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(   February,  1915. 
Annual  Report  of  the  Surgeon  General  of  the  Public 
Health  Service  of  the  United  States  for  the  Fiscal  Year  1914. 
Washington,  Government  Printing  Office,  1914. 
This  volume  of  357  pages  embodies  a  comprehensive  report  on 
the  many  and  varied  operations  of  the  United  States  Public  Health 
Service.  The  administrative  supervision  of  the  work  of  this  service 
is  conducted  through  the  seven  divisions  of  the  Bureau,  as  follows : 
(1)  Scientific  research  and  sanitation.  (2)  Foreign  and  insular 
quarantine  and  immigration.  (3)  Domestic  (interstate)  quaran- 
tine. (4)  Sanitary  reports  and  statistics.  (5)  Marine  hospitals  and 
relief.    (6)  Personnel  and  accounts.    (7)  Miscellaneous. 
At  the  close  of  the  fiscal  year  there  were  on  duty  in  the  Public 
Health  Service  46  pharmacists,  as  follows :  Pharmacists  of  the  first 
class,  16;  pharmacists  of  the  second  class,  24;  pharmacists  of  the- 
third  class,  5. 
Much  of  the  work  that  is  of  direct  interest  to  pharmacists  is  done 
in  connection  with  the  Hygienic  Laboratory,  which  comes  under  the 
supervision  of  the  Division  of  Scientific  Research  and  Sanitation. 
In  the  Division  of  Pharmacology  of  the  Hygienic  Laboratory  con- 
siderable work  has  been  done  on  the  standardization  of  drugs  and 
the  study  of  the  action  and  pharmacological  properties  of  drugs 
Among  the  publications  from  this  division  are  the  Digest  of  Com- 
ments on  the  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United  States  and  on  the 
National  Formulary,  and  the  Digest  of  Laws  and  Regulations  Re- 
lating to  the  Possession,  Use,  Sale,  and  Manufacture  of  Poisons  and 
Habit-forming  Drugs.  The  publication  of  a  number  of  articles  on 
the  chemistry,  pharmacy,  and  pharmacology  of  drugs  and  related 
materials  is  also  noted.  In  general,  one  is  impressed  by  the  fact 
that  pharmacy  and  subjects  more  directly  related  to  the  practice  of 
pharmacy  are  receiving  increasing  attention  in  work  that  is  directly 
of  public  health  interest.  M.  I.  W. 
Hygienic  Laboratory  Bulletin  No.  98.  Digest  of  Comments 
on  the  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United  States  of  America  (Eighth 
Decennial  Revision)  and  on  the  National  Formulary  (Third  Edi- 
tion). For  the  Calendar  Year  Ending  December"  31,  1913.  By 
Murray  Gait  Motter  and  Martin  I.  Wilbert.  Washington,  Govern- 
ment Printing  Office,  November,  1914. 
This  is  the  ninth  bulletin  of  the  present  series  of  Digests  of 
Comments,  and  represents  a  comprehensive  reflection  of  the  liter- 
