Am.  Joiir.  Pharm."! 
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383 
The  Mississippi  State  Pharmaceutical  Association  was  revived 
at  Jackson,  June  12th.  The  officers  are  J.  W.  Eckford,  Aberdeen,  Presi- 
dent ;  J.  R.  Finlay,  Vice  President ;  H.  F.  West,  Fayette,  Secretary,  and 
F.  A.  Dicks,  Natchez,  Treasurer.    Sixty  members  were  enrolled. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
HuhharcV 8  Newspaper  and  Bank  Directory  of  the  World,  with  Gazetteer 
and  Atlas  comhined.  Edited  by  H.  P.  Hubbard,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
1882.    Two  volumes,  8vo,  pp.  2591.    Price  $10. 
We  have  had  this  directory  upon  our  desk  for  several  months  and  have 
frequently  examined  and  consulted  it,  and  the  more  we  have  seen  of  it,  the 
more  we  became  impressed  with  the  enormous  labor  and  the  great  care 
bestowed  upon  the  collection,  and  arrangement  of  the  material,  and  with 
the  lucid  and  comprehensive  manner  in  which  the  whole  is  presented  for 
use.  The  two  volumes  contain  the  names  and  descriptions  of  over  3->,000 
newspapers  and  periodicals,  and  15,000  banks  throughout  the  world,  em- 
bracing substantially  all  newspapers,  magazines  and  quarterlies  published 
upon  every  continent,  in  every  empire,  kingdom,  nation,  province  and 
island,  together  with  the  names  and  locations  of  the  leading  responsible 
banks  and  banking  institutions  of  every  country.  The  work  is  fully  sup- 
plied with  maps  and  with  gazetteer  information  of  all  countries,  and  while 
the  descriptions  of  the  several  States  of  the  United  States  of  America  are 
especially  full,  those  given  of  the  other  countries— large  and  small — are  full 
of  interest.  The  introduction  to  the  lists  of  periodicals  of  the  different 
countries  are  mostly  given  in  the  English,  French  and  German  languages, 
frequently  also  in  the  vernacular  of  the  country,  and  in  all  cases  not  only 
the  title  of  the  periodical  in  the  language  in  which  it  is  printed,  but  like- 
wise its  English  translation  is  given. 
It  is  impossible  to  adequately  describe  this  work,  but  we  may  say  that 
the  editor's  claims  are  fully  sustained,  when  he  states  it  to  be  at  once 
"unique,  comprehensive,  reliable,  useful  and  entertaining." 
Materia  Medica  for  Physicians  and  Students.  By  John  B.  Biddle,  M.D.,  etc. 
Ninth  edition.  Revised,  rewritten  and  enlarged  in  accordance  with  the 
sixth  revision  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia,  by  Clement  Biddle, 
M.D.,  U.S.N.  With  numerous  illustrations.  Philadelphia:  P.  Blakiston, 
Son  &  Co.,  1883.    8vo,  pp.  537.    Price,  cloth  $4.00,  sheep  $4.75. 
This  work  has  long  been  a  standard  text  book  for  medical  students. 
During  the  lifetime  of  the  late  Professor  Biddle  it  has  jDassed  through  eight 
editions,  which  have  been  noticed  in  former  volumes  of  this  Journal.  The 
present  edition  has  been  i^repared  by  Dr.  CI.  Biddle  and  Henry  Morris. 
Compared  with  former  editions  the  changes  are  numerous,  and  we  think, 
a-re  all  for  the  better.  The  most  important  changes  in  the  general  plan  of 
the  work  are  a  re-arrangement  of  the  classification  of  medicines,  and  the 
<3onsideration  of  the  actions  of  medicines  from  their  physiological  effects. 
A  number  of  unimportant  remedies  have  been  omitted,  others  lately 
introduced  have  been  added.    In  adapting  the  work  to  the  new  United 
