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ably  due  to  the  fewer  members  in  attendance  at  so  uncentral  a  point  as 
Dundee.  Our  own  experience  is  very  much  the  same  in  regard  to  the 
size  of  the  annual  volumes.  No  one  can  doubt  that  the  Conference  is 
exerting  an  ameliorating  influence  on  British  pharmaceutists  and  phar- 
macy, and  it  is  believed  that  this  influence  will  go  on  increasing.  One 
thing  about  the  arrangements  has  appeared  to  us  worthy  of  change,  and 
that  is  making  the  place  of  meeting  subject  to  the  decision  of  the  British 
Association  of  Science.  Now.it  is  difficult  to  serve  two  masters;  we 
are  all  acquainted  with  the  reasons.  If  the  more  scientific  members  of 
the  Conference  are  thus  drawn  towards  it  nominally,  whilst  they  are 
really  attracted  by  the  larger  body,  it  may  serve  a  purpose,  but  may  not 
do  as  much  good  as  to  locate  the  meetings  strictly  in  view  of  their  influ- 
ence in  advancing  purely  pharmaceutical  interests.  The  sooner  all  the 
able  men,  as  well  as  the  men  of  respectable  pharmaceutical  ability  in 
Great  Britain,  among  the  chemists  and  druggists,  can  be  brought  into 
the  ranks  with  the  pharmaceutical  chemists  the  better,  and  this  way  of 
meeting  on  a  common  ground  is  certainly  the  best  means  of  effecting  the 
desired  fusion. 
Calender  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain,  (founded 
1841,  incorporated  finally  1852).  London,  printed  for  the  Society. 
1866  ;  pp.  77,  oct. 
It  has  been  usual  with  the  Society  to  print,  with  the  July  number  of 
the  Pharmaceutical  Journal,  a  list  of  the  members.  In  lieu  of  this,  the 
Council  have  decided  to  gather  together,  in  pamphlet  form,  a  list  of  the 
official  documents,  by-laws,  etc.,  that  are  scattered  through  the  Journal, 
and  to  refer  to  which  many  volumes  have  to  be  consulted.  Besides  these, 
a  large  amount  of  information  relating  to  the  School  of  Pharmacy,  the 
examinations,  the  benevolent  fund,  the  library,  laboratory,  etc.,  which  to 
the  members  will  be  of  very  great  utility.  Among  other  matters  is  a 
chapter  entitled  "  Hints  to  Students  preparing  to  pass  the  examination 
of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society."  In  an  appendix  is  a  compend  of  all 
the  acts  of  Parliament  bearing  on  and  important  to  druggists  and 
pharmaceutists,  especially  those  relating  to  revenue  laws  and  poisons  ( 
which  will  be  a  great  help.  Something  of  this  kind  might  be  issued  by 
our  College  with  great  propriety,  and  by  including  the  revenue  and  other 
enactments,  with  the  special  matters  of  the  College,  would  be  doing  the 
members  good  service. 
A  Catalogue  of  the  Officers  and  Students  of  the  Harvard  University  for 
the  Academical  Tear  1867-68;  first  term.  Cambridge:  Sever  & 
Francis,  1867  ;  pp.  103,  18mo. 
This  is  more  than  a  catalogue,  embracing  much  information  in  refer- 
ence to  the  several  faculties  and  branches  of  this  extensive  institution, 
useful  to  those  desiring  to  enter  or  wishing  to  understand  the  working  of 
