Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  ) 
Oct.,  IS76.  / 
Reviews,  etc. 
579 
The  conditions  of  successful  alcoholic  fermentation  as  they  have  been  found  out 
by  practice,  it  appears  to  us,  are  contained  in  the  conclusions  drawn  by  the  author 
under  No.  2  and  the  last  half  of  the  fifth  deduction. 
Tables  for  Systematic  Qualitative  Chemical  Analysis.  By  John  H.  Snively,  Ph.D., 
Professor  of  Analytical  Chemistry  in  the  Tennessee  College  of  Pharmacy. 
Nashville:  C.  W.  Smith,  1876.    Price, Ji. 
The  views  of  teachers  are  apt  to  differ  on  the  methods  and  means  for  instruction, 
and  still  good  results  may  be  obtained  Our  partiality  for  analytical  tables  like 
those  of  Will,  or  the  more  condensed  ones  found  in  Attfield's  Chemistry,  does  not 
preclude  a  good  opinion  for  tables  arranged  on  a  different  plan  ;  those  named,  how- 
ever, we  regard  as  much  more  convenient  than  the  tables  now  before  us. 
Analytical  chemistry  deals  with  facts  well  ascertained  as  far  as  examined,  and 
upon  such  facts  depends  the  treatment  to  which  an  unknown  compound  is  subjected 
in  order  to  ascertain  its  composition.  A  student  of  analytical  chemistry  can,  there- 
fore, work  intelligently  only  if  he  has  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the  behavior  of  the 
individual  compounds,  and  the  composition  and  behavior  of  the  precipitates  obtained 
in  a  systematically  performed  analysis  becomes,  for  these  reasons,  of  great  impor- 
tance. The  happy  combination  of  such  essentials  makes  the  admirable  work  of 
Prof.  Attfleld  so  valuable  to  a  student  who  has  but  a  limited  knowledge  of  chemis- 
try when  he  enters  a  chemical  laboratory. 
The  Hot  Springs  of  Arkansas,  as  they  are.    A  History  and  Guide.    By  Chas.  Cut- 
ter.   Hot  Springs,  Ark.,  1876.    8vo,  pp.  88.    Price,  50  cents. 
A  new  edition  of  the  pamphlet  noticed  in  this  journal,  1874,  p.  447. 
Ready  Reference  List  for  Physicians.    By  Rich.  J.  Dunglison,  M.D.  Philadelphia, 
1876.    8vo,  pp.  54. 
Besides  advertisements,  it  contains  the  Hippocratic  Oath,  directions  for  treating 
the  apparently  drowned,  and  tables  on  poisons  and  their  antidotes,  on  doses,  approx- 
imate measurements,  weights  and  measures. 
State  Hospital  for  the  Insane,  Danville,  Pa. 
The  annual  report  for  the  year  1874-75,  by  the  Superintendent,  S.  S.  Schultz. 
Thirty-third  Annual  Report  of  the  Managers  of  the  State  Lunatic  Asylum,  Utica,  N.  V. 
Albany,  1876. 
This  report  for  the  year  1875  was  transmitted  to  the  Legislature  in  January  of 
the  present  year. 
The  reception  of  the  following  reprints  is  respectfully  acknowledged : 
Specimens  of  Milk  from  the  Vicinity  of  Boston.    By  S.  P.  Sharpies,  S.  B. 
A  contribution  towards  our  knowledge  of  the  variations  in  the  composition  of 
milk. 
ScheeWs  Green,  its  Composition  as  usually  prepared,  and  some  Experiments  upon  Arse- 
nite  of  Copper.    By  S.  P.  Sharpies,  S.  B. 
The  composition  of  pure  Scheele's  green  is  probably  Cu3As2062  H20  ;  but  it  is 
almost  impossible  to  obtain  a  perfectly  constant  product,  from  the  strong  tendency 
to  form  basic  sulphates  and  arsenites. 
