p.  527).  The  necessity  of  a  new  edition  after  so 
short  a  time  is  a  sufficient  guarantee  of  its  usefulness.  The  general  plan  of 
the  work  has  b^en  partially  modified,  so  as  to  embody  the  most  important 
suggestions,  as  well  as  results  of  observations,  presented  in  recent  medical 
literature.  For  the  first  time,  illustrations  appear  in  this  edition ;  they  have 
been  chosen  with  the  view  of  elucidating  a  number  of  subjects  of  special  im- 
portance and  interest. 
