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a  place  as  to  make  attendance  on  the  part  of  non-resident  members  more  convenient 
and  representative.  It  is  likely  that  the  first  one  of  these  meetings  will  be  held  in 
Philadelphia  during  the  approaching  summer. 
Chemists  desirous  of  becoming  members  of  the  American  Chemical  Society, 
should  address  the  Committee  on  Nominations,  Post-office  box,  1,396,  New  York 
City. 
The  Liebig  Monument. — We  learn  from  German  papers  that  the  collections 
for  the  proposed  Liebig  Monument  amount  thus  far  to  140,000  marks  (nearly 
$35,000).  It  is  intended  to  erect  the  monument  upon  the  Dult  Place  in  Munich,, 
but  neither  has  the  artist  been  selected,  nor  has  a  design  been  formally  adopted. 
Murderous  Attack  in  a  Laboratory. — Prof.  Otto,  of  the  Polytechnic  School 
at  Brunswick,  Germany,  was  attacked  by  an  employee  at  the  pharmaceutical  and 
chemical  laboratory  and  seriously  wounded,  toward  evening  of  April  zzd.  It  ap- 
pears that  the  professor  had  censured  the  man  for  carelessly  breaking  an  apparatus^ 
and  was  afterwards  assaulted  by  him  with  some  blunt  instrument,  probably  a  pestle,, 
receiving  eight  wounds  about  the  head.  Fortunately  the  wounds,  although  very 
serious,  are  not  absolutely  dangerous,  and  there  is  hope  of  the  ultimate  recovery  of 
Prof.  Otto.  The  perpetrator  of  the  dastardly  act  was  soon  after  arrested,  and 
lodged  in  prison,  where  he  put  at  end  to  his  life  by  hanging. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
C.  H.  Hobbs"  Botanical  T ?xt-book  of  common,  local,  English,  Botanical  and  Pharmaco- 
pceial  Names,  arranged  in  alphabetical  order,  of  most  of  the  crude  Vegetable 
Drugs,  &c.,  in  common  use ;  their  Properties,  Productions  and  Uses  in  an  ab- 
breviated form.  Especially  designed  as  a  reference-book  for  Druggists  and 
Apothecaries.  In  Three  Parts.  Compiled  and  published  by  Chas.  E.  Hobbs,. 
Boston:  1876.    Large  8vo,  pp.  271.    Price  $3.50. 
The  very  lengthy  title  of  this  book  is  almost  sufficient  to  give  a  synopsis  of  its 
contents.  The  first  part,  which  is  headed  English,  contains  three  columns,  re- 
spectively marked  Common,  English  and  Botanical,  the  latter  containing  the  botanical 
names  of  the  plants,  and  the  second  column  the  English  names  more  generally  em- 
ployed, while  the  first  column  aims  at  giving  all  the  English  names  of  more  local 
use,  and  including  likewise  the  names  found  in  the  second  column.  We  fully  re- 
cognize the  difficulty  of  such  an  arrangement,  and  it  could  hardly  be  otherwise  but 
that  discrepancies  should  be  found  here  ;  thus  for  instance  for  the  common  name  of 
acorn  the  English  Fruit  of  the  oak  is  given,  while  for  Anise,  common  the  English 
Anise  [Seed  is  used.  We  rather  expected  the  second  column  to  contain  the  defi- 
nition of  the  word  of  the  first  column,  an  idea  which  is  really  carried  out  in  some 
portions  of  the  first  part,  like  under  the  head  of  oils,  where  the  second  column  usu- 
ally defines  the  nature  of  the  oil,  whether  fixed,  expressed,  distilled,  &c,  and  the 
part  of  the  plant  from  which  it  is  obtained. 
