Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Nov.,  1879. 
Reviews,  etc. 
in  1875,  if  was  tne  most  extensive  and  best  displayed  collection  that  had  been 
shown  at  the  meetings  for  some  years  past.  For  an  enumeration  of  the  articles- 
exhibited  we  have  to  refer  to  the  "  Proceedings,"  which  will  doubtless  contain  a 
detailed  report;  but  in  this  place  we  desire  to  call  special  attention  only  to  a  few  of 
the  exhibits  which  appeared  to  us  to  be  particularly  noteworthy.  That  Powers  8c 
Weightman,  Rosengarten  &  Sons  and  Mallinckrodt  &  Co.,  displayed  in  the  chemi- 
cal department,  was  to  be  expected,  and  this  made  the  absence  of  other  firms  more 
noteworthy.  Among  the  collections  of  crude  drugs,  those  of  J.  G.  Steele  &  Co. 
(chiefly  California  and  Asiatic  drugs),  Lehn  &  Fink  (including  numerous  alkaloids 
and  other  proximate  principles),  McKesson  &  Robbins  (including  curious  South 
American  implements  and  products  collected  by  Mr.  Wellcome),  Merrill,  Thorp 
and  Lloyd  (including  new  salts  of  berberina),  Rob.  Shoemaker  &  Co.  (chiefly  pow- 
dered drugs),  B.  O.  &  C.  G.  Wilson  (pressed  herbs),  Parke,  Davis  &  Co.  and 
others  were  quite  attractive,  many  of  the  specimens  being  either  novel  or  particu- 
larly handsome  in  appearance.  Numerous  pharmaceutical  preparations,  such  as 
fluid  extracts,  elixirs,  lozenges,  pills  (sugar-coated,  gelatin-coated  and  compressed), 
plasters,  suppositories,  etc  ,  were  exhibited  ;  also  mineral  waters,  glass-ware,  pill  and 
powder  boxes,  stills,  Trcemner's  balances,  druggists1  sundries,  etc. 
New  Hampshire  Pharmaceutical  Association. — The  sixth  annual  meeting  was 
held  in  the  Haseltine  House,  Manchester,  October  9th,  Dr.  Chas.  A.  Tufts  acting 
as  President  pro  tern.  The  following  officers  were  elected:  Brackett  B.  Weeks, 
Manchester,  President  5  Austin  E.  Wallace,  Nashua,  John  A.  Wiley,  Manchester, 
Vice  Presidents;  George  F.  Underhill,  Concord,  Secretary  5  A.  B.  Foster,  Concord, 
Treasurer;  Robert  C.  Dickey,  Hillsborough,  Auditor;  Charles  S.  Eastman,  Con- 
cord, Reporter  on  Progress  of  Pharmacy.  Various  standing  committees  were  also 
elected,  and  delegates  to  the  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association 
in  1880.  A  lecture  on  pharmaceutical  topics  was  delivered  by  Prof.  P.  W.  Bedford, 
and  the  Association  adjourned  to  meet  at  Nashua  on  the  second  Tuesday  in  October,, 
1880. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Winter  and  its  Dangers.  By  Hamilton  Osgood,  M.D  ,  editorial  staff  of  the  Boston; 
"Medical  and  Surgical  Journal.1'  Philadelphia:  Lindsay  &  Blakiston,  1879. 
i6mo,  pp.  160.    Price,  50  cents. 
This  little  volume,  one  of  the  "American  Health  Primers,"  makes  its  appearance 
at  a  season  when  it  will  be  read  with  particular  interest,  and  its  suggestions  may  be 
practically  carried  out.  The  following  are  the  headings  of  the  different  chapters  : 
General  considerations ;  Dangers  arising  from  error  in  dress  ;  Carelessness  and 
ignorance  in  bathing;  Inattention  to  pulmonary  food  ;  Danger  from  overheated  air  j, 
Indifference  to  sunshine  ;  Sedentary  life  and  neglect  of  exercise  ;  Dangers  of  school- 
life  in  winter  ;  Winter  amusements  ;  Closing  considerations. 
