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ical  laboratories  of  Harvard  College  and  of  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology, and  a  number  of  papers  on  subjects  connected  with  physics,  chemistry 
mineralogy,  algebra,  &c. 
Forty  sixth  Annual  Report  of  the  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Public  Schools  to  the  Mayor 
and  City  Council  of  Baltimore.    8vo,  pp.  i88. 
A  well-digested  report,  containing  much  information  to  the  friends  of  education 
concerning  the  public  schools  of  the  Monumental  City. 
Bulletin  of  the  Bussey  Institution  (Jamaica  Plain,  Boston),  part  IV.    Cambridge  : 
Press  of  John  Wilson  &  Son.    1875.    ^vo,  pp.  88. 
It  contains  a  paper  by  Prof  D.  D,  Slade  on  "Applied  zoology,  and  its  importance 
to  the  practical  agriculturist  5"  the  "  Report  of  the  director  of  the  Arnold  arbor- 
etum 5"  "  On  the  potato  rot,"  by  Prof.  W.  G.  Farlow,  and  several  essays  detailing 
researches  in  agricultural  chemistry,  by  Prof.  F.  H.  Storer. 
Medical  Addresses.    By  Benjamin  Eddy  Cotting,  A.M.,  M.D.    Boston  :  David 
Clapp  &  Son.    1875.    i2mo,  pp.  123. 
The  addresses  which  were  delivered  before  the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society 
are  entitled  :  "  Nature  in  disease  "  Disease,  a  part  of  the  plan  of  creation,"  and 
"My  first  question  as  a  medical  student— its  solution  a  sure  basis  for  rational  ther- 
apeutics." About  30  pages  of  explanatory  notes  and  notes  of  reference  are  ap- 
pended. 
Fourteenth  Annual  Report  of  the  City  Hospital  to  the  Mayor  of  Cincinnati,  for  the  year 
ending  December  31st,  1874.    '^'vo,  pp.  56. 
This  official  report  gives  a  full  account  of  this  hospital,  and  the  expenses  con- 
nected therewith  during  the  past  year.  We  learn  that  the  total  number  of  patients 
treated  was  6,597  j  the  prescriptions  put  up,  29,053,  at  an  actual  cost  of  ^^5,3 13.15, 
and  the  total  expenses,  $85,589  48,  from  which  sum  $10,343.63  is  to  be  deducted 
as  having  been  received  from  pay  patients,  &c. 
On  Spasmodic   Urethral  Stricture.    By  F.  N.  Otis,  M.D.,  Clinical  Professor  of 
Genito-urinary  Diseases  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  New  York, 
G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.    1875.    8vo,  pp.  15. 
A  reprint  from  the  "Archives  of  Dermatology." 
Untersuchungen  aus  dem  Pharmaceutischen  Institute  in  Dorpat.    Von  Ed.  Marquis, 
8vo,  pp.  22. 
Researches  from  the  Pharmaceutical  Institute  at  Dorpat. 
This  pamphlet  contains  the  interesting  essay  on  "  Sarsaparilla,"  of  which  a  short 
abstract  has  been  given  on  page  264  of  our  June  number. 
Gmelin-Kraufs  Handbuch  der  Chemie.    Anorganische  Chemie.    Sechste  ungearbeitete 
Auflage.    Heidelberg:  Carl  Winter's  Universitats-Buchhandlung. 
Since  our  last  notice  of  this  new  edition  now  in  progress  of  publication  [see 
"Amer.  Journ.  Pharm.,"  1874,  p.  494),  the  following  numbers  have  appeared  :  Nos. 
4  and  5  of  vol.  I,  part  I,  treating  of  the  physical  laws  relating  to  gases,  and  con- 
taining, also,  the  beginning  of  the  chapter  on  crystallography;  Nos.  i  to  4  of  vol. 
