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-occurring  in  these  physical  characters  during  a  period  of  about  four  months 
are  given  in  tabular  form.  After  noting  the  qualitative  tests,  the  various  pro- 
cesses recommended  for  the  quantitative  determination  of  the  morbid  constitu- 
ents are  described,  and  these  are  further  characterized  by  determining  and 
estimating  for  the  fats  the  different  fat  acids,  for  the  albuminoids  the  globulin, 
myosin,  urocasein,  mucin,  serin,  paralbumin,  hemialbumin,  hemialbuminose, 
peptones,  etc.  Other  constituents,  like  cholesterin,  lecithin,  etc.,  have  not 
been  neglected.  Chapter  III  is  devoted  to  the  microscopic  examination  of 
these  urines,  the  different  animalculse,  in  some  cases  with  their  ova,  observed 
in  different  countries,  being  described  and  illustrated  upon  four  plates.  The 
last  two  chapters  discuss  the  diagnosis,  prognosis  and  pathogenesis  of  chyluria. 
The  importance  of  the  work  will  readily  be  seen  from  the  above  brief  analysis 
of  its  contents,  particularly  when  it  is  considered,  that  the  literature  on  the 
subject  has  been  well  utilized,  and  supplemented  by  many  observations  and 
researches  made  by  the  author. 
Chemical  Papers  from  the  Research  Laboratory,  Pharmaceutical  Societ3r  of 
Great  Britain.  Edited  by  Wyndham  R.  Dunstan,  M.A.,  Professor  of  Chemistry 
to  the  Pharmaceutical  Laboratory  and  Director  of  the  Research  Laboratory. 
Vol.  I.    London,  1892.    8vo.    Pp.  232. 
The  volume  contains  reprints  of  papers  which  have  been  previously  reported 
to  the  Pharmaceutical  Society,  Royal  Society,  Chemical  Society  and  Physical 
Society,  and  which  describe  the  results  of  the  chief  chemical  investigations 
carried  on  in  the  research  laboratory  during  the  preceding  three  years.  The 
experimental  work  in  six  of  the  papers  had  not  been  made  at  the  same  labora- 
tory ;  but  the  inquiries  described — medical,  crystallographical,  botanical,  etc. — 
were  suggested  by  the  chemical  investigations,  and  the  two  series  of  the  papers 
had  been  published  simultaneously.  A  number  of  these  papers  have  been 
transferred,  wholly  or  in  abstract,  to  previous  volumes  of  this  journal. 
Proceedings  of  the  ninth  annual  convention  of  the  Association  of  Official 
Agricultural  Chemists,  held  at  the  National  Museum,  Washington,  D.  C, 
August  25-27,  1892.  Edited  by  Harvey  W.  Wiley,  Secretary  of  the  Associa- 
tion. Published  by  authority  of  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture.  Washington  : 
Government  Printing  Office.    1892.    8vo.    Pp.  xvii  and  243. 
This  is  Bulletin  No.  35  of  the  Division  of  Chemistry,  U.  S.  Department  of 
Agriculture. 
Proceedings  of  the  National  Wholesale  Druggists'  Association  in  convention 
at  Montreal,  Canada,  Windsor  Hotel,  September  19-22,  1892.  Minneapolis  : 
L.  Kimball  Printing  Company.    1892.    8vo.    Pp.  319. 
The  frontispiece  of  the  volume  is  the  phototype  portrait  of  J.  E.  Davis,  of 
Detroit,  president  for  the  current  }Tear. 
Carl  Wilhehn  Scheele,  Pharmacist  and  Chemist.  A  brief  account  of  his  life 
and  work.    London,  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain.    1893.    Pp.  24. 
Reprint  from  the  Pharmaceutical  Journal  of  January  14. 
Annus  Pharmaceutics .    1891.    Pp.  48. 
Annus  Pharmaceutics.    1892.    Pp.  48. 
The  two  pamphlets  which  are  reprints  from  the  Pharmaceutical  Journal  of 
January  2  and  of  December  31,  1892,  give  brief  reviews  of  pharmaceutical 
matters  and  work  done  during  the  years  stated  in  Great  Britain  and  elsewhere. 
