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of  the  pharmaceutical  department  of  the  operations  of  the  War  Office,  a 
subject  not  touched  upon  in  this  circular  except  where  it  alludes  to  medi- 
cal wagons,  medical  knapsacks  and  chests  and  other  arrangements  for 
holding  and  conveying  medical  supplies  on  the  field.  We  hope  the  de- 
partment will  include  a  full  history  of  the  Medical  Purveying  operations, 
Laboratories,  Storekeeping,  Hospital  Stewards  and  the  pharmaceutical 
service  in  local  Hospitals  in  their  work,  if  it  should  go  on,  and  do  full  jus- 
tice to  the  numerous  body  of  young  men  who  were  in  this  service  with 
little  emolument  during  the  war,  and  we  shall  be  much  pleased  to  receive, 
as  occasion  offers,  any  publications  bearing  on  this  subject  that  may  be 
issued  by  the  Department. 
Transactions  of  the  Pennsylvania  Horticultural  Society  for  the  year 
1865.    Philadelphia,  1866,  pp.  96  octavo. 
This  interesting  pamphlet,  for  which  we  are  indebted  to  Mr.  James, 
contains  the  address  of  D.  Rodney  King,  President  of  the  Society,  and 
the  transactions  during  the  year.  The  latter  part  of  the  volume  consists 
of  essays  contributed  by  members  on  various  subjects  connected  with 
Horticulture.  Among  them  we  notice  the  following  :  On  Pear  Culture,  by 
Robert  Cornelius,  of  Philadelphia ;  On  the  Odors  of  Flowers,  by  A.  W. 
Harrison ;  A  glance  at  the  Flora  of  the  Carboniferous  period,  by  Dr. 
Horatio  C.  Wood,  Jr. ;  On  Ferns  and  Mosses,  by  Thomas  P.James,  Pro- 
fessor of  Botany  to  the  Society  ;  and,  finally,  an  interesting  report  on  the 
Curculio,  by  Prof.  S.  S.  Rathvon,  of  Lancaster.  The  plan  of  publishing 
reports  and  essays  is  a  good  one,  and  should  be  continued  and  extended. 
We  hope  to  avail  ourselves  of  extracts  from  its  pages  in  a  future  number. 
Books  and  New  Medical  Journals  received  ; — 
Biographical  sketches  of  distinguished  living  New  York  Surgeons.  By 
Samuel  W.  Francis,  A.  M.,  M.  D.,  Fellow  of  the  New  York  Academy. 
Reprinted  from  the  Philadelphia  Med.  and  Surg.  Reporter.  New 
York,  published  by  John  Bradshaw,  1866,  pp.  220  12mo. 
The  Detroit  Review  of  Medicine  and  Pharmacy,  edited  by  Geo.  P. 
Andrew,  M.D.,  Samuel  P.  Duffield,  Ph.  D.,  and  Edward  W.  Jenks,  M.  D. 
Vol.  i.  No.  1.  April,  1866. 
The  Savannah  Journal  of  Medicine,  edited  by  Uriah  Harriss,  M.D.,  J.  B. 
Read,  M.  D.,  J.  G.  Thomas,  M.  D.  Vol.  v.  Nos.  1  and  2.  Bi-monthly,  com- 
mencing Jan.  1,  1866. 
The  Medical  Reporter,  a  semi- monthly  Record  of  Medicine  and  Surgery, 
edited  by  W.  B.  Alleyne,  M.  D.,  and  0.  F.  Potter,  M.  D.  St.  Louis,  March 
15,  1866,  vol.  i.  Nos.  2  and  3. 
The  Medical  Record,  a  semi-monthly  Journal  of  Medicine  and  Surgery. 
New  York,  March  15,  1866,  vol.  i.  Nos.  1  and  2,  pp.  24 ;  edited  by  George 
F.  Shrady,  M.  D. 
The  New  York  J^ancet,  a  family  Medical  Journal,  vol.  i.  No.  5,  March  15. 
