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surgery  and  pharmacy,  and  the  first  nine  nominations  to  the  pharmacy 
section  were:  Boullay,  Deyeux,  Fab  re,  Henri,  Laugier,  Pelletier,  Planche, 
Robiquet  and  Vauquelin.  Amongst  the  earher  elections  by  the  Academy 
itself  were:  Boudet,  Derome,  Caventou,  Guibourt,  Labarraque,  Bussy,  Che- 
vallier,  Derosne,  Fremy  and  Serullas.  Since  the  year  1829  the  Academy  of 
Medicine  has  been  divided  into  sections,  of  which  that  devoted  to  pharmacy 
is  the  eleventh,  but  pharmacists  frequently  hgure  in  other  sections.  The 
list,  given  by  M.  Lefort,  of  eminent  pharmacists  who  have  been  connected 
with  this  Academy  as  members,  associates  or  correspondents,  is  too  long 
ibr  quotation  here,  and  this  is  the  less  necessary  since  it  includes  many 
names  that  have  already  been  mentioned.  At  present  there  is  only  the  one 
class  of  members,  limited  to  one  hundred,  and  amongst  them  are 
Included  many  whose  names  have  frequently  appeared  at  the  head  of  arti- 
cles published  in  these  pages." 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Uandworterbuch  der  Pharmakognosie  des  Pflanzenreichs.    Von  Professor 
Dr.  G.  C.  Wittstein.    Breslau  :  Eduard  Trewendt.  1882. 
Dictionary  of  Pharmacognosy  of  the  Vegetable  Kingdom. 
The  three  first  parts  of  this  work  have  been  noticed  in  our  last  volume  ; 
the  fourth  and  fifth  parts  now  before  us  treat  of  the  drugs  in  the  alphabetical 
order  of  their  German  names,  commencing  with  Kornrade,  Agrostemma 
Githago,  and  closing  with  Sandelholz,  red  saunders.  Among  the  more  im- 
portant or  interesting  articles  we  mention  coto  bark,  oil  of  rose  geranium 
<?roton  seed  and  oil,  cubebs,  lac,  dandelion,  almonds  and  their  products, 
manna,  mints,  ergot,  myrobalans,  cloves,  allspice,  hellebore,  veratrum, 
olives,  opium,  balsam  of  Peru,  pepper,  ({uassia,  rhatany,  rhubarb,  oil  of  rose, 
and  others. 
Die  Naturgeschichte  des  Co  jus  PHnius  Secimdus.    Leipzig  :  Gressner  &  # 
Schramm.    15,  16  Lieferung. 
Parts  15  and  16  of  the  German  translation  by  Professor  Wittstein,  of 
Plinius'  Natural  History,  complete  the  work  and  the  appendix  thereto,  the 
latter  comprising  a  full  and  classified  index,  which  greatly  facilitates  the 
consulting  of  the  work.  The  references  and  explanatory  notes  added  in 
the  text  by  Professor  Wittstein,  enhance  the  interest  of  the  latter.  The  im- 
portance and  value  of  the  only  work  of  the  ancient  Roman  author  that  has 
reached  us,  consists  in  its  being  a  full  exposition  of  the  arts  and  sciences  at 
the  beginning  of  the  Christian  era.  Scientific  researches,  as  understood  at 
the  present  time,  were  then  unknown,  and  the  deductions  made  from  ob- 
servations were  more  easily  inclined  to  erring ;  but  Plinius  was  a  keen 
observer  and  far  in  advance  of  the  superstitions  of  most  of  his  cotempo- 
raries,  so  that  a  great  deal  contained  in  his  work  remains  correct  even  when 
tested  by  the  present  extent  of  our  knowledge.  In  preparing  the  transla- 
tion. Professor  Wittstein  has  consulted  the  works  of  most  other  com  men- 
