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Reviews. 
I  Am.  Jour.  1  harm. 
\    January,  lsto. 
JOHN  M.  MAISCH. 
The  biography  of  Professor  Maisch,  published  in  this  Journal  one  year  ago, 
gave  a  complete  list  of  his  contributions  to  pharmaceutical  literature  so  far  as 
this  country  is  concerned,  but  we  were  recently  supplied  with  a  list  of  his 
papers  contributed  to  Buckner's  Repertorium,  and  consequently  in  the  Ger- 
man language.  The  following  are  the  titles  and  references,  as  translated  and 
compiled  by  Mr.  Hans  M.  Wilder,  who  thinks  it  covers  all  the  contributions  in 
German  : 
(1)  American  Eclectic  Resinoids.    Vol.  vi,  p.  481-4S7.  1857. 
(2)  Sale  of  Poisons  in  U.  S.    Vol.  vii,  p.  267-271.  1S5S. 
(3)  Fluid  Extracts  in  U.  S.    Same  vol.  and  year,  p.  297-304. 
(4)  Manufacturing  Pharmacy  in  U.  S.    Vol.  viii,  p.  433-437.  1S59. 
(5)  Alumen  Ustum.    Vol.  ix,  p.  127-129.  1S60. 
(6)  U.  S.  Ph.    Same  vol.  and  year,  p.  145-149. 
(7)  Mineral  Water  Trade  in  U.  S.    Vol.  x.  p.  257-259.  i86r. 
(8)  Flora  of  Philadelphia.    Vol.  x.  p.  2S9-294  and  259-364.  1861. 
(9)  Standing  of  the  Pharmacist  in  the  U.  S.  Army.  Vol.  xi,  p.  294-299. 
1862. 
(10)  Snake  Bite  Remedies  in  U.  S.    Same  vol.  and  year,  p.  352-356. 
Mr.  Wilder  also  informs  us  that  the  penalty  imposed  on  Prof.  Maisch  for  his 
connection  with  the  revolution  of  1849  was  4T2  years  at  hard  labor  in  the  peni- 
tentiary. Little  wonder  he  sought  the  friendly  shores  of  this  country  to 
escape  such  a  pen  alt}*. 
REVIEWS  AXD  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Les  Drogues  Simpi.es  D'Origixe  Vegetaee.  Par  MM.  G.  Planchon  et 
E.  Collin.    Tome  premier.    Paris.    Octave  Doin.    1S95.    Pp.  805. 
This  is  a  magnificent  work  on  the  simple  drugs  of  vegetable  origin.  Begin- 
ning with  the  cryptogamia,  the  first  article  is  on  the  varech  [Fucus  vesicnlosus. 
L.),  then  follow  in  systematic  order  the  various  members  of  this  series,  which 
occupy  sixty  pages.  The  phanerogamia  are  then  considered  as  far  as  the  cam- 
panulacece,  which  terminate  Volume  I.  The  second  volume  is  promised  for  the 
end  of  1S95. 
The  whole  subject  is  treated  in  a  systematic  manner;  for  instance,  each  drug 
is  described  under  the  following  heads  :  origin,  description,  structure,  chemical 
composition  and  uses.  Under  some  of  the  more  important  drugs  there  are 
given,  in  addition  to  the  above,  the  history,  commercial  varieties  and  substitu- 
tions. There  are  626  illustrations  distributed  through  the  volume,  which 
greatly  enhance  its  value.  These,  in  many  articles  embrace,  the  whole  plant, 
the  part  used,  the  structure  and  in  some  cases  the  starch. 
Rhubarb  is  especially  well-described  and  illustrated,  the  figures  of  the 
vari  jus  commercial  varieties,  as  well  as  those  of  the  anatomical  structure,  being 
particularly  noteworthy. 
This  volume  is  one  of  which  the  authors  have  the  best  of  reasons  to  feel  proud, 
and  we  shall  await  the  appearance  of  the  second  volume  with  some  impatience. 
Ykar-Book  of  Pharmacy,  1894.  London:  J.  and  A.  Churchill.  This  val- 
uable publication  is  made  up  of  about  250  pages  of  abstracts  and  of  over  200 
pages  of  the  transactions  of  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference,  held  at 
Oxford,  in  August,  1S94.    The  papers  read  at  that  meeting  were  given  in 
