*MMin;iP873"M'}  Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notices.  143 
EE  VIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Year-Booh  of  Pharmacy,  comprising  Abstracts  of  Papers  relating  to  Pharmacy, 
Materia  Medica  and  Chemistry,  contributed  to  British  and  Foreign  Journals 
from  July  1.  1871,  to  June  30,  1872.  With  the  Transactions  of  the  British 
Pharmaceutical  Conference  at  the  Ninth  Annual  Meeting,  held  at  Brighton, 
August,  1872.  London:  John  Churchill  &  Sons,  1872.  8vo,  676  pages, 
exclusive  of  advertisements. 
This  annual  publication  comes  to  us  in  its  usual  attractive  style,  its  pages 
filled  with  matters  of  interest  to  the  pharmacist.  The  first  400  pages  are 
devoted  to  the  "Year-Book,"  or,  as  it  is  termed  by  our  national  association, 
the  "Report  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy,''  which  is  introduced  with  a  review 
— covering  12  pages — of  the  more  important  observations  and  discoveries 
made  during  the  preceding  year,  relating  directly  or  indirectly  to  pharmacy. 
This  is  followed  by  a  review  of  the  investigation  on  the  various  articles  of 
materia  medica,  conveniently  grouped  together  into  natural  orders. 
Part  II  of  the  Year-Book  treats  of  pharmaceutical  chemistry,  upon  172 
pages  ;  Part  III  of  pharmacy,  upon  101  pages,  and  Part  IV  contains,  upon  20 
pages,  a  number  of  notes  and  formulas,  which  could  not  conveniently  be  arranged 
in  the  preceding  part. 
The  abstracts  of  the  papers  are  very  full  and  complete,  and,  as  far  as  we  have 
examined,  cover  pretty  well  the  pharmaceutical  literature  of  the  year.  In  our 
opinion,  the  use  of  Parts  II  and  III  would  be  materially  facilitated  if  they 
were  subdivided  by  several  headings,  as  has  been  done  in  Part  I ;  the  syste- 
matic arrangements  which  appear  to  have  been  adopted  for  the  two  parts  would 
then  become  more  obvious. 
The  Year  Book  is  followed  by  the  Constitution,  &c,  of  the  Conference,  the 
alphabetical  lists  of  members,  and  of  the  towns  in  which  they  reside.  The 
roll  shows  18  honorary,  and  altogether  2000  members,  a  number  far  surpassing 
that  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  which  latter  has  been 
organized  more  than  double  the  length  of  time. 
The  Transactions  of  this  body,  including  the  reports  and  papers  read  at  the 
meeting,  occupy  188  pages.  In  the  October  number  of  1872  we  have  given  a 
short  account  of  them,  and  several  papers  have  been  republished  in  this 
Journal. 
Great  credit  is  due  to  Mr,  C.  H.  Wood,  editor  of  the  Year-Book,  and  Prof. 
Attfield,  editor  of  the  Transactions,  for  the  labor  bestowed  upon  this  volume, 
not  the  least  important  feature  of  which  is  a  complete  and  carefully  prepared 
index  of  26  pages,  in  double  columns. 
The  Pharmacist  and  Chemical  Record.  A  Monthly  Journal  of  Pharmacy, 
Chemistry  and  the  Collateral  Sciences.  Published  by  the  Chicago  College 
of  Pharmacy,  1873.    Price,  $1.50  per  year. 
The  January  number  of  our  contemporary  comes  to  us  enlarged  from  24  to 
32  pages  each  month.  It  remains  under  the  editorship  of  Professor  N.  Gray 
Bartlett,  with  Mr.  Albert  K.  Ebert,  associate  editor,  We  congratulate  our 
Western  friends  on  this  evidence  of  success  and  prosperity. 
