Reviews. 
f Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I  Marcb,190l. 
American  Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science  is  one 
which  commends  itself  to  all  professional  organizations,  as  it  tends 
to  relieve  the  President  of  performing  more  than  one  series  of  du- 
ties each  year.  The  President  is  elected  at  one  meeting,  presides 
at  the  following  meeting  and  delivers  his  presidential  address  the 
next  succeeding  year.  This,  however,  does  not  do  away  with  the 
necessity  of  his  presiding  at  one  of  the  meetings,  and,  should  he  not 
be  a  parliamentarian  or  desire  to  qualify  himself  as  such,  places  him 
in  an  unpleasant  position. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Proceedings  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  at 
the  forty-eighth  annual  meeting,  held  at  Richmond,  Va.,  May, 
1900.    Baltimore:  1900. 
A  succinct  account  of  the  Richmond  meeting  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association  has  already  been  given  the  readers  of  this 
Journal  (see  Vol.  LXXII,  p.  291).  The  full  account  of  the  meet- 
ing, with  papers  and  discussions  as  well  as  a  number  of  addresses, is 
given  in  344  pages  of  the  proceedings  just  published.  In  517  pages 
is  given  the  report  on  the  progress  of  pharmacy,  from  July  i,  1899, 
to  June  30,  1900.  The  remainder  of  the  proceedings  is  devoted  to 
a  list  of  members,  constitution  and  by-laws  and  other  matters  ot 
interest  to  members.  There  are  few,  if  any,  associations  in  which  the 
members  receive  greater  value  from  their  membership  than  that  of 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  From  the  viewpoint 
of  a  business  transaction,  it  is  one  of  the  best  investments  the 
apothecary  can  make. 
Inorganic  General  Medical  and  Pharmaceutical  Chemistry. 
Theoretical  and  Practical.  A  Text-Book  and  Laboratory  Manual, 
containing  Theoretical,  Descriptive  and  Technological  Chemistry  ; 
Class  Exercises  in  Chemical  Equations  and  Mathematics ;  and  Prac- 
tical Manufacturing  Processes  for  Five  Hundred  Chemical  Prepara- 
tions, with  Explanatory  Notes.  By  Oscar  Oldberg.  In  two 
volumes.    Chicago:  Chicago  Medical  Book  Company.  1900. 
For  the  student  who  desires  to  get  at  the  fundamental  principles 
underlying  theoretical  chemistry,  the  work  of  Professor  Oldberg 
will  be  a  decided  help.    The  language  is  succinct,  clear  and  ta 
