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EDITORIAL. 
Hams,  F.R.S.,  President,  and  Sir  Henry  Holland  and  a  long  list  of  others 
as  Vice-Presidents,  Dr.  Barlow  as  Treasurer,  and  Dr.  J.  Hutchinson  as  Sec- 
retary, besides  a  council  of  management.  The  objects  to  which  the  new 
Society  will  direct  its  attention  are  the  following : 
r,  "  The  translating  and  editing  of  valuable  foreign  works  on  Medical 
Science,  as  also  of  important  papers  which  may  have  recently  appeared 
in  foreign  journals,  transactions  of  Societies,  etc.  These  works,  papers, 
etc.,  will  be  translated  in  full,  and  brought  out  as  early  as  possible  after 
their  original  publication. 
"If.  The  reproduction  of  British  works,  lectures,  and  papers,  which, 
while  of  great  practical  value,  are  out  of  print  or  difficult  to  obtain, 
excluding  the  works  of  living  authors. 
"III.  A  Year-Book  of  Reports  in  abstract  of  the  different  branches 
of  Medical  Science,  compiled  by  a  Committee. 
"  IY.  Should  the  funds  prove  adequate,  it  is  proposed  also  to  prepare 
volumes  of  Medical  Bibliography  and  Medical  Biography." 
Our  readers,  familiar  with  the  course  of  the  old  Society,  will  perceive 
quite  a  change  in  the  objects,  the  new  Society  aiming  chiefly  at  modern 
works  and  ideas  as  developed  in  papers  published  in  foreign  languages. 
The  subscription  is  one  guinea  sterling  in  advance  annually. 
The  Dispensatory  of  the  United  States  of  America.  By  George  B.  Wood, 
M.D.,  Professor  of  the  Theory  and  Practice  of  Medicine  in  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  &c,  and  Franklin  Bache,  M.D.,  Professor  of  Chemis- 
try in  Jefferson  Medical  College,  &c.  Eleventh  edition,  carefully  re- 
vised.   Philadelphia.    J.  B.  Lippincott  &  Co.    1858.   Pp.  1583,  octavo. 
The  tenth  edition  of  the  U.  S.  Dispensatory  was  published  in  July,  1854, 
nearly  four  years  ago.  The  previous  edition  was  issued  in  1851.  Although 
since  the  middle  of  1854  there  have  been  no  Pharmacopoeias  revised  which 
would  cause  any  extensive  changes  in  the  details  of  the  work,  yet  so  many 
have  been  the  observations  and  discoveries  in  materia  medica  and  phar- 
macy, that  the  authors,  with  the  idea  constantly  in  view  of  the  necessity  of 
compression  into  one  volume,  have  felt  it  necessary  to  swell  the  book 
over  one  hundred  pages.  Of  these,  forty  have  been  added  to  the  part  on 
materia  medica,  and  the  remainder  nearly  equally  divided  between  the 
second,  or  pharmaceutical  part,  and  the  third,  or  description  of  non-officinal 
drugs,  preparations  and  chemicals.  The  third  part  of  the  present  edition 
includes  that  portion  of  the  appendix  to  the  former  editions  which  was 
embraced  in  small  type,  and  which  from  its  great  increase  in  size  and  the 
variety  of  valuable  articles  it  contains  has  been  erected  into  a  distinct 
division.  The  present  "  Appendix"  includes  "  the  art  of  prescribing,  the 
tables  of  weights  and  measures,  the  table  of  pharmaceutical  equivalents 
and  those  of  specific  gravity  for  hydrometers.    The  table  of  equivalents 
