Reviews,  etc. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm 
\      May,  1876 
The  present  year  of"  the  Centennial  independence  of  the  United  States  is  also  of 
special  interest  to  the  pharmacists  of  this  country.  Five  years  ago,  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy  celebrated  the  semi-centennial  anniversary  of  its  foundation  ; 
three  years  hence,  the  New  York  College  will  have  attained  its  fiftieth  year  since  its 
organization  5  35  years  have  passed  by  since  the  Maryland  College  '  obtained  its 
charter,  and  20  years  since  it  was  reorganized,  and  on  the  15th  of  October  next  it 
will  be  twenty-five  years  since,  in  New  York,  the  first  Conventionof  Pharmacists 
and  Druggists  met,  which  took  the  initiatory  steps  to  organize  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Proceedings  of  the  Vermont  Pharmaceutical  Association,  at  the  sixth  annual  meet- 
ing, held  at  St.  Johnsbury,  October  13th  and  14th,  1875.  Rutland:  1876,  8vo. 
pp.  40. 
On  page  570,  of  our  last  volume,  will  be  found  a  brief  account  of  this  meeting  ; 
the  pamphlet  before  us  contains  the  various  reports  in  full.  Of  particular  interest 
to  us  is  the  report  on  legislation,  which  gives  the  draft  of  a  plain  pharmacy  bill,  in 
which,  with  the  least  possible  complication,  sufficient  competency  of  the  pharma- 
cists, and  their  assistants,  is  aimed  at.  The  bill  passed  the  House  by  more  than  a 
two-thirds  vote,  but  failed  in  the  Senate  through  the  treachery,  as  the  committee 
tell  us,  of  the  Senator  from  Burlington,  a  patent  medicine  dealer,  who  promised  to 
"  take  care  of  the  bill,"  and  labored  faithfully  to  defeat  it.  Our  friends  deserve 
better  luck  next  time. 
Two  papers,  on  displacement  apparatus  and  on  fluid  extracts,  have  been  published 
in  the  pamphlet  5  the  latter  speaks  of  the  faulty  officinal  formulas  for  various  of  the 
kinds,  but  unfortunately  omits  to  point  out  either  the  faults  or  remedies  therefor. 
The  process  recommended  in  the  paper  is  the  same  as  that  patented  by  Mr.  Spencer 
Thomas,  in  1865  ("Am.  Journ.  Pharm.,"  1865,  p.  85,  1866,  p.  218,  containing 
also  Prof.  Procter's  comments). 
We  regret  to  learn  that  all  the  books,  records,  papers,  &c,  of  this  association 
were  consumed  by  fire,  February  16th,  which  totally  destroyed  the  Secretary's,  Mr 
A.  W.  Higgins',  store. 
Formula  for  non-officinal  preparations  in  general  use  in  the  District  of  Columbia. — 
Published  by  E.  L.  Duvall.    Washington  :    1875,  8vo.  PP«  4^- 
As  this  formulary  has  been  prepared  by  a  joint  committee  of  the  Medical  Society 
of  the  District  of  Columbia  and  the  National  College  of  Pharmacy,  an  authority 
is  attached  to  it,  at  least  for  the  district  in  which  the  national  capital  is  situated. 
Speaking  of  it  as  a  whole,  we  are  much  impressed  with  the  practicability  of  the 
formulas  framed  ;  but  we  regret  that  the  joint  committee  did  not  see  fit  to  adhere 
more  closely  to  the  formulas  for  elixirs  adopted  by  the  Amer.  Phar.  Asso.  The 
name  of  elixir  aurantii  is  very  appropriate  for  the  simple  elixir,  and  the  absence  of 
the  slight  amount  of  cinnamon  is  immaterial.    We  object,  however,  to  such  names 
