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fully  comply  with  the  request  of  stating  that  the  Secretary,  Dr.  Benjamin  I,ee, 
Philadelphia,  will  forward  them  to  any  applicant  on  the  receipt  of  a  two-cent 
postage  stamp.  The  circulars  are  enclosed  in  a  substantial  envelope,  in  which 
they  can  be  preserved  for  reference  in  case  of  emergency.  The  circulars 
received  relate  to  the  care  of  infants,  to  school  hygiene  and  to  precautions 
against  typhoid  fever,  scarlet  fever,  consumption  and  against  contagious  and 
infectious  diseases  in  general. 
REVIEWS  AND.  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Bulletins  of  the  U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture.  1890. 
We  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  Bulletin  No.  26,  Division  of  Chemistry,  con- 
taining a  record  of  experiments  in  the  production  of  sugar  from  sorghum,  in 
1889,  in  Iowa,  New  Jersey,  Virginia,  Louisiana,  Maryland  and  Kansas.  The 
author  of  the  report  is  the  chief  chemist,  H.  W.  Wiley. 
Also,  from  the  Division  of  Botany,  the  first  number  of  the  Contributions  from 
the  U.  S.  National  Herbarium,  containing  lists  of  plants  collected  by  Dr.  Edward 
Palmer  in  different  parts  of  Southern  California,  and  the  country  adjacent 
thereto.  The  names  of  the  species  are  usually  accompanied  by  critical  remarks. 
We  learn  that  the  National  Herbarium  has  assumed  such  large  proportions  and 
is  being  so  rapidly  augmented  by  the  botanical  investigations  which  are  being 
prosecuted,  that  it  becomes  important  to  have  a  medium  through  which  the 
results  of  the  investigations  ma}'  be  brought  to  the  notice  of  botanists.  These 
contributions  are  edited  by  Dr.  George  Vasey,  the  Chief  of  the  Division  of 
Botany.  " 
Experimental  Farms.    Reports  for  1889.    Ottawa :    1890.    pp.  152. 
An  annual  report  made  to  the  Minister  of  Agriculture  by  the  Director,  Prof. 
Wm.  Saunders,  and  accompanied  by  the  reports  of  various  officers  of  the 
different  Canadian  experimental  farms. 
Seventh  Annual  Report  of  the  Board  of  Control  of  the  State  Agricultural 
Experiment  Station  at  Amherst,  Mass.,  7889.    Boston:    1890.  pp.333. 
An  annual  report  made  by  Dr.  C.  A.  Goessmann  to  the  Board  of  Control,  and 
including  the  reports  of  the  physiologist  and  of  the  various  assistants. 
Report  of  the  Department  of  Health  of  the  City  of  Chicago  for  the  Year  1889, 
Svo.    pp.  140. 
In  addition  to  the  matter  usually  found  in  such  reports,  the  one  before  us 
contains,  also,  considerable  statistical  information,  notably  on  labor  and  indus- 
try. The  following  will  be  of  special  interest  to  our  readers  :  In  1889,  there 
were  in  Chicago  71  firms  engaged  as  wholesale  druggists  or  manufacturers, 
employing  850  persons,  of  whom  J75  were  females.  The  number  of  firms 
engaged  as  retail  druggists  was  475,  with  1,075  employes,  of  whom  25  were 
females.  There  were  1,650  medical  firms,  and  with  these  1,700  males  and  50 
females  were  connected.    In  addition,  there  were  90  veterinary  surgeons. 
Strophantus  Hispidus,  its  natural  history,  chemistry  and  pharmacology. 
Part  1.  Natural  history  and  chemistry.  By  Thomas  R.  Fraser,  M.D.,  etc., 
Professor  of  materia  medica  in  the  University  of  Edinburgh,    pp.  75. 
This  essay  is  a  most  valuable  contribution  to  the  history  of  strophanthus  as 
