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Ohituary. 
f  Am,  Jour.  Phabh  • 
1     Oct.  1,  1871. 
and  filtering  m  vacuo  ;  also  for  the  drying  of  herbs  and  crystals.  Reprint  from 
Neues  J ahrbuch  der  Pharmacie.    8vo,  20  pages. 
The  water  air-pump  of  the  authors  differs  in  construction  materially  from 
the  one  described  on  page  401  of  this  journal.  In  a  future  number  we 
shall  endeavor  to  give  the  prominent  points  of  the  pamphlet  before  us. 
The  Physician'' s  Prescription- Book ;  containing  lists  of  the  terms,  phrases' 
contractions,  and  abbreviations,  used  in  prescriptions,  with  explanatory 
notes  ;  the  grammatical  construction  of  prescriptions;  rules  for  the  pronun- 
ciation of  pharmaceutical  terms  ;  a  prosodiacal  vocabulary  of  the  names  of 
drugs,  &c.;  and  a  series  of  abbreviated  prescriptions  illustrating  the  use  of 
the  preceding  terms;  to  which  is  added  a  key,  containing  the  prescriptions 
in  an  unabbreviated  form,  with  a  literal  translation,  for  the  use  of  medical 
and  pharmaceutical  students.  By  Jonathan  Pereira,  M.D.,  F.R.S.  Fifteenth 
edition.  Philadelphia:  Lindsay  &  Blakiston,  1871.  16mo,  286  pages.  Price, 
in  cloth,  $1.25  ;  in  leather,  with  tucks  and  pocket,  $1.50. 
This  little  work  of  the  celebrated  author  is  too  well  known,  and  its  usefulness 
being  proven  by  the  numerous  editions  through  which  it  has  passed  in  England 
and  in  this  country,  we  merely  call  attention  to  the  present  handsome  edition. 
TransacUons  of  the  Minnesota  State  Medical  Society.     St.  Paul  Pioneer 
Printing  Company,  1871.    8vo,  63  pages. 
The  receipt  of  this  pamphlet  is  acknowledged. 
The  Canadian  Journal  of  Pharmacy.    Toronto,  Ontario. 
This  monthly,  of  which  Mr.  E.  B.  Shuttleworth  is  the  able  and  zealous 
editor,  comes  to  us  in  an  entirely  new  dress,  and  is  thereby  much  improved 
in  appearance. 
OBITUARY. 
Pkof.  Robert  Bentley. — During  the  late  meeting  of  the  American  Phar- 
maceutical Association  in  St.  Louis,  a  cable  dispatch  announced  the  death 
of  this  zealous  laborer  in  the  cause  of  science.  The  intelligence  cast  a  gloom 
over  the  members  who  knew  him  by  reputation  or  personally,  and  the  sad 
event  was  feelingly  alluded  to  by  Mr.  Henry  B.  Brady,  a  personal  friend  of 
the  deceased.  In  the  next  number  we  shall  lay  before  the  readers  a  bio- 
graphical  sketch  of  the  deceased. 
WiLiiELM  RiTTER  VON  Haidinger,  a  Celebrated  mineralogist  and  geologist, 
died  in  March  last,  at  Vienna,  Austria. 
