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Reviews. 
("Am. Jour.  Pbarnj. 
\   December,  1895. 
some  pertinent  remarks  on  incompatibility,  which  is  considered  pharmaceuti- 
cal^, chemically  and  therapeutically,  and  practically  exhausts  the  subject. 
Part  III  is  divided  into  inorganic  and  organic  substances.  The  classification 
of  the  tormer  is  probably  as  good  as  could  be  devised  in  a  strictly  pharma- 
ceutical treatment,  but  the  author  introduces  the  organic  substances  with  a 
chapter  on  cellulose.  We  are  aware  that  in  doing  this  he  has  followed  the 
practice  of  a  number  of  pharmaceutical  writers  who  have  preceded  him  ;  but 
the  classification  is  as  unscientific  as  it  is  unaccountable,  and  belongs  to  the 
ideas  existing  in  the  early  part  of  this  century,  that  cellulose  was  a  fundamental 
kind  of  matter.  This  order  of  treatment  is  all  the  more  remarkable  because 
cellulose  is  not  of  any  great  pharmaceutical  importance,  and  one  recent  author 
has  seen  fit  to  omit  it  altogether  from  his  work  on  pharmacy. 
The  various  chapters  in  the  organic  part,  are  creditably  presented,  notably 
the  one  devoted  to  the  alkaloids,  in  which  an  excellent  brief  description  is 
given  of  the  class  in  general,  and  of  the  more  important  individual  members 
of  the  class. 
As  a  whole,  the  book  is  a  well-written,  compact  statement  of  the  science  of 
pharmacy,  and  will  be  found  of  value  by  students  as  well  as  by  the  general 
pharmacist.  The  typography,  illustrations  and  whole  make-up  of  the  work 
are  a  credit  to  the  publishers. 
Bulletin,  Vol.  II,  No.  4,  College  of  Agriculture,  Imperial  University  of 
Japan. 
In  this  number  Dr.  Oscar  Loew  continues  his  contribution  on  The  Energy  of  the 
Living  Protoplasm,  as  previously  noticed  in  this  Journal  (1894,  p.  412,  and  1895, 
p.  179);  the  special  considerations  this  time  being  The  Chemical  Activity  of 
Living  Cells  and  Respiration.  The  other  contributions  in  this  number  are  :  On 
the  Reserve  Protein  in  Plants,  II,  by  G.  Daikubara  ;  On  the  Consumptioii  of 
Asparagine  in  the  Nutrition  of  Plants,  On  the  Assimilation  of  Nitrogen 
from  Nitrates  and  Ammonium  Salts  by  Phcenogams,  On  the  Presence  of 
Asparagine  in  the  Root  of  Nelumbo  nucifera,  and  On  the  Occurrence  of  Two 
Kinds  of  Mannan  in  the  Root  of  Conophallus  konyaku,  by  Y.  Kinoshita  ; 
Note  on  the  Chemical  Composition  of  Some  Mucilages,  by  K.  Yoshimura  ; 
The  Preparation  and  Chemical  Composition  of  Tofu,  and  Note  011  Nukamiso, 
by  M.  Inouye  ;  Preliminary  Note  on  Sake  Yeast,  by  K.  Yabe  ;  Note  on  the 
Behavior  of  Hippuric  Acid  in  Soils,  by  K.  Yoshimura  ;  Does  Hydrogen  Per- 
oxide Occur  in  Plants,  by  J.  Cho. 
Appendix  to  Dunguson's  Medical  Dictionary.  Lea  Brothers  &  Co., 
Philadelphia,  1895. 
This  is  a  supplement  to  the  twenty-first  edition,  and  consists  of  twenty-five 
pages  of  the  most  recent  medical  terms.  Many  of  the  new  remedies  of  syn- 
thetic origin  are  defined,  and  also  many  of  those  substances  which  were  first 
made  official  in  the  U.  S.  P.,  1890. 
Indexes  to  the  Literatures  of  Cerium  and  Lanthanum.  By  W.  H. 
Magee,  Ph.D.  Washington:  published  by  the  Smithsonian  Institution,  1895. 
8vo,  43  pp.  From  Smithsonian  Miscellaneous  Collections,  Vol.  38  (Number 
97i). 
