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Iowa. — Thirteenth  annual  meeting,  at  Davenport,  June  14-16, 1892.  Pp.  117. 
See  our  September  number,  p.  498.  Dr.  Rosa  Upson,  Marshalltown,  per- 
manent secretary. 
Michigan. — Tenth  annual  meeting,  at  Grand  Rapids,  August  2-4,  1892.  Pp. 
88.  See  September  number,  p.  499.  The  next  meeting  will  be  held  in  June, 
at  one  of  the  resorts  along  the  St.  Clair  River,  the  exact  date  and  place  to  be 
announced  later.    Chas.  W.  Parsons,  secretary.   James  Vernon,  local  secretary. 
Missouri. — Fourteenth  annual  meeting,  at  Excelsior  Springs,  June  14-17, 
1892.  Pp.  167.  See  September  number,  p.  499.  Next  meeting  at  the  same 
place,  June  13-16,  1893.  Dr.  H.  M.  Whelpley,  secretary  ;  C.  L.  Cravens,  Excel- 
sior Springs,  local  secretary. 
North  Dakota. — Seventh  annual  meeting,  at  Fargo,  August  2-4,  3892.  Pp. 
27.  Also  Report  of  the  Secretary  of  the  North  Dakota  State  Board  of  Pharm- 
acy. Pp.  18.  A  brief  account  of  the  meeting  will  be  found  on  p.  547  of  our 
last  volume.  Next  meeting  at  Fargo,  August  8-10,  1893.  L.  Christianson, 
secretary. 
Ohio. — Fourteenth  annual  meeting,  at  Canton,  June  14-16,  1892.  Pp.  101. 
See  July  number,  last  volume,  p.  384.  As  frontispiece  the  portraits  of  two 
deceased  ex-presidents  are  published,  J.  F.  Judge,  formerly  of  Cincinnati,  and 
I.  N.  Reed,  late  of  Toledo.  The  next  meeting  is  announced  to  be  at  Findlay, 
on  the  first  Tuesday  of  May,  1893  ;  J.  C.  Firnine,  local  secretary  ;  Lewis  C. 
Hopp,  Cleveland,  permanent  secretary. 
Virginia. — Eleventh  annual  meeting,  at  Petersburg,  October  11-13,  1892. 
Pp.  104.  The  pamphlet  has  as  frontispiece  the  portrait  of  Wm.  A.  Strother,  a 
prominent  druggist  at  Lynchburg,  who  died  in  that  city  August  1,  last,  in  the 
sixtieth  year  of  his  age.  The  Association  will  hold  its  next  meeting  at  Blue 
Ridge  Springs,  commencing  September  12,  next.  The  officers  are  F.  W. 
Wills,  Charlottesville,  president  ;  C.  B.  Fleet,  Lynchburg,  secretary ;  C.  H. 
Lumsden,  Lynchburg,  treasurer  ;  S.  P.  Christian,  Jr.,  Roanoke,  local  secretary. 
Manuale  di  Chimica  Tossicologica,  pel  Professor  Dioscoride  Vitali,  Professore 
di  Chimica  farmaceutica  e  tossicologica  nella  R.  Universita  di  Bologna. 
Milano  :    Tipografia  del  Riformatoria  Patronato.    1893.    8vo.    Pp.  524. 
Manual  of  toxicological  chemistry. 
In  the  preliminary  portion  to  this  work  the  author  gives  upon  more  than  two 
closely  printed  pages  the  titles  of  works,  monographs  and  periodicals  con- 
sulted by  him,  showing  that  he  has  endeavored  to  avail  himself  of  the 
researches  of  all  civilized  countries.  The  prefatory  chapter  explains  the  object 
of  the  work  and  shows  the  importance  of  toxicology  as  a  science,  related  to 
therapeutics,  physiology  and  pathological  anatomy,  as  well  as  to  analytical 
chemistry,  of  which  chemical  toxicology  forms  a  most  important  branch,  to 
which  this  manual  is  especially  devoted.  The  work  proper  is  divided  into 
four  parts,  of  which  the  first  treats  of  poisons  in  general,  their  absorption,  the 
changes  they  undergo  in  the  body,  their  localization  and  elimination,  first  aids 
in  cases  of  poisoning,  the  chemical  antidotes,  the  duties  of  the  chemical 
expert  under  the  laws  of  Italy,  and  the  classification  of  the  poisons  into 
groups,  according  to  their  toxic  action.  The  second  part  is  taken  up  with  the 
metallic  poisons,  arsenic,  antimony,  tin,  copper,  lead,  zinc,  mercury  and  silver, 
