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f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
1       July,  1884. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Proceedings  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  the  Thirty-first 
Annual  Meeting,  held  at  Washington,  D.  C,  September,  1883.  Phila- 
delphia :  Published  by  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  1884. 
8vo.    Pp.  577.    Price,  in  paper,  $5 ;  bound,  $5.50. 
After  many  vexatious  delays,  the  printing  and  binding  of  this  volume 
has  sufficiently  advanced  to  announce  its  distribution  during  the  second 
week  of  July.  In  arrangement,  etc.,  it  resembles  the  preceding  volumes, 
the  first  306  pages  being  filled  with  the  report  on  the  progress  of  pharmacy, 
and  this  is  illustrated  with  a  number  of  wood-cuts.  The  volume  is  embel- 
lished with  the  portrait  of  the  late  Dr.  Wm.  Neergaard,  of  New  York. 
Orundriss  cler  Pharmakognosie.   Von  F.  A.  Fluekiger.   Berlin  :  R.  Gaert- 
ner's  Verlagsbuchhandlung,  1884.    Pp.  260. 
Outlines  of  Pharmacognosy. 
As  the  title  indicates,  this  little  work  is  intended  to  give  the  outlines  of 
descriptive  materia  medica  only ;  as  such,  it  is  admirably  adapted  for  a 
text-book  for  pharmaceutical  students,  and  at  the  same  time  the  descrip- 
tions are  sufficiently  full  to  serve  as  a  guide  also  for  others  interested  in 
this  subject.  In  his  classical  work  entitled  "Pharmakognosie  des  Pflan- 
zenreiches,"  the  author  has  classified  the  drugs  from  morphological,  and 
partly  also  from  chemical  characters ,  in  the  Outlines,  however,  the  natu- 
ral system  of  botany  is  followed,  as  being  more  advantageous  and  inciting, 
and  less  tedious.  In  this  respect' opinions  are  much  at  variance.  Botanical 
classification  is  doubtless  the  only  proper  one  for  the  study  of  medical  or 
pharmaceutical  botany  ;  but  it  appears  to  us  that  for  the  systematic  study 
of  parts  of  plants  not  accompanied  by  the  organs  essential  for  botanical 
classification,  the  morphological  characters  serve  a  better  purpose,  at  least 
for  comparison  with  the  same  parts  of  other  plants  having  a  similar  appear- 
ance. The  work  is  written  in  that  clear  and  entertaining  style,  for  which 
the  author  is  noted,  and  is  a  most  valuable  addition  to  pharmaceutical 
literature. 
Twentieth  Annual  Report  of  the  Alumni  Association,  with  the  exercises  of 
the  Sixty-third  Commencement  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
for  the  year  1883-84.    8vo.    Pp.  156. 
In  addition  to  what  may  be  gleaned  from  the  title  page,  the  pamphlet 
contains  also  the  addresses  and  lectures  delivered  at  the  five  social  meetings 
of  the  Alumni  Association,  the  twentieth  anniversary  of  whose  organization 
accurs  on  the  15th  of  July  this  year. 
Address  on  Practical  Medicine.    By  John  V.  Shoemaker,  A.M.,  M.D. 
Delivered  before  the  American  Medical  Association  May  7,  1884. 
How  to  Grow  Fine  Celery.    A  new  method  by  Mrs.  H.  M.  Crider,  York, 
Pa.    1844.    Price  25  cents. 
