Am.  jour.  Pharm.  ?       News  Items  and  Book  Reviews  663 
Sept.,  1921.       )  „ 
NEWS  ITEMS  AND  PERSONAL  NOTES 
Dr.  Alsberg  Retires  From  U.  S.  Bureau  of  Chemistry. — 
Dr.  Carl  L.  Alsberg,  who  has  been  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Chemis- 
try of  the  U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture  since  19 12,  has  retired 
from  that  office. 
He  has  attached  himself  to  the  Ford  Research  Institute  of^ 
Stanford  University,  California,  where,  with  other  investigators 
working  along  associated  lines,  problems  in  Ford  Chemistry  and 
Nutrition  will  be  worked  out. 
His  place  in  the  Bureau  of  Chemistry  will  be  temporarily  filled, 
at  least,  by  Walter  G.  Campbell,  who  has  been  appointed  Acting 
Chief.  Mr.  Campbell  has  been  closely  associated  with  the  work  of 
the  Bureau  since  1907,  and  for  some  time  has  been  Assistant  Chief 
under  Dr.  Alsberg. 
Dr.  W.  W.  Skinner,  Chief  of  the  Water  and  Beverage  Labora- 
tory since  1908,  has  been  named  Assistant  Chief  of  the  Bureau. 
book  reviews 
"Bulletin  of  the  New  York  Botanical  Garden."  By  H.  H. 
Rusby.  2:1-318.  April,  1921. 
This  volume  is  a  guide  to  the  Economic  Museum  of  the  New 
York  Botanical  Garden,  which  has  been  established  to  furnish  illus- 
trations of  useful  plant  products,  and  wherever  possible,  choice 
specimens  of  the  plant  yielding  them.  Dr.  Rusby  points  out  in  the 
introduction  that  to  a  large  extent,  the  collection  represents  aborig- 
inal as  well  as  domestic  customs  and  uses,  that  the  articles  exhibited 
have  positive  authentication,  and  that  at  great  labor  and  expense 
large  amounts  of  material  preserved  for  the  most  part  in  formalde- 
hyde solutions  are  present  in  the  museum  for  study  and  observa- 
tion.   The  museum  now  contains  8000  articles. 
