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Reviews — M inutes. 
/  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\     March,  1818. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Formulajre  DES  Medicaments  Nouveaux.  Par  H.  Bocquillon-Limou- 
sin,  ninth  edition.    Libraire  J.  B.  Bailliere  et  Fils,  Paris,  1898. 
Bach  year  this  publication  increases  in  size  and  value.  The  most  notable 
additions  of  the  present  edition  are  :  Cacodylic  acid,  Cardol,  Chelidonine, 
Chinapthol,  Chryso'idine,  Cryophine,  Eucaine,  Holocame,  Hydrogyraseptol, 
Ichtyalbine,  Mydrol,  Orthoform,  Peronine,  Phenylpilocarpine,  Picromtnc 
acid,  Pyramidon,  Spinol,  Tannalbine,  Tannosal,  Triphenine.  There  have  also 
been  added  a  number  of  plants  new  in  therapeutics,  which  have  been  introduced 
from  the  French  colonies  and  other  foreign  sources.  A  large  number  of  formu- 
las for  the  pharmaceutical  preparations  of  the  new  drugs  are  scattered  through 
the  wo:k.  It  is  a  book  which  will  be  found  useful  by  the  pharmacists  of  every 
nationality. 
Observations  on  Recent  Cases  oe  Mushroom  Poisoning  in  the  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia.  By  Frederick  V.  Coville.  Department  of  Agriculture, 
Circular  No.  13.  Revised  edition.    Washington,  D.  C,  January  4,  1898. 
The  present  revision  of  this  timely  bulletin  is  in  keeping  with  the  demands 
for  information  on  such  an  important  and  interesting  subject.  Several  new 
cuts  have  been  added  and  the  text  increased  by  nearly  three  pages,  thus  making 
a  circular  of  twenty-four  pages. 
Calendar  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain,  1898. 
As  is  usual,  this  Calendar  contains  an  account  of  the  educational  and  benevo- 
lent work  of  the  Society,  and  also  much  information  useful  to  pharmacists  and 
chemists. 
Proceedings  of  the  New  Hampshire  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
with  the  Report  of  the  Commissioners  of  Pharmacy. 
At  the  Twenty-fourth  Annual  Meeting  held  at  Manchester,  N.  H.,  September 
7  and  8,  1897,  two  papers  were  presented  by  Dr.  Charles  Tufts,  entitled  respec- 
tively, "  The  Word  Apothecary  "  and  "  Preliminary  Education  for  an  Apothe- 
cary." 
Proceedings  of  the  Twentieth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Kentucky 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  held  at  Crittenden  Springs,  Ky.,  June  15-17, 
1897. 
At  this  meeting  papers  were  presented  as  follows  :  "  A  Business  Remedy," 
by  O.  C.  Dilly;  "  The  Druggist  as  a  Merchant,"  by  Vernon  Driskell,  and  "  A 
Posse  ad  Esse— The  Remedy,"  by  G.  A.  Zwick. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
Philadelphia,  February  15,  1898. 
The  regular  Pharmaceutical  Meeting  was  held  in  the  Materia  Medica  Lecture 
Room,  with  Dr.  C.  B.  Lowe  in  the  chair.  The  minutes  of  the  previous  meeting 
were  allowed  to  stand  as  published. 
The  meeting  was  unusually  well  attended,  and  proved  to  be  one  of  the  most 
interesting  of  the  present  series. 
The  Registrar  presented,  in  behalf  of  Messrs.  Mcllvaine  Bros.,  Philadelphia, 
