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Current  Literature. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm 
\    January,  1915. 
work  covered  by  the  text  along  either  chemical,  economic,  sanitary, 
or  nutritional  lines. 
The  contents  of  the  book  include :  The  Principal  Constituents 
and  Functions  of  Foods;  Food  Legislation;  Milk;  Cheese  and  Mis- 
cellaneous Milk  Products  ;  Eggs  ;  Meats  and  Meat  Products ;  Poultry, 
Game,  Fish,  and  Shellfish ;  Grain  Products ;  Vegetables,  Fruits,  and 
Nuts ;  Edible  Fats  and  Oils ;  Sugars,  Syrups,  and  Confectionery ; 
Food  Adjuncts  and  Unclassified  F,ood  Materials ;  Rules  and  Regula- 
tions for  the  Enforcement  of  the  Food  and  Drugs  Act;  Food  Inspec- 
tion Decisions ;  Methods,  and  Standards  for  the  Production  and  Dis- 
tribution of  Certified  Milk;  Meat  Inspection  Law  and  Regulations; 
and  a  Table  of  ioo-Calorie  Portions. 
Year-Book  of  Pharmacy,  comprising  Abstracts  of  Papers  Relat- 
ing to  Pharmacy,  Materia  Medica,  and  Chemistry.  Contributed  to 
British  and  Foreign  Journals.  From  July  I,  1913,  to  June  30,  1914, 
with  the  Transactions  of  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference  at 
its  Fifty-first  Annual  Meeting,  held  in  Chester,  July  20-23,  1914. 
The  Year-Book  of  Pharmacy  constitutes  one  of  the  very  best 
works  of  reference  on  pharmacy.  The  abstracts  are  concise  and  con- 
tain the  salient  features  of  the  various  research  papers.  The  volume 
also  contains  the  scientific  papers  presented  to  the  British  Pharma- 
ceutical Conference  at  the  meeting  in  1914.  To  the  student  and 
research  worker  this  volume  is  indispensable  as  a  reference  book. 
The  work  is  supplemented  with  a  very  complete  index,  and  reflects 
credit  upon  J.  O.  Braithwaite,  editor  of  the  Abstracts ;  Reginald  R. 
Bennett,  editor  of  the  Transactions,  and  Thomas  Stephenson,  com- 
piler of  New  Remedies  Section. 
CURRENT  LITERATURE. 
Algal  Stalactites  in  Bermuda.1 
The  hills  of  Bermuda  are  formed  of  a  friable  limestone,  which 
represents  particles  of  calcareous  sand,  which  in  the  early  geologic 
history  of  this  group  of  islands  was  drifted  by  the  wind  into  elevated 
dunes  and  afterwards  by  water  action  was  compacted  into  a  harder, 
or  a  softer,  lime  rock.   This  native  rock  is  sawed  out  of  the  hillsides 
1John  W.  Harshberger,  in  Torreya,  October,  1914. 
