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Book  Reviews. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharni. 
\   February,  1915. 
513  pages,  306  of  which  are  devoted  to  abstracts  of  articles  of 
pharmaceutical  interest  prepared  by  the  editor,  J.  B.  Braithwaite, 
and  conveniently  arranged  under  the  general  headings  Chemistry  and 
Materia  Medica.  The  articles  under  the  former  heading  are  further 
subdivided  under:  Alkaloids,  Animal  Products,  Clinical  Tests,  Col- 
oring Matters,  Essential  Oils,  Fats,  Fixed  Oils  and  Waxes,  Gluco- 
sides,  Sugars  and  Ferments,  Gums,  Oleoresins,  and  Resins,  Inorganic 
Chemistry,  Organic  Chemistry:  Unclassified,  and  Plant  Analysis. 
Under  Materia  Medica  we  find  the  headings :  New  Remedies,  New 
Applications  of  Remedies,  Pharmacognosy,  Dispensing,  Galenical 
Pharmacy,  Pharmacopoeia  Revision  Notes,  and  Notes  and  Formulae. 
The  report  of  the  Transactions  of  the  British  Pharmaceutical 
Conference  occupies  142  pages,  and  the  book  is  further  made  avail- 
able for  references  by  a  double-column  index  of  38  pages.  Alto- 
gether it  is  a  creditable  addition  to  the  stately  array  of  Year-Books 
published  by  our  British  confreres,  and  as  a  reference  book  will  be 
much  appreciated  by  pharmacists  throughout  the  world. 
M.  I.  W. 
Units  of  Weight  and  Measure.  Definitions  and  Tables  of 
Equivalents.  Circular  of  the  Bureau  of  Standards  No.  47,  Depart- 
ment of  Commerce,  Washington,  Government  Printing  Office,  1914. 
As  its  name  suggests,  this  large  octavo  circular  of  68  pages  in- 
cludes definitions  of  all  fundamental  units,  with  the  most  common 
multiples  and  submultiples ;  also  a  section  calling  attention  to  the 
distinction  between  the  units  of  weight  and  measure  and  the  standard 
weights  and  measures.  The  greater  portion  of  the  circular  is  devoted 
to  tables  giving  the  interrelation  of  all  of  the  units  and  the  funda- 
mental equivalents  from  1  to  999  units.  A  summary  of  the  present 
status  of  the  international  metric  system  of  the  United  States  is 
appended.  M.  I.  W. 
Goldenseal  Under  Cultivation.  By  Walter  Van  Fleet,  Physi- 
ologist, Drug-Plant  and  Poisonous-Plant  Investigations,  United 
States  Department  of  Agriculture.    Farmers'  Bulletin  613. 
This  pamphlet  of  15  printed  pages  constitutes  a  valuable  con- 
tribution to  the  literature  relating  to  the  cultivation  of  drug  plants. 
The  pamphlet  includes  an  illustrated  description  of  the  goldenseal 
plant,  a  discussion  of  its  propagation,  both  by  root  bud  propagation 
