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the  several  departments.  The  united  libraries  amount  to  176,000  vol- 
umes, and  the  students,  of  all  grades,  1020.  These  are  distributed  in  the 
regular  Collegiate  School,  the  Divinity  School,  the  Law  School,  the 
Lawrence  Scientific  School,  and  the  Medical  School. 
Address  of  George  Bentham,  Esq.,  F  R  S.,  President  ;  together  with  the 
Obituary  Notices  of  Deceased  Members  ;  by  George  Busk,  Esq.,  Sec- 
retary; read  at  the  Anniversary  Meeting  of  tli3  Linnean  Society,  on 
Friday,  May  14,  1867.  Printed  at  the  request  of  the  Fellows.  Lon- 
don, 1867;  pp.  32,  octavo. 
For  this  interesting  address  of  Mr.  Bentham  we  are  indebted  to  our 
friend  Daniel  Hanbury,  F.L.S.,  &c,  London.  After  a  few  words  on  the 
affairs  of  the  Linnean  Society,  the  address* goes  into  a  very  lucid  and  im- 
partial account  of  the  strictly  scientific  publications  of  the  United  States 
from  Colonial  times  to  the  present,  commencing  with  the  transactions  of 
the  American  Philosophical  Society,  and  ending  with  the  Smithsonian 
Institution  and  its  publications,  the  operations  of  which  are  dwelt  upon 
at  some  length  approvingly,  especially  the  system  of  international  ex- 
changes. 
An  Introduction  to  Pharmaceutical  Chemistry.  By  John  Attfield,  Ph. 
D.,  F.C.S.,  Professor  of  Practical  Chemistry  to  the  Pharmaceutical 
Society  of  Great  Britain.  London  :  John  Van  Voorst,  1867  ;  pp.  447, 
12mo. 
The  receipt  of  this  volume  from  the  author,  by  mail,  is  hereby  ac- 
knowledged. Though  too  late  for  notice  in  this  number,  we  hope  to  have 
a  notice  of  it  in  our  March  issue.  The  work  has  been  carefully  pre- 
pared by  Dr.  Attfield  for  chemical  and  pharmaceutical  students. 
Proceedings  of  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference.  Nottingham 
Meeting,  1866;  pp.111,  octavo. 
Exhibition  of  Objects  relating  to  Pharmacy,  held  at  Nottingham,  August 
1866,  during  the  meeting  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Conference;  pp.24 
octavo. 
These  pamphlets,  forwarded  to  us  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Conference 
last  year,  did  not  reach  us  until  a  few  weeks  ago,  owing  to  some  mis- 
management in  the  medium  adopted.  As,  however,  they  mainly  appeared 
in  the  Pharmaceutical  Journal,  many  of  the  papers  were  copied  and  the 
meeting  referred  to  in  due  course  in  our  pages. 
The  Physician's  Hand-Book,  for  1868.    By  William  Elmer,  M.  D.  New 
York:  W.  A.  Townsend  &  Adams,  publishers,  1868. 
This  Annual  now  makes  its  eleventh  appearance,  and  has  been  almost 
re-written.    The  preface  claims  it  as  a  new  work.    It  contains  113  pages 
of  letter  press,  and  is  addressed  both  to  regular  physicians  and  eclectics, 
