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one  haviDg  been  assigned  to  a  special  reporter:  Soil,  water,  atmosphere, 
the  plant  (ashes,  germination,  assimilation,  external  influences,  cultiva- 
tion, etc.),  plant  diseases,  manure,  phytochemistry  (including  proximate 
analyses),  analytical  methods,  animals  (including  food,  fodder,  excretions 
and  secretions,  nourishment,  etc.),  and  accessary  agricultural  pursuits 
(milk,  butter,  cheese,  starch  and  sugars,  fermentation,  beer,  alcohol,  oenol- 
ogy,  etc.).  The  subject,  it  will  be  observed,  is  thoroughly  covered  ;  the 
literature  has  been  exhaustively  consulted  and  the  abstracts  have  been 
made  with  good  judgment,  keeping  in  view  their  practical  utility  and  im- 
portance. 
The  Australasian  Journal  of  Pharmacij .    Published  under  the  direction 
of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Australasia.    Melbourne.  8vo. 
The  first  number  of  this  Journal,  issued  last  June,  contains  upon  22  pages 
a  large  amount  of  information  relating  to  pharmacy  in  the  colonies  of  Aus- 
tralia. It  is  intended  to  take  the  place  of  the  "Australasian  Chemist  and 
Druggist,"  the  publication  of  which  will  be  discontinued  at  the  end  of  the 
present  year.  The  American  agents  are  S.  M.  Pettengill  &  Co.,  37  Park 
Row,  New  York. 
Proceedings  of  the  Sixth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Kansas  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  held  at  Lawrence,  June  10th,  1885.    Pp.  51. 
Proceedings  of  the  Fourth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Massachusetts  State 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  held  in  Maplewood  Hall,  Pittsfield,  June  3 
and  4,  1885.    Pp.  214. 
Brief  accounts  of  these  meetings  will  be  found  on  pages  361  and  362  of 
our  July  number. 
Table  of  Metric  Weights  and  Measures.  Published  by  Robert  J.  Crocker, 
New  York. 
In  a  note  to  the  Editor  the  publisher  requests  to  notice  "  m^-  card  for  the 
conversion,  etc."  The  table  is  said  to  be  a  reprint  from  the  "Druggists' 
Circular;"  but  it  is  merely  a  copy  of  the  one  calculated  by  us  for  the 
"American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,"  and  first  published  in  the  volume  for 
1877,  page  92  ;  subsequently  also  in  the  National  Dispensatory,  1st  edition, 
p.  1561,  and  2d  edition,  p.  1648.  The  Druggists'  Circular,  June,  1877,  did 
give  proper  credit  to  the  source  from  which  the  information  was  taken,  and 
a  like  courtesy  might  be  expected  from  the  present  publisher. 
Chemical  Problems.  By  Dr.  Karl  Stammer.  Translated  from  the  second 
German  edition,  with  explanations  and  answers,  by  W.  S.  Hoskinson, 
A.M.,  Wittenberg  College,  Springfield,  O.  Philadelphia:  P.  Blakiston, 
Son  &  Co.,  18S5.    Pp.  111.    Price  75  cents. 
Stoechiometrical  calculations  by  students  are  frequently  not  practiced  to 
the  extent  commensurate  with  their  practical  importance.  The  little  work 
before  us  is  an  extensive  collection  of  problems  on  this  subject,  systemati- 
cally arranged  by  elements,  the  gradation  of  the  problems  being  from  very 
simple  to  quite  complicated  ones.  Part  second  contains  problems  on  ap- 
proximate ratios,  on  temperature  and  atmospheric  pressure,  and  such  of  a 
