236  Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notices.  {^"^-AtyiS^t^' 
valuable  work,  which,  with  its  comprehensive  arrangement,  its  clear  language,  its 
judicious  criticisms  and  its  numerous  illustrations,  will  constitute  it  a  valuable  addi- 
tion to  the  library  of  the  zealous  student. 
Bot  anise  her  Jahreshericht.  Systematisch  geordnetes  Repertorium  der  botanischen 
Literatur  aller  Lander.  Herausgegeben  von  Dr.  Leopold  Just,  Professor  in  Carls- 
ruhe.  Erster  Jahrgang  (1873),  Berlin  :  J875.  Gebriider  Borntrasger.  8vo.  pp. 
744- 
Annual  Report  on  Botany.  A  systematically  arranged  repertory  of  the  botan- 
ical literature  of  all  countries. 
This,  we  believe,  is  the  first  attempt  to  collect  and  report  on  the  botanical  publi- 
cations which  have  appeared  in  the  course  of  a  year.  This  branch  of  scientific 
literature  is  by  far  too  extensive  as  that  every  student  of  botany  should  be  able  to 
acquaint  himself  with  all  the  publications  which,  in  the  shape  of  books  or  in  period- 
icals, are  continually  appearing  in  civilized  countries.  The  undertaking  is,  there- 
fore, a  most  praiseworthy  one,  meriting  the  support  of  the  botanist  for  the  above 
reasons  as  well  as  because  the  task  has,  in  this  first  volume,  been  accomplished  in 
such  a  commendable  manner. 
The  vast  material  has  been  judiciously  divided,  each  branch  having  been  assigned 
to  a  different  botanist,  and  containing  references  to  the  publications  in  the  German, 
French  and  English  languages,  while  the  entire  botanical  literature  in  the  Dutch, 
Italian,  Russian  and  Hungarian  languages  are  specially  reported  on. 
We  have  not  the  space  to  enter  more  minutely  into  the  arrangement  and  object  of 
this  publication  ;  we  may  be  permitted,  however,  to  state  that  the  list  of  contents  em- 
braces 30  pages,  and  that  the  chapter  on  pharmaceutical  botany  has  been  reported  by 
Professor  Fliickiger. 
Eleventh  Annual  Report  of  the  Alumni  Association  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy. 1875.  8vo,  pp.  52. 
Besides  extracts  from  the  Minutes,  several  reports,  lists  of  officers  and  graduates, 
&c.,  the  pamphlet  contains  the  Introductory  Address  of  Professor  Remington  to  the 
fifty-fourth  course  of  lectures,  the  Valedictory  of  Professor  Maisch  and  the  Annual 
Address  before  the  Alumni  Association  by  Laurence  Turnbull,  Ph.  G.,  M.  D. 
We  have  not  the  space  to  publish  these  addresses,  which  contain  many  interesting 
statements  5  but  a  passage  in  the  latter  seems  to  call  for  a  few  remarks  in  this  place. 
Speaking  of  the  late  Professor  Parrish,  Dr.  Turnbull  remarked  : 
"This  was  the  first  time  a  non-medical  man  filled  the  chair  of  Materia  Medica  irn 
this  College,  and  we  regret  the  change  for  three  reasons :  first,  therapeutics  and 
toxicology  are  less  dwelt  upon  than  formerly  (more  time  being  devoted  to  the  lead- 
ing physical  characteristics  of  each  individual  drug  and  its  commercial  history)  f 
secondly,  it  is  therefore  less  a  preparatory  school  for  medical  students  j  thirdly,  it  is 
no  longer  a  training  school  to  supply  professors  to  our  medical  institutions." 
Whatever  views  may  be  held,  regarding  the  necessity  for  the  apothecary,  of  a 
thorough  knowledge  of  the  physiological  action  of  medicines  upon  man  and  animals, 
it  must  be  certainly  granted  that  a  knowledge  of  the  botanical,  physical,  histological, 
chemical  and  commercial  relations  and  of  the  proper  doses  of  drugs,  is  of  by  far 
greater  importance  to  the  apothecary  and  druggist.  Outside  of  the  United  States, 
physicians  are  only  in  exceptional  cases  appointed  as  teachers  of  pharmacognosy,  as 
they  cannot  be  conversant  with  drugs  unless  they  have  made  these  their  special  study 
for  years.  Regarding  the  two  last  points  raised  by  Dr.  Turnbull,  we  believe  that 
the  Colleges  of  Pharmacy  were  not  established  for  the  purposes  indicated.  It  may 
perhaps  be  of  advantage  to  the  medical  student  to  become  acquainted  with  chem- 
istry, pharmacy  and  Materia  Medica,  as  taught  from  the  standpoint  of  the  pharm- 
acist and  druggist  \  but  if  it  be  true  that  the  efficiency  of  a  teacher  is  likely  to  in- 
crease with  his  experience,  we  cannot  understand  why  colleges  of  pharmacy  should 
be  or  become  training  schools  to  supply  other  institutions  with  professors. 
Outlines  of  Proximate  Organic  Analysis^  for  the  identification,  separation  and  quan- 
