350 
Reviews,  etc. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1884. 
Socieie  des  Pharmaciens  de  VEure.  Bulletin  No.  10.  Compte-rendu  des 
Sceances  des  29  Avril  et  30  Septembre,  1883.  Evreux  :  E.  Quettier.  Pp.  86. 
Besides  the  proceedings  of  the  Society  and  several  reports,  the  pamphlet 
contains  investigations  on  commercial  extracts  of  cinchona,  belladonna, 
and  conium,  by  Lepage;  on  the  coloring  matter  of  wines,  by  Pinchon  ;  on 
the  estimation  of  potassa  and  soda  in  mixtures,  by  Pinchon  ;  and  on 
arsenical  compounds,  by  C.  Patrouillard. 
New  York  State  Medical  Association  ;  founded,  February,  1884.    Pp.  43. 
This  pamphlet  contains  the  minutes  of  a  convention  held  in  the  city  of 
Albany,  February  4  and  6,  1S84,  at  which  the  New  York  State  Medical 
Association  was  organized  on  a  permanent  basis  by  physicians  who  adhere 
to  the  code  of  ethics  of  the  American  Medical  Association. 
The  Recent  Advances  of  Sanitary  Science.  The  Relation  of  Micro-organ- 
isms to  Disease.  By  Henry  O.  Marcy,  A.  M.,  M.  D.,  President  of  the 
American  Academy  of  Medicine,  etc. 
An  address,  full  of  interest,  delivered  before  the  Academy  at  its  last 
annual  meeting  at  New  York,  October  10,  1883. 
The  Studenfs  Ghrammar  of  Latin,  for  the  First  Instruction  in  the  Funda- 
mental Rules  of  Latin,  with  the  Correct  Roman  or  Continental  Pronun- 
ciation.   By  A.  F.  W.  Neynaber,  Sr.,  Detroit,  Mich. 
A  little  pamphlet  of  32  pages,  containing  the  rules  for  Latin  declension 
and  conjugation,  with  the  Latin  names  for  weights  and  measures,  the 
Pharmacopceial  titles  of  medicines  with  the  genitive  case,  numerals,  and 
other  words  used  in  prescriptions. 
Report  of  the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy  to  the  General  Assembly  of  Ken- 
tucky, "February  25,  1884.    Frankfort,  Ky. 
The  Board  recommends  that  the  clause  of  the  pharmacy  law,  permitting 
the  registration  of  "Graduates  in  Pharmacy"  without  examination,  be 
expunged,  or  if  retained  that  graduates  be  defined  to  be  those  coming  from 
institutions  requiring  an  apprenticeship  of  at  least  three  years  as  a  condi- 
tion for  graduation.  The  Board  further  recommends  that  the  provisions  of 
the  law  be  extended  to  all  towns  and  cities  of  the  State,  and  that  they 
not  apply  to  any  practitioner  of  medicine  "dispensing  the  medicines 
needed  in  his  practice,"  the  last  seven  words  to  be  added  as  an  amend- 
ment. 
The  Annual  Report  of  the  Pharmacy  Board  of  Victoria.  Melbourne, 
1884. 
The  Board  reports  two  convictions  during  the  preceding  year  under  the 
Pharmacy  Act  of  1876  ;  one  person  sought  to  evade  the  law  by  styling  him- 
self "Botanic"  druggist,  and  a  chemist  retired  from  business  was  practic- 
ing medicine  and  surgery.  The  qualifications  before  being  eligible  ior  the 
major  examination  are  :  having  served  for  not  less  than  four  years  as  an 
apprentice  in  the  business  of  a  registered  pharmaceutical  chemist,  or  chem- 
ist and  druggist,  or  homoeopathic  chemist,  and  attended  one  course  of  lec- 
tures, and  passed  examinations  in  each  of  the  following  subjects  at  the 
University  of  Melbourne,  or  some  school  or  college  of  pharmacy  recog- 
nized by  the  Board — Materia  medica,  medical  botany  and  practical  chem- 
