5§4 
Book  Reviews. 
5  Am.  Jour,  Pharm. 
(     August,  1921. 
Dr.  Robert  P.  Fischelis  Is  Elected  Dean  of  the  New 
Jersey  College  of  Pharmacy. — At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees of  the  New  Jersey  College  of  Pharmacy  held  June  29,  192 1,  Dr. 
Robert  P.  Fischelis  was  unanimously  elected  Dean  and  Professor  oi 
Practical  and  Commercial  Pharmacy  in  that  institution.  He  suc- 
ceeds Dr.  P.  E.  Hommell  who  has  been  made  Dean  Emeritus,  and 
who  will  continue  as  Professor  of  Materia  Medica,  Botany  and 
Physiology. 
Dr.  Fischelis  will  continue  his  work  as  a  consulting  chemist 
with  offices  in  the  Metropolitan  Building,  New  York  City,  and  will 
probably  continue  his  lectures  on  Commercial  Pharmacy  in  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  and  Science,  with  whose  faculty 
he  has  been  associated  since  the  merger  of  the  Medicochirurgical 
College  Pharmacy  Department  with  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy  and  Science. 
BOOK  REVIEWS 
"The  Elements  of  Vegetable  Histology."  By  C.  W.  Ballard. 
John  Wiley  &  Sons,  Inc.,  New  York,  192 1  ■  46  pp.,  75  illustra- 
tions. 
The  text  covers  to  some  extent  the  subject  of  microtechnique 
(involving  the  principles  of  infiltration,  cutting,  staining,  etc.),  the 
microscope,  the  plant  cell  and  its  contents,  the  covering  supporting 
and  conducting  tissues  and  the  tissues  of  synthesis.  There  also  ap- 
pear chapters  on  the  root,  stem,  leaf,  flower,  fruit  and  seed.  At  the 
rear  of  the  volume  is  a  chapter  on  the  various  accessories  of  the  mic- 
roscope such  as  the  mechanical  stage  the  occular  micrometer,  the 
camera  lucida,  etc.,  and  lastly,  there  follows  an  appendix  of  formulae, 
table  of  magnifications,  etc. 
The  text  shows  a  number  of  weaknesses.  In  the  first  place, 
there  is  a  lack  of  clarity  on  certain  points.  Second,  there  is  a  dearth 
of  suitable  pharmacognostical  illustrations  and  references.  And  finally 
many  of  the  illustrations  present  (excepting  those  which  have  been 
