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BOOK  REVIEW. 
Year-Book  of  Pharmacy  and  Transactions  of  the  Pharma- 
ceutical Conference,  1912. — This  volume  of  nearly  700  octavo 
pages  comprises  abstracts  of  papers  relating  to  Pharmacy,  Materia 
Medica  and  Chemistry  contributed  to  British  and  foreign  journals 
from  July  1,  191 1,  to  June  30,  1912,  with  the  transactions  of  the 
British  Pharmaceutical  Conference  at  the  forty-ninth  annual  meet- 
ing held  in  Edinburgh,  July,  1912.  The  editors  and  abstractors 
are  to  be  congratulated  on  the  promptness  with  which  the  volume 
under  discussion  was  published  and  are  to  be  commended  for  the 
completeness  and  comprehensiveness  of  the  abstracts  contained  in 
the  nearly  400  pages  devoted  to  this  portion  of  the  book. 
Following  an  interesting  review  of  the  more  important  happen- 
ing's in  the  sciences  related  to  pharmacy,  the  abstracts  are  arranged 
under  the  general  headings,  Chemistry,  Materia  Medica  and 
Pharmacy,  as  follows : — Chemistry ;  alkaloids  ;  animal  products ; 
clinical  tests ;, coloring  matters;  essential  oils;  fats,  fixed  oils  and 
waxes ;  glucosides,  sugars,  and  ferments ;  gums,  oleoresins,  and 
resins ;  inorganic  chemistry ;  organic  chemistry,  unclassified ;  plant 
analysis  :  Materia  medica ;  new  remedies ;  pharmacognosy ;  pharma- 
cology and  therapeutics  :  Pharmacy  ;  dispensing ;  galenical  pharmacy  ; 
pharmacopoeia  revision  notes ;  notes  and  formulas.  This  arrange- 
ment of  the  abstracts  readily  facilitates  a  critical  and  comparative 
study  of  the  progress  made  in  any  one  branch  of  pharmaceutical 
research  during  the  year  and  also  facilitates  reference  by  permitting 
the  juxtaposition  of  abstracts  of  closely  related  articles. 
The  succinct  and  yet  complete  reflection  of  the  transactions  of 
the  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference  at  its  annual  meeting,  Edin- 
burgh, 1912,  is  particularly  interesting  from  a  practical  point  of 
view  in  that  it  tends  to  preserve  for  future  generations  of  pharma- 
cists an  accurate  account  of  the  activities  of  the  association. 
An  index  covering  45,  double  column,  pages  completes  the 
volume  and  makes  it  doubly  valuable  as  a  book  of  reference. 
Altogether  there  can  be  no  gainsaying  the  opinion  that  the  Year- 
Book  for  19 1 2  is  a  valuable  contribution  to  the  literature  of 
pharmacy  and  that  the  thanks  of  pharmacists  throughout  the 
English  speaking  world  are  due  to  the  members  of  the  British 
Pharmaceutical  Conference  particularly  for  the  continuance  of  this 
increasingly  interesting  annual  publication.  M.  I.  W. 
