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Reviews^  etc. 
(Am  Jour.  Pharm 
t      Feb.,  1880. 
A  report  of  the  meeting,  which  was  held  at  Princeton,  May  21  and  22,  will  be 
found  in  our  July  number.  The  pamphlet  contains,  in  addition  to  the  minutes,  the 
papers  read,  and  an  interesting  and  instructive  report  on  pharmaceutical  legislation 
in  New  Jersey. 
Proceedings  of  the  Ohio  State  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  its  first  meeting,  held  in 
Columbus,  September  2d,  1879.    Cleveland,  1879.    ^^o,  pp.  16. 
An  account  of  the  organization  of  this  society  will  be  found  in  our  October 
number. 
Proceedings  of  the  Western  Wholesale  Drug  Association^  in  convention  at  Milwaukee, 
Nov.  13th  and  14th,  1879.         Paul:  John  J  Lemon.    8vo,  pp.  48. 
The  objects  of  the  association  are  to  create  a  permanent  social  feeling  between 
the  wholesale  druggists,  to  obliterate  the  feeling  of  jealousy  and  distrust  that  seems 
to  exist,  to  correct  excessive  and  unmercantile  competition,  to  remove  by  concert  of 
action  all  evils  and  customs  against  good  policy  and  sound  business  principles,  and 
to  establish  rules  and  regulations,  that  all  differences  and  grievances  may  be  fairly 
and  equitably  adjusted. 
The  officers  for  the  current  year  arc  :  President,  Dr.  H.  H.  Button,  Milwaukee. 
Vice-Presidents — J  C.  Richardson,  St.  Louis  j  W.  A.  Robinson,  Louisville;  S.  A. 
Toiman,  Chicago ;  Geo.  A.  Kelly,  Pittsburgh.  Treasurer,  S.  M.  Strong,  Cleve- 
land    Secretary,  D.  R.  Noyes,  St.  Paul. 
"The  Chemists'' and  Druggists'"  Diary.    1880.    London.  4to. 
This  issue  is  accompanied  by  a  map  of  the  city  of  London. 
l^he  Physician's  Hand-book  for  1880.  By  William  Elmer,  M.D.,  and  Albert  D. 
Elmer,  M.D.  New  York:  W.  A.  Townsend,  Publisher.  i6mo,  pp.  314.  Price, 
^1.75. 
The  first  134  pages  are  printed  matter,  giving  brief  information  on  diseases,  poi- 
sons, properties  of  remedies,  etc.;  the  remaining  portion  is  prepared  so  as  to  be 
conveniently  used  by  the  physician  for  recording  his  professional  engagements,  for 
which  purpose  it  appears  to  be  well  adapted.  It  is  suitably  bound  in  morocco  with 
tucks,  and  may  be  conveniently  carried  in  the  pocket. 
Ueber  die  Wirkung  einiger  Antiseptica  und  ^er^andter  Stoffe  auf  Hefe.  Inaugural- 
Dissertation  von  Woldemar  Werncke,  Dorpat,  1879.    ^^o,  pp.  99. 
On  the  action  of  certain  antiseptics  and  allied  bodies  upon  yeast. 
A  large  number  of  experiments  were  made  with  a  liquid  containing  i  gram  of 
compressed  yeast  (dry  residue  ='246  gram)  in  10  cc.  of  water,  and  its  efficacy  was 
proven  to  be  fully  equal  to  fresh  surface  yeast  with  an  equal  weight  of  dry  residue. 
It  was  found  that  the  following  compounds  completely  destroyed  the  efficacy  of  the 
yeast  liquid  when  used  in  the  proportions  indicated.  Corrosive  sublimate  i  :  42*800, 
