148  Book  Reviews. 
March,  1906. 
Sec.  6.  This  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after 
the  day  of  19  . 
A  BlUv 
To  Regulate  the  Sale  of  Certain  Proprietary  Medicines. 
Be  it  Enacted,  etc. 
Section  i.  Any  proprietary  medicine  which  contains  a  percent- 
age of  alcohol  greater  than  is  reasonably  necessary  for  the  extrac- 
tion and  dissolving  of  the  active  constituents  of  the  drugs  used  in 
the  preparation  of  said  medicine  or  to  prevent  the  precipitation  of 
such  active  constituents  or  to  preserve  the  medicine  from  fermenta- 
tion or  freezing,  shall  be  deemed  to  be  an  intoxicating  liquor  and 
shall  be  sold  only  under  the  provisions  of  the  law  regulating  the 
sale  of  intoxicating  liquors.  Provided  that  this  act  shall  not  be 
construed  to  apply  to  preparations  compounded  according  to  any 
formula  embraced  in  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  or  the 
National  Formulary,  when  sold  under  a  title  recognized  by  the  said 
United  States  Pharmacopoeia,  or  National  Formulary. 
Sec.  2.  No  prosecution  shall  be  brought  for  the  sale  of  any  pro- 
prietary preparation  in  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this  act  unless 
the  Board  of  Pharmacy  shall,  after  due  investigation,  certify  that 
such  proprietary  preparation  contains  alcohol  in  a  percentage  greater 
than  the  limit  fixed  by  Section  1. 
BOOK  REVIEWS. 
Bibliographical  Index  of  North  American  Fungi.    By  William 
G.  Farlow.    Volume  I,  Part  I.    Abrothallus  to  Badhamia.  Issued 
September  1,  1905.    Published  by  the  Carnegie  Institution  of  Wash- 
ington.  1905. 
One  of  the  great  needs  of  the  scientific  investigator  is  that  of 
bibliographic  compilations  which  will  enable  him  readily  to  look  up 
the  literature  bearing  on  the  research  problems  which  engage  his 
attention.  Most  investigators  probably  spend  as  much  time  in 
looking  up  references  and  going  over  literature  as  they  do  in  their 
actual  research  work.  Therefore  a  work  so  complete  as  this  Index 
is  very  welcome. 
This  stupendous  work  by  Professor  Farlow,  of  which  we  now  have 
the  first  part,  has  been  in  preparation  for  over  thirty  years.  It  is  a 
summary  of  all  the  literature  on  systematic  mycology,  excluding 
that  on  bacteria  and  the  saccharomycetes.  The  classification  adopted 
