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Reviews. 
(  ^m.  Jour.  Pbarm. 
\        Jan.,  1893. 
to  pharmacy  published  during  the  preceding  year.  The  next  annual  meeting 
will  be  held  at  New  Haven,  on  the  first  Tuesday  of  February;  John  W.  Lowe, 
local  secretary  ;  Fred.  Wilcox,  Waterbury,  permanent  secretary. 
Minnesota. — Eighth  annual  meeting,  held  at  Duluth,  July  13  and  14,  1892- 
Pp.  92. 
A  brief  account  of  the  transactions  of  this  meeting  was  published  on  p. 
499  of  our  last  volume.  The  time  and  place  for  holding  the  next  annual  meet- 
ing has  not  yet  been  announced.    The  secretary  is  C.  T.  Heller,  St.  Paul. 
Washington. — Third  annual  meeting,  held  at  Seattle,  May  9  to  II,  1892. 
Pp.  56. 
A  brief  report  of  this  meeting  will  be  found  on  p.  387  of  pur  last  volume. 
The  Association  will  meet  again  in  Spokane,  on  the  second  Monday  of  May 
next.    W.  B.  Shaw,  Seattle,  is  secretary. 
Wisconsin. — Thirteenth  annual  meeting,  held  at  Oshkosh,  August  9  to  11, 
1892,  pp.  108;  and  Report  of  the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy,  pp.  40. 
On  p.  500  of  our  last  volume,  a  notice  of  this  meeting  will  be  found.  In 
addition  to  a  number  of  practical  papers  read,  the  pamphlet  contains  also 
theses  from  the  School  of  Pharmacy  of  the  University  of  Minnesota.  The  next 
meeting  will  convene  at  Fond  du  Lac,  August  8  ;  Jas.  T.  Dana,  local  secretary; 
E.  B.  Heimstreet,  Janesville,  permanent  secretary. 
Pharmakognosie. — Ein  Lehr-  und  Handbuch  fur  Studierende,  Apotheker, 
Drogisten,  Sanitatsbeamte  und  Aerzte.  Von  Dr.  August  Vogl,  Hofrath  und 
Universitats-Professor.    Wien,  Carl  Gerold's  Sohn.    1892.    8vo.    Pp.  694. 
Pharmacognosy  ;  a  text-book  and  manual  for  students,  apothecaries,  drug- 
gists, sanitary  officers  and  physicians.    Price,  in  paper,  20  marks. 
The  author,  who  is  well  known  for  his  pharmacognostical  labors,  has  pro- 
duced a  very  comprehensive  work,  which  deserves  also  to  be  known  and  con- 
sulted on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic,  since  it  does  not  confine  itself  to  the 
pharmacopoeial  drugs  of  Austria,  but  takes  into  consideration  also  most  of 
those  which  are  employed  in  the  United  States  ;  and  because  it  enters  fully 
into  the  structural  characteristics  of  the  drugs  described. 
The  descriptions  of  the  small  number  of  drugs  obtained  from  the  animal 
kingdom  occupy  about  twenty  pages,  and  considerably  less  space  is  required 
for  the  few  drugs  derived  from  the  mineral  kingdom  ;  but  about  500  pages  are 
required  for  the  vegetable  drugs. 
The  latter  are  considered  under  three  distinct  divisions,  of  which  the  first 
comprises  those  that  are  readily  recognized  as  plants  or  parts  of  plants.  The 
drugs  of  this  division  are  systematically  arranged  into  twelve  groups,  as 
follows  :  Fungi,  lichens,  algse,  herbs  (including  fronds  of  ferns  and  twigs), 
leaves  and  leaflets,  leaf  buds,  flowers  and  parts  of  flowers,  fruits,  seeds,  over- 
ground axes  and  parts  of  axes  (barks,  stems  and  woods),  subterranean  parts, 
and  finally  excrescences  (galls).  The  arrangement  of  the  drugs  not  containing 
reproductive  organs  is  effected  from  structural  characteristics,  namely,  the 
leaves  from  the  nature  of  the  nervation  and  the  character  of  the  margin  ;  the 
fruits  from  the  nature  of  the  union  or  the  development  of  different  parts  ;  the 
seeds  from  the  presence  or  absence  of  albumen  ;  the  roots  and  rhizomes  from 
the  arrangement  of  the  fibrovascular  tissue,  etc.    It  will  be  seen  that  as  far  as 
