528 
Reviews^  etc. 
Am.  Jour.  Phann. 
Oct.,  1880. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Proceedings  of  the  California  Pharmaceutical  Society  and  College  of  Pharmacy^  and 
Report  of  the  Ele'venth  Annual  Meetings  held  at  San  Francisco,  Jan.  9,  1880. 
It  contains  the  valedictory  addresses  delivered  at  tlie  commencement  exercises^ 
November  16,  1879. 
Proceedings  of  the  Connecticut  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  the  Fourth  Annual  Meet- 
ings held  in  New  Haven,  Feb.  4,  1880.     Pp.  75. 
Among  the  papers  read  at  the  meeting  and  published  we  notice  two  lists  of  medi- 
cinal plants  of  Connecticut,  which  supplement  each  other.  In  one  of  ihe  lists  we 
find  Angelica  archangelica  mentioned  as  growing  in  fields  and  damp  places ;  we 
suppose  that  Archangelica  atropurpurea,  Hoffm.,  is  intended,  which  is  indigenous  ta 
New  England  and  Canada. 
Proceedings  of  the  Second  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Texas  State  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion, held  in  the  City  of  Galveston,  May  13  and  14,  1880. 
The  reports  of  officers  and  committees  are  of  general  interest  to  the  pharmacists, 
of  the  State. 
Proceedings  of  the  Nenv  York  State  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  the  ^econd  Annual 
Meetings  held  in  Syracuse  May  19  and  20,  1880.    Pp.  146. 
A  brief  account  of  the  pioceedings  has  been  published  on  page  373  of  the  pre- 
sent volume.    The  pamphlet  contains  the  stenographic  report  of  the  discussions. 
Proceedings  of  the  Tenth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Neiv  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Associa^ 
tion,  held  in  Jersey  City,  May  19  and  20,  1880. 
The  pamphlet  contains  some  interestmg  papers  ;  in  one,  giving  a  list  of  medicinal 
plants,  we  notice  an  error,  the  botanical  name  of  American  jalap  being  given  as 
Ipomoea  jalapa  instead  of  Ipomcea  pandurata. 
Proceedings  of  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  its  Third  Annual  Meet- 
ing, held  in  Allentown,  June  8  and  9,  1880.    Pp.  74. 
An  account  of  the  transactions  will  be  found  on  page  379.  The  pamphlet  con- 
tains a  copy  of  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Revision  of  the  U.  S.  Pharma- 
copoeia, covering  30  printed  pages.  This  is  the  only  report  presented  to  the  Conven- 
tion at  Washington  by  a  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.  A  very  good  likeness 
of  the  first  President  of  the  Association,  Mr.  Chas.  A.  Heinitsh,  is  published  with 
the  "  Proceedings." 
Proceedings  oj  the  Wisconsin  Pharmaceutical  Association.   First  Annual  Meeting,  held 
in  Madison,  July  14  and  15,  1880. 
We  congratulate  our  friends  in  Wisconsin  on  the  organization  of  their  State  soci- 
ety. It  is  pleasing  to  observe  that  one  State  alter  another  is  wheeling  into  line,  and 
before  long  every  State  in  the  Ui.ion  will  have  its  pharmaceutical  ajsociation,  witlt 
annual  reunions  for  the  fuitherance  of  the  cause  of  pharmacy. 
