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"foreign  manufacture."  On  cross-examination  it  was  made  to  appear 
that  the  very  capsules  on  which  the  suits  were  brought  were  made  by  the 
Paris  house  of  the  prosecutor  (!)  and  that  he  was  acting  in  a  double 
capacity.  The  suits  were  all  dismissed  with  costs  and  the  plaintiff  con- 
demned in  strong  terras  by  the  Vice  Chancellor. 
The  Eighth  Edition  of  the  American  Dispensatory  (Eclectic). — We 
have  received  a  circular  from  Messrs.  Wilstach,  Baldwin  &  Co.,  of  Cin- 
cinnati, stating  that  they  are  about  lo  publish  a  new  and  extended  edition 
of  Dr.  John  King's  work  on  Materia  iMedica,  ''The  American  Dispensa- 
tory, which  has  been  "  completely  revised  and  largely  re-written,"  in  one 
royal  octavo  volume  of  1440  pages — price,  $10.  From  the  long  delay 
which  has  occurred  it  is  probable  that  Dr.  King  has  made  many  changes 
and  additions. 
Archives  of  Ophthalmology  and  Otology.  Edited  and  published  simulta- 
neously in  English  and  German,  by  Prof.  H.  Knapp,  M.D.,  in  New 
York,  and  Prof.  S.  Moos,  M.D.,  in  Heidelberg.  Vol.  I,  No.  2.  New 
York :  William  Wood  &  Co.  Carlsruhe  ;  Chr.  Fr.  Muller'sche  Hof- 
buch-handlnng,  1870.    pp.  3.57. 
This  most  elegantly  gotten  up  of  the  medical  serials  makes  its  appear- 
ance in  No.  2,  thus  completing  the  volume  of  723  pages  with  eleven  plates 
besides  numerous  wood  cuts,  and  embraces  twenty-four  articles,  fourteen 
of  which  are  written  here  and  ten  in  Germany,  and  translated  here  for 
this  work.  The  growing  importance  of  the  specialities  of  which  it  treats 
renders  the  "  Archives"  a  valuable  addition  to  the  medical  library  of  the 
practising  physician.    The  price  of  the  work  is  $7.00  per  annum. 
The  American  Chemist :  a  monthly  journal  of  theoretical,  analytical  and 
technical  chemistry.  Edited  by  Charles  F.  Chandler,  Ph.D.,  and  W. 
H,  Chandler.  Published  monthly  in  numbers  of  forty  pages  each, 
royal  octavo,  by  William  Baldwin  k  Co.,  434  Broome  st ,  New  York. 
July  1st,  1870. 
Many  ol  our  readers  are  aware  that  a  reprint  of  the  Chemical  News,  a 
weekly  journal  of  Loudon,  edited  by  William  Crookes,  F.R.8.,  has  been 
republished  during  the  past  three  years  in  monthly  numbers  under  the 
same  name  with  a  supplement  of  American  origin.  The  proprietors  of  the 
American  Chemist  having  purchased  the  stock  and  other  interest  of  the 
reprint  of  the  Chemical  News,  "have  decided  to  advance  the  interests  of 
American  chemical  science,  by  the  publication  of  a  journal  which  shall 
be  a  medium  of  communication  for  all  practical,  thinking,  experimenting 
and  manufacturing  scientific  men  throughout  the  country,"  and  have 
placed  it  in  the  editorial  charge  of  Prof.  C.  F.  Chandler  and  W. 
Chandler  of  the  School  of  Mines,  New  York.  This  change  is  highly  im- 
portant, first  because  the  reprint  of  the  Chemical  News  did  not  fairly 
