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as  elixir  calisayae,  when  the  preparation  is  made  with  the  sulphates  of  the  four 
commoner  cinchona  alkaloids,  and  calisaya  bark  is  not  used.  The  deviation,  in 
strength,  of  some  formulas  from  those  of  the  Amer.  Phar.  Asso.,  of  1875,  is  ex- 
plained by  the  former  having  been  adopted  as  early  as  last  August. 
Liquor  ergotse  should  have  been  called  tinctura  ergotse,  being  made  from  ergot, 
with  alcohol  of  about  30  per  cent.  Syrupus  calcii  lactophosphatis  is  directed  to  be 
made  with  lactophosphate  of  calcium,  but  a  formula  for  the  latter  is  not  given. 
For  making  syr.  ferri  oxidi  the  saccharated  oxide  of  iron  of  the  German  Pharma- 
copoeia is  used,  without  giving  a  formula  for  its  preparation.  If  it  was  intended  to 
refer  the  apothecary  to  that  pharmacopoeia,  then  formulas  for  compound  liquorice 
powder  and  breast  tea  were  likewise  unnecessary. 
We  shall  endeavor  to  make  room,  in  our  next  issue,  for  some  of  the  formulas 
which  have  not  heretofore  been  published  in  the  "  Journal  " 
Filth  diseases  and  their  prevention.  By  John  Simon,  M.D.,  F.  R.  C.  S.  Boston:  Jas. 
Campbell,  1876,  i2mo,  pp.  96. 
The  author  of  this  masterly  essay,  being  Chief  Medical  Officer  of  the  Privy 
Council  and  of  the  Local  Government  Board  of  England,  has  had  unusual  facili- 
ties to  familiarize  himself  with  the  subject,  and  gives  many  practical  suggestions  for 
the  prevention  of  typhoid  fever  and  allied  diseases,  the  origin  of '  which  may  be 
traced  to  the  accumulation  of  filth.  Properly  regulated  sanitary  work  being,  here, 
still  in  its  infancy,  the  Massachusetts  State  Board  of  Health  have  done  well  to 
republish  this  essay  and  to  recommend  its  being  read,  and  the  suggestions  heeded 
by  every  intelligent  person. 
Lecciones  de  Botanica  arregladas  segun  los  principios  admitidos  por  Guibourt, 
Richard,  Duchartre,  De  Candolle  y  otros.  Por  Joaquin  y  Juan  Donde  (padre  e 
hijo),  farmaceuticos  titulados,  quimicos  y  naturalistos.  Merida  de  Yucatan  :  1876, 
i2mo,  pp.  259. 
Lessons  in  botany. 
Without  pretending  to  be  familiar  with  the  literature  of  Yucatan,  we  should 
regard  the  volume  before  us  as  a  valuable  addition  to  other  available  works,  on 
account  of  its  simple  and  systematic  arrangement  and  the  general  correctness  and 
conciseness  of  the  manner  in  which  the  researches  in  morphological,  physiological, 
pathological  and  systematic  botany  have  been  treated.  To  our  readers  it  will  be 
of  interest  to  learn  that  one  of  the  authors,  of  whom  we  brought  a  biographical 
sketch  on  page  96,  of  this  volume,  was  formerly  a  contributor  to  the  "  Journal." 
Bulletin  of  the  Bussey  Institution  (Jamaica  Plain,  Boston),  part  v.  Cambridge  :  Press 
of  John  Wilson  &  Son,  1876,  8vo,  pp.  100. 
Of  the  eight  papers  contained  in  this  part,  three  are  from  the  pen  of  Prof.  F.  H. 
Storer,  viz  :  Composition  of  date-stone  and  of  the  stones  of  peaches  and  prunes, 
analyses  of  potassic  fertilizers  and  occurrence  of  ammonia  in  anthracite  ;  four 
papers  on  the  disease  of  olive  and  orange  trees  in  California,  on  grape-vine  mildew, 
on  the  black  knot  and  a  list  of  fungi  near  Boston,  by  Prof.  W.  G.  Farlow,  and  a 
