288  Reviews,  etc  {''"'•liaT.fso"""- 
Du  Thapsia  Garganica  on  Bouneja  des  Arabes.    Par  Charles  Blanchet.  Montpellier, 
1880.    8vo,  pp.  73. 
This  essay  contahis  the  history  of  the  specie>  named,  its  uses  and  chemistry.  The 
author  has  also  investigated  a  false  thapsia,  which  is  the  root  of  Ferula  nodiflora, 
Lin.  s.f  Fer.  communis,  Desf.^  and  described  a  number  of  allied  species. 
Sixteenth  Annual  Report  of  the  Alumni  Association^  with  the  exercises  of  the  Fifty - 
Ninth  Commencement  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  1880.  8vo, 
PP-  59- 
The  pamphlet  contains  various  addresses,  minutes,  lists  of  members  and  graduates, 
etc.  The  officers  for  the  current  year  are  Hugh  Campbell,  President  5  Wm.  W. 
Moorhead  and  Henry  Trimble,  Vice-Presidents  5  W.  E.  Krewson  (8th  and  Mont- 
gomery Av'e.)  Recording  Secretary  ;  L.  E.  Sayre,  Corresponding  Secretary,  and 
Edward  C.  Jones  (15th  and  Market  Sts.)  Treasurer.  Copies  of  the  various  annual 
reports  may  be  obtained  from  the  Recording  Secretary  or  Treasurer  on  enclosing  to 
either  one  of  these  officers  10  cts.  per  copy,  to  pay  for  postage,  etc. 
T--iventy-third  Annual  Report  of  the  Council  of  tJie  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Victoria^ 
1880,  with  list  of  members  and  honorary  members.     Melbourne,  1880. 
First  Report  of  the  Pharmacy  Board  of  Victoria.    Melbourne,  1880. 
There  are  now  607  pharmaceutical  chemists  on  the  register.  Thus  far  eight  con- 
victions under  the  pharmacy  act  have  been  obtained  for  carrying  on  business  with- 
out being  registered. 
The  Pharmaceutical  Register  for  1879.    Melbourne,  1880. 
It  contains  the  list  of  registered  pharmacists,  apprentices,  etc.,  with  residence,  date 
of  qualification,  etc. 
Nineteenth  Annual  Report  of  the  Philadelphia  Drug  Exchange.  1880. 
The  officers  for  the  current  year  are  H.  B.  Rosengarten,  President  5  John  Fergus- 
son,  Vice-President  j  H.  C.  \TcIlvaine,  Secretary,  and  Edward  H.  Hance,  Treasurer. 
Thirteenth  Annual  Report  of  the  Alexian  Brothers  Hospital^  Chicago,  Ills.,  for  the 
year  ending  Dec.  31st.  1879. 
Muscle-Beating:,  or  active  and  passive  Home  Gymnastics  for  healthy  and  unhealthy 
people.  By  C.  Klemm,  Manager  of  the  Gymnastic  Institution  in  Riga,  With 
illustrations.    New  York:  M.  L.  Holbrook  &  Co.    1879.  Pp-  5^-  Price  30  cts. 
Electricity  in  Medicine  and  Surgery^  <ivith  Cases  to  Illustrate.    By  John  J.  Caldwell, 
M.T>.\  Baltimore,  Md. 
Reprint  from  "  Gailiard's  Medical  Journal,"  March. 
Kreuznach,  its  Celebrated  Bromide-ioduretted  Elizabeth    Spring   and  Mother-lye . 
Kreuznach,  1880. 
