AmVr;8P76.arm-}  Reviews,  etc.  9  5 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Tear-Book  of  Pharmacy,  comprising  Abstracts  of*  Papers  relating  to  Pharmacy,  Ma- 
teria Medica  and  Chemistry  contributed  to  British  and  Foreign  Journals  from 
July  1  j  1874,  to  June  30,  1875  5  with  the  Transactions  of  the  British  Pharmaceu- 
tical Conference  at  the  Twelfth  Annual  Meeting,  held  in  Bristol,  August,  1875. 
London:  J.  &  A.  Churchill,  1875.    8vo,  pp.  652. 
This  annual  publication  contains  in  its  first  part  abstracts  of  papers  of  interest  to 
pharmacists  which  have  appeared  during  the  preceding  year,  and  are  grouped  under 
the  three  headings  mentioned  in  the  title,  a  fourth  part,  Notes  and  Formula?,  being 
added,  but  no  systematic  arrangement  being  followed,  which,  however,  is  in  a  mea- 
sure compensated  for  by  the  copious  index.  The  "  Year-  Book  "  embraces  the  first 
404  pages.  The  remainder  of  the  volume  is  occupied  by  the  usual  lists  of  mem- 
bers, associations,  the  programme  for  the  meeting,  the  minutes,  papers,  &c.  Of  the 
meeting  we  have  given  an  account  in  our  last  volume,  published  abstracts  of  several 
of  the  interesting  papers  read,  and  expect  to  bring  the  others  to  the  notice  of  our 
readers  in  a  similar  manner. 
The  volume  is  creditable  to  the  Association  from  which  it  emanates,  and  which, 
though  little  more  than  half  the  age  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
has  upon  its  roll  a  much  larger  number  of  members,  a  circumstance  which  speaks 
well  for  the  pharmacists  of  Great  Britain.  Will  American  pharmacists  profit  by 
this  good  example,  and  unite  themselves  with  the  National  Association  at  its  twenty- 
fourth  annual  meeting  in  September  next  ? 
The  Identification  and  Microscopical  Examination  of  Crude  Drugs  and  other  Vegetable 
Products.  By  Mark  W.  Harrington,  M.  A  ,  Assistant  Professor  in  charge  of 
Botany  in  the  University  of  Michigan.  Ann  Arbor:  John  Moore,  1876. 
pp.  34. 
We  have  been  much  pleased  with  the  examination  of  this  pamphlet.  There  has, 
as  yet,  been  proposed  no  systematic  course  for  the  study  of  Materia  Medica  against 
which  weighty  objections  might  not  be  raised;  but  a  system  based  upon  the  organ- 
ological,  physical  and  structural  qualities  of  the  drugs  appears  to  us  much  more 
rational  than  their-  arrangement  according  to  botanical  origin,  although  the  latter 
has  some  advantages  which  the  former  can  never  attain.  After  the  labors  of  Schlei- 
den,  Berg,  Fliickiger  ("  Pharmakognosie,"  1867),  and  others,  the  ground  has  been 
well  broken,  and,  as  a  contribution  in  the  same  direction,  we  welcome  the  pamphlet 
before  us  and  regret  only  that  it  is  so  very  brief,  a  mere  skeleton  only,  which,  how- 
ever, is  the  precursor  of  a  more  extended  work  by  the  same  author. 
Hermapbrodism,  from  a  Medico- Legal  Point  of  Vienv.    By  Basile  Poppesco.  Chi- 
cago: W.  B.  Keen,  Cooke  &  Co.,  1875.    8vo,  pp.  45.    Price,  50  cents. 
A  translation,  by  Dr.  E.  W.  Sawyer,  Lecturer  on  Obstetrics  in  the  Rush  Medi- 
cal College,  Chicago,  of  the  author's  interesting  thesis,  presented  to  the  Faculty  of 
Medicine,  Paris. 
