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LES  Ferments  Solubles  (Diastases — Enzymes).  Par  Einile  Bourquelot. 
Paris  :  Societe  d'Editions  Scientifiques,  1896.    Pp.  220. 
Chapter  I  is  devoted  to  the  definition  and  classification  of  the  soluble  fer- 
ments. The  remaining  chapters  take  up  the  various  ferments  which  have  been 
classified,  and  consider  their  origin,  preparation,  composition,  action  and  the 
results  of  the  action  of  physical  and  chemical  agents.  A  final  chapter  discusses 
the  theories  of  fermentation. 
Each  chapter  in  the  book  is  followed  by  a  list  of  references,  which,  as  a 
whole,  make  a  valuable  bibliography  of  the  subject.  Many  of  the  ferments 
considered  are  of  immediate  interest  to  pharmacists,  for  example,  diastase, 
maltase,  pepsin,  papain,  etc.,  and  the  whole  book  forms  a  complete  mono- 
graph on  the  ferments  that  will  well  repay  one  for  the  reading. 
Annual  Report  of  the  Clerk  of  Forestry,  for  the  Province  of  Ontario. 
By  Thomas  Southworth,  Clerk.    Toronto,  Ont.,  1896. 
The  whole  of  this  pamphlet  of  132  pages  is  of  interest  to  foresters,  agricultur- 
ists and  the  general  reader.  The  sections  which  are  especially  attractive  to 
the  pharmacist  are  "The  Uses  for  Forest  Products,"  "  Trees  as  Industrial  Re- 
sources" and  "Gall  Insects  Infesting  Canadian  Oaks."  Forestry  in  Canada, 
as  in  the  United  States,  is  attracting  the  attention  of  many  economic  students, 
and  the  desirability  of  intelligent  treatment  of  the  subject  is  as  important  for 
the  well-being  of  that  country  as  it  is  for  our  own. 
Contributions  of  the  U.  S.  National  Herbarium.    Vol.  Ill,  No.  9. 
U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture,  Division  of  Botany. 
This  number  comprises  the  following  contributions  : 
I.  Flora  of  Southwestern  Kansas.  Report  on  a  collection  of  plants  made 
by  C.  H.  Thompson  in  1893.    By  A.  S.  Hitchcock. 
II.  Crepis  Occidentalis  and  Its  Allies.    By  Frederick  V.  Coville. 
III.  Plants  from  the  Big  Horn  Mountains  of  Wyoming.    By  J.  N.  Rose. 
IV.  Ueibergia,  A  New  Genus  of  Umbelliferae  from  the  Columbia  River  Re- 
gion.   By  John  M.  Coulter  and  J.  N.  Rose. 
V.  Roseanthus,  a  New  Genus  of  Cuburbitaceae  from  Acapulco,  Mexico.  By 
Alfred  Cogniaux. 
In  the  first  of  these  papers  193  species  of  plants,  representing  42  natural 
orders,  and  in  the  third  84  species,  are  catalogued.  The  second,  fourth  and 
fifth  papers  are  illustrated. 
Catalogue  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin  for  1895-96.  Madison, 
Wis.,  1896. 
Annual  Announcement  for  1896-97,  Department  of  Pharmacy,  Scio 
College,  Scio,  O. 
Twenty-Fifth  Annual  Circular  of  the  National  College  of  Phar- 
macy.   Washington,  D.  C,  1896. 
Chicago  College  of  Pharmacy.  The  School  of  Pharmacy  of  the 
University  of  Illinois.    Thirty-seventh  Announcement,  1896-97. 
Prospectus  of  the  College  of  Pharmacy  of  the  City  of  New  York, 
1896-97. 
