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that  is  pleasing,  and  there  can  be  no  question  but  that  students, 
investigators  and  manufacturers  will  find  that  these  volumes  contain 
just  such  information  as  is  frequently  lacking  in  many  of  the  text 
and  reference  books  on  this  subject. 
King's  American  Dispensatory.  New  edition.  Entirely  re- 
written and  enlarged.  By  Harvey  W.  Felter  and  John  Uri  Lloyd. 
Two-volume  edition,  royal  octavo,  containing  together  2,284  pages, 
including  complete  indices.  Cloth,  $4.50  per  volume,  postpaid. 
t  Sheep,  $5  per  volume,  postpaid.  The  Ohio  Valley  Company, 
publishers,  Cincinnati,  O. 
Volume  I  of  this  work  appeared  in  1898  and  a  brief  mention  of 
it  was  made  in  this  Journal,  1898,  p.  580.  Volume  I  includes 
substances  from  A-G  and  contains  904  pages.  Volume  II  includes 
substances  from  G-Z  inclusive  and  contains  1,267  pages.  Volume 
II  is  an  improvement  over  Volume  I  in  editorial  work  as  well  as  in 
the  use  of  paper  and  typographical  work.  The  treatment  of  the 
eclectic  materia  medica  is  the  best  part  of  the  book,  and  it  is  in  this 
particular  field  that  the  work  is  a  valuable  contribution  to  materia 
medica.  The  student  and  investigator  who  is  anxious  to  know 
more  about  the  possibilities  of  the  cultivation  of  medicinal  plants  in 
America  will  find  numerous  valuable  hints,  as  under  podophyllum  : 
"  May-apple  is  hardy  and  will  thrive  in  fence  corners  of  cultivated 
fields,  often  resisting  the  advances  of  agricultural  improvements, 
when  other  common  fence-weeds  have  been  exterminated.  It  is 
not,  as  is  the  case  with  many  other  valuable  medicinal  plants,  likely 
to  be  soon  eradicated."  Under  hydrastis  we  read  :  "  With  hydrastis, 
however,  the  opposite  is  true ;  the  plant  disappears  as  soon  as  the 
ground  is  disturbed  by  the  settler."  There  are  many  things  re- 
corded that  one  would  have  difficulty  in  ascertaining,  as  literature 
"  is  so  scattered  and  references  become  more  and  more  difficult  to 
look  up.  The  new  edition  of  King's  Dispensatory  will  be  much 
appreciated  by  those  who  have  been  anxiously  waiting  its  appear- 
ance and  it  will  prove  a  valuable  adjunct  to  the  reference  library 
of  the  physician  and  pharmacist. 
Cinchona  Barks  of  the  New  York  Market  was  the  subject  of  a  paper 
by  J.  H.  Stallman  at  an  evening  meeting  at  the  College  of  Pharmacy  of  the 
city  of  New  York  on  January  15th.  The  paper  was  discussed  by  Professor  H. 
H.  Rushy,  well  known  for  his  studies  on  cinchona,  coca  and  other  vegetable 
drugs,  and  Adolph  Henning. 
