Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  \  Rwipnoi  c  ifA 
March.  1891.     J  IS.eVieWS.lL  I  59 
next  meeting  will  be  held  in  Ann  Arbor,  in  October  next,  the  date  to  be  fixed 
by  the  Executive  Committee. 
Proceedings  of  the  National  Wholesale  Druggists"  Association,  in  conven- 
tion at  the  Arlington  Hotel,  Washington,  D.  C,  Sept.  29  to  Oct.  3,  1890. 
Pp.  271. 
The  next  meeting  will  take  place  in  Louisville,  at  a  date  to  be  fixed  by  the 
Committee  on  Entertainment.  Daniel  Stewart,  Indianapolis,  is  president  ;  A. 
B.  Merriam,  Minneapolis,  secretary,  and  S.  M.  Strong,  Cleveland,  treasurer  for 
the  present  year. 
Commentar  zum  Arzneibuch fur  das  deutsche  Reich  (Pharmacopoea  Germa- 
nica,  Bditio  III).  Von  Dr.  Bruno  Hirsch  und  Dr.  Alfred  Schneider,  Gottingen. 
Vandenhoeck  &  Ruprecht. 
Commentary  to  the  German  Pharmacopoeia,  etc. 
In  our  December  number  we  have  noticed  the  appearance  of  the  first  two 
fascicles  of  this  excellent  commentary  ;  we  have  now  before  us  six  additional 
issues,  pages  129  to  448,  which  bring  the  work  to  menthol um  in  the  same  com- 
mendable manner  as  indicated  in  our  previous  notice. 
Recherches  sur  le  Strongle  Paradoxal.  These,  etc.,  par  Marie-Eugene 
Daniel.    4to.    Pp.  51. 
Contribution  aV etude  anatomique  des  Polygalacees.  These,  etc.,  par  Charles 
Jules  Feuilloux.    4to.    Pp.  43. 
Two  theses  from  the  Paris  Ecole  Superieure  de  Pharmacie  for  the  diploma  of 
pharmacien  of  the  first  class.  The  former  is  a  monograph  of  the  paradoxal 
strongylus,  a  worm  which  has  been  repeatedly  observed  in  man,  and  which, 
besides  other  names,  is  known  as  St.  longevaginatus,  Diesing.  The  other 
thesis  treats  of  the  anatomy  of  five  commercial  varieties  of  krameria,  and  of 
three  species  of  polygala,  including  senega  root,  and  four  impurities  and  adul- 
terations of  this  drug.  Both  works  are  illustrated  with  cuts  representing  the 
microscopical  structure  of  the  objects  under  investigation. 
Heredity,  Health  and  Personal  Beauty.  By  John  V.  Shoemaker,  A.M., 
M.D.,  Professor  of  Materia  Medica,  Pharmacology,  Therapeutics  and  Clinical 
Medicine  and  Clinical  Professor  of  Diseases  of  the  Skin  in  the  Medico- 
Chirurgical  College  of  Philadelphia,  etc.  Philadelphia  and  London  :  F.  A. 
Davis,  Publisher.  1890.  8vo.  Pp.  422.  Price,  cloth,  $2.50  ;  half  morocco, 
$3-50. 
In  the  introduction  we  are  told  that  the  aim  of  the  work  was  to  impart 
some  information  strictly  limited  to  the  non-scientific  world.  Yet  the  author 
has  found  it  necessary  to  take  notice  of  several  recent  essays  in  regard  to 
the  inheritable  effects  of  the  use  and  disuse  of  vital  parts  by  an  organism, 
and  in  relation  to  the  heredity  of  congenital  characters  and  of  acquired  char- 
acters. Several  statements,  and  more  especially  conclusions  arrived  at  in 
a  work  by  August  Weismann  on  "  Heredity  and  Kindred  Biological  Problems," 
are  frankly  criticised,  the  author  expressing  his  views,  in  connection  with 
the  subject-matter  of  his  work,  by  stating  that  "  If  men  and  women  did  not 
mate  for  love  and  money  and  a  thousand  other  motives  than  with  reference 
to  the  qualities  of  their  descendants,  but,  like  the  domesticated  animals, 
were  bred  for  various  qualities,  we  could  make  great  musicians,  painters, 
