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value  and  interest  than  Volume  I.  The  citation  of  authorities  has  been  judi- 
ciously and  abundantly  made  throughout  the  work. 
The  Discovery  of  Oxygen  and  Its  Immediate  Results,  Including 
the  Overthrow  of  the  Phlogiston  Theory. 
Reprinted  from  a  series  of  articles  in  the  Pharmaceutical  Journal,  which,  we 
presume,  were  from  the  ready  pen  of  the  editor.  The  reprint  makes  a  pamphlet 
of  59  pages,  and  it  is  a  scholarly  account  of  the  investigations  of  Priestley, 
Scheele,  Cavendish  and  Lavoisier.  Its  publication  at  this  time  is  especially 
opportune,  since  the  one-hundred -and-fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  birth  of 
Scheele  was  celebrated  a  short  time  ago,  and  the  centenary  of  the  death  of 
Lavoisier,  the  founder  of  modern  chemistry,  still  more  recently. 
All  of  these  men  were  more  or  less  connected  with  pharmacy,  as  it  existed 
in  their  day,  and  this  account  of  them  is  of  interest  to  pharmacists  for  that 
reason.  At  the  same  time,  it  enables  one  to  understand  more  clearly  the 
wonderful  progress  that  has  been  made  in  chemistry  during  the  nineteenth 
century. 
State  Control  in  Medicine  :  an  introductory  address  to  the  sixty-fifth 
lecture  course  of  the  Albany  Medical  College.    By  Willis  G.  Tucker,  M.D. 
On  the  Relations  of  Chemistry  to  Education.  By  William  H.  Sea- 
man, M.D. 
An  address  of  the  retiring  president  before  the  Chemical  Society  of  Washing- 
ton, D.  C. 
Contribution  a  l'Etude  du  Psidium  Pomiferum,  L.  Par  Joseph  Khouri. 
Thesis  presented  to  the  Ecole  Suphieure  de  Pharmacie,  Paris,  for  the  diploma 
of  pharmacist  of  the  first  class.    Paris  :  Le  Bigot  Freres.  1895. 
Antitoxines,  Vaccine  Virus,  and  Other  Biological  Products,  issued 
by  the  Biological  and  Vaccinal  Department  of  the  New  York  Pasteur  Institute, 
New  York. 
This  pamphlet  of  28  pages  gives  some  account  of  each  of  the  serums  pre- 
pared by  the  above  Institute,  and  for  sale  by  their  agents,  Messrs.  Lehn  &Fink. 
It  is  a  satisfaction  to  know  that  we  have  the  means  of  producing  these  serums 
in  this  country,  and  that  they  are  supplied  in  both  the  liquid  and  the  dry  state. 
Forestry  for  Farmers.  By  B.  E.  Fernow,  U.  S.  Department  of  Agricul- 
ture.   Washington  :  1895. 
The  Composition  of  Expired  Air  and  Its  Effects  upon  Animal  Life. 
By  J.  S.  Billings,  M.D.,  S.  Weir  Mitchell,  M.D.,  and  D.  H.  Bergey,  M.D. 
Smithsonian  Contributions  to  Knowledge,  No.  989.    Washington,  1895. 
VlERTELJAHRESSCHRlFT  UBER  DIE  FORTSCHRITTE  AUF  DEM  GEBIETE  DER 
Chemie  der  Nahrungs-  und  Genussmittel.  Von  Dr.  A.  Hilger,  Dr.  J. 
Kouig,  Dr.  R.  Kayser  and  Dr.  E.  Sell.  Berlin:  Verlag  von  Julius  Springer, 
1895. 
The  third  number  of  the  tenth  volume  of  this  interesting  publication  is  fully 
up  to  the  standard  of  its  predecessors.  The  abstracts  cover  nearly  everything 
relating  to  foods,  and  a  valuable  bibliography  of  all  recent  books  on  foods  and 
food  products  is  appended. 
Nouveau  Procede  pour  la  Preparation  de  Grands  Exemplaires  de 
Cristaux.  Par  Raymond  van  Melckebeke.  Reprint  from  Annales  de  Phar- 
macie, Louvaiu,  1895. 
