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Book  Reviews. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
May,  1921. 
Year-Book  of  Pharmacy.   Published  by  J.  and  A.  Churchill.  Lon- 
•   don,  1920 ;  594  pages.  • 
This  is  an  annual  British  publication  containing  abstract  of 
papers  contributed  to  scientific  journals,  together  with  the  trans- 
actions of  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference  held  in  Liverpool  in 
July  of  1920. 
The  first  347  pages  of  this  book  are  devoted  to  the  abstracts  re- 
lating to  pharmacy,  materia  medicaid  chemistry  of  drugs.  These 
were  selected  from  contributions  to  scientific  journals  during  the 
period  from  July  1,  1919,  to  June  30,  1920.  While  the  great  majority 
of  the  abstracts  are  taken  from  European  periodicals,  quite  a  large 
number  of  them  are  found  to  be  of  American  origin. 
The  plan  of  the  book  is  unique.  The  abstracts  dealing  with 
chemistry  are  arranged  first  and  these  are  divided  into  convenient 
sub-sections.  This  is.  followed  by  the  sections  on  materia  medica  and 
pharmacy,  each  being  divided  into  sub-groups  according  to  the  nature 
of  the  abstract.  : 
Then  follows  an  interesting  and  useful  research  list  covering 
several  pages.  It  is  probable  that  some  of  the  suggestions  found  here 
have  already  been  taken  up  for  investigation. 
The  remainder  of  the  book  contains  the  transactions  of  the 
British  Pharmaceutical  Conference  of  1920.  In  the  scientific  section 
of  this  part  are  found  many  communications  and  discussions  which 
directly  concern  the  pharmacist  and  the  pharmaceutical  chemist.  At 
the  close  of  these  transactions  is  found  a  list  of  the  members  of  the 
conference. 
The  book  is  thoroughly  indexed  and  represents,  in  condensed 
form,  practically  all  the  year's  work  accomplished  in  pharmacy  and 
its  allied  sciences.  It  certainly  merits  recommendation  to  the  Amer- 
ican as  well  as  the  British  pharmacist  and  analyst  as  an  excellent 
book  for  reference. 
E.  J.  H. 
