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Reviews. 
Jour.  Pbarm. 
June,  1893. 
chemistry,  with  special  reference  to  students  of  pharmacy  and  medicine.  We 
are  glad  to  observe  that  a  special  feature  of  this  manual,  to  which  we  called 
attention  nine  years  ago,  has  met  with  general  favor,  and  has  been  retained  in 
the  edition  before  us.  We  refer  to  the  plates  showing  56  representations  of 
the  exact  colors  or  change  of  colors  of  characteristic  reactions,  which  are 
appreciated  not  only  by  the  tyro.  Mainly  because  in  the  new  United  States 
Pharmacopoeia  the  system  of  orthography  and  nomenclature  of  chemical  com- 
pounds recently  proposed  (see  April  number,  p.  179),  has  not  been  adopted, 
the  author  also  adheres  to  the  system  thus  far  in  use,  it  being  considered 
unwise  to  have  the  student  confronted  by  two  different  systems  of  orthography. 
There  is  much  force  in  this  argument,  as  we  know  from  personal  experience  ; 
for  though  we  have  advocated  some  of  these  changes  years  ago,  we  have  been 
using  them  in  print  only  to  a  very  limited  extent,  for  reasons  similar  to  the  one 
stated.  Yet  an  effort  should  be  made  for  the  general  adoption  of  the  rules  by 
journals  and  text-books  ;  uncertainties,  which  might  be  arising  from  the  per- 
fectly proper  conservative  course  pursued  by  the  Pharmacopoeia  and  similar 
works,  would  then  easily  be  set  aright. 
Missouri  Botanical  Garden. — Fourth  annual  Report.  St.  Louis,  Mo.:  pub- 
lished by  the  Board  of  Trustees.    1893.    8vo.    Pp.  226  and  23  plates. 
The  handsome  volume  contains  various  reports,  addresses,  etc.,  relating  to 
Shaw's  garden,  and  two  valuable  scientific  papers,  one  of  which  on  Yucca,  by 
Professor  Trelease,  was  noticed  on  p.  206  of  our  April  number.  The  other 
paper  is  a  list  of  plants  collected  in  the  Bahamas,  Jamaica  and  Grand  Cayman, 
by  Professor  A.  L.  Hitchcock.  Seven  of  the  Bahama  Islands  were  visited,  and 
four  parts  of  Jamaica.  The  total  number  of  species  determined  is  953,  to 
which  are  to  be  added  the  varieties  and  the  cultivated  species.  The  list  gives 
the  localities  of  collection,  and  is  accompanied  by  remarks  on  nomenclature 
and  on  the  relation  of  the  flora  of  the  Bahamas  ;  also  by  a  tabular  exhibition  of 
the  plants  collected,  showing  their  distribution  in  the  islands  visited,  and  in 
other  localities  of  the  western  hemisphere.  A  full  index  of  genera,  including 
the  synonyms  renders  the  list  very  available  for  reference. 
J.  L.  Soubeiran,  decede  le  15  decembre,  1892.    Montpellier.    8vo.    Pp.  20. 
The  pamphlet  contains  the  discourses  pronounced  in  the  ecole  de  pharmacie 
on  the  occasion  of  the  funeral  services  ;  also  a  list  of  the  publications  by  the 
deceased  savant,  the  titles  of  the  essays  and  books  occupying  nine  pages  in 
print. 
Promenades  et  Excursions  botaniques  faites  en  1891  dans  les  environs  de 
Besancon,  le  Doubs  et  les  Vosges.  Compte-rendu  par  Menelik.  Besancon. 
1893.    Pp.  35. 
These  botanical  excursions,  undertaken  under  the  guidance  of  Professor  Dr. 
A.  Magnin,  of  the  Besancon  School  of  Medicine  and  Pharmacy,  are  quite  enter- 
tainingly and  humorously  described  by  the  author  ;  as  far  as  the  plants  collected 
are  concerned,  the  names  of  the  more  interesting  or  rarer  species  only  are 
given. 
Experiments  with  Sugar  Beets  in  i8g2.  By  Harvey  W.  Wiley,  chemist  of 
the  U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture  and  Director  of  the  Department  Sugar 
Experiment  Stations,  at  Schuyler,  Nebr.,  Runnymede,  Fla.,  and  Sterling  and 
Medicine  Lodge,  Kan.    Washington.    1893.    Pp.  74. 
