Am.  jour.  Pharm.  1 
March,  1885.  J 
Reviews,  etc. 
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396  of  our  last  volume.  The  next  meeting  will  be  held  at  Sandusky,  on 
the  third  Wednesday  of  May  next,  M.  M.  Melville,  of  Sandusky,  being  the 
Assistant  Secretary. 
The  following  Reports  of  State  Boards  (Commissioners)  of  Pharmacy  for 
the  year  1883-1884  have  been  received  : 
Illinois —Fp.  78.  With  a  list  of  the  Registered  Pharmacists  and  Assist- 
ant Pharmacists;  also,  a  list  of  cases  prosecuted  during  the  year  ending 
June  30,  1884. 
Maine. — With  the  draft  of  a  law  amending  the  Pharmacy  Act  of  1877. 
West  Virginia. — Ten  Registered  Pharmacists  have  been  stricken  from 
the  register  for  unlawfully  selling  spirituous  liquors. 
Universite  de  Bruxelles.    Notice  historique  faite  a  la  demande  da  Conseil 
d^ Administration.    Par  L.  Vanderkiudere,  Professeur  a  la  Faculte  de 
Philosophie  et  Lettres.    Bruxelles  :  P.  Weissenbruch,  1884.    8vo,  pp.  440. 
The  University  of  Brussels.    Historical  Notice. 
On  November  20, 1834,  the  Free  University  of  Belgium,  since  1842  known 
as  the  Free  University  of  Brussels,  was  inaugurated.  The  handsome  vol- 
ume before  us  gives  a  full  account  of  the  work  done  during  the  fifty  years 
of  the  existence  of  the  University,  which  was  founded  by  the  liberality  of 
a  number  of  Belgian  citizens.  During  the  time  named  394  pharmacists 
completed  their  education  in  this  institution. 
One  Hundred  Yeai'S  of  Publishing.    17S5-1885.    Philadelphia:  Lea  Bros. 
&  Co. 
This  neat  publication  gives  a  succinct  history  of  the  publishing  house 
of  Mathew  Carey,  who  in  January,  1785,  commenced  issuing  "The 
Pennsylvania  Evening  Herald,"  and  in  a  few  years  added  to  this 
two  monthly  magazines  and  various  books.  His  successors,  in  1829, 
divided  the  business,  Edward  L,  Carey  taking  the  retail  business,  form- 
ing the  firm  of  Carey  &  Hart,  the  present  successors  of  which  are 
Henry  Carey,  Baird  &  Co.  The  publishing  business  was  retained  by  Carey 
&  Lea  ;  their  successors,? Lea  &  Blanchard,  between  1840  and  1850  gradually 
withdrew  fiom  publishing  works  of  fiction  and  other  books,  concentrating 
their  attention  on  works  relating  to  medicine  and  allied  sciences.  It  is 
stated  that  the  house  had  never  lost  a  partner  by  death,  all  its  members 
having  successively  withdrawn  in  season  to  enjoy  the  fruits  of  well  directed 
industry.  Two  of  the  members  of  the  present  firm,  which  was  formed  at 
the  beginning  of  the  second  century  after  the  foundation  of  the  house,  are 
descendants  of  its  founder,  Mathew  Carey. 
Flora  of  Southern  and  Lower  California.    By  Chas.  Russell  Orcott.  San 
Diego,  California  :  1885.    Pp.  13. 
This  pamphlet  is  issued  as  a  check  list  of  the  flowering  plants,  ferns  and 
other  cryptogams  of  San^Diego  County  and  the  adjacent  borders  of  Lower 
California.  The  distribution  of  the  plants  and  other  matters  of  interest 
are  indicated,  enhancing  the  value  of  this  list. 
