Am.  Jour  Pharin. 
July,  1892. 
Reviews. 
391 
Thirty-fifth  Annual  Report  of  the  Council  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of 
Australasia,  with  which  is  incorporated  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Vic- 
toria.   Melbourne,    1892.    Pp.  20. 
The  report  gives  a  bird's-eye  view  of  the  prosperous  condition  of  the  Society 
and  of  the  work  done  during  the  preceding  year. 
Proceedings  of  the  North  Dakota  Pharmaceutical  Association.  Sixth  annual 
meeting,  held  at  Fargo,  August  4  and  5,  1891.    Pp.  75. 
Six  of  the  papers  read  at  this  meeting  were  presented  by  the  late  Frank 
Frisby.  The  next  meeting  will  be  held  at  Fargo,  August  2,  1892.  I,.  Chris- 
tianson,  Fargo,  is  the  secretary. 
Proceedings  of  the  Ohio  State  Pharmaceutical  Association,  at  its  13th  annual 
meeting,  held  in  Dayton,  Juue  9-11,  1891,  etc.    Cleveland.    8vo.    Pp.  162. 
A  brief  report  of  the  transactions  will  be  found  in  our  last  volume,  p.  371. 
This  issue  is  embellished  with  the  portrait  of  the  late  A.  Mayell,  of  Cleveland. 
Catalogue  of  the  Hanbury  Herbarium,  in  the  Museum  of  the  Pharmaceutical 
Society  of  Great  Biitain.  Compiled  by  E.  M.  Holmes,  F.D.S.,  Curator  of  the 
Museum.    London.    1892.    Pp.  xiv  and  136. 
Those  interested  in  vegetable  materia  medica  will  appreciate  the  high  value 
of  this  publication,  which  gives  an  insight  into  the  patient  and  painstaking 
labor  of  the  late  Daniel  Hanbury,  in  his  pharmacognostical  researches.  The 
notes  added  by  the  critical  editor  supply  a  good  deal  of  explanatory  matter 
from  more  recent  observations,  and  show  that,  with  him,  this  was  a  labor 
of  love. 
State  Agricultural  Experiment  Station,  Amherst,  Mass.  Ninth  annual 
report  of  the  Board  of  Control,  for  1891.    Boston  :  1892.    Svo.    Pp.  352. 
It  comprises  reports  on  the  feeding  of  various  animals,  on  the  cultivation  of 
various  crops  under  different  conditions,  and  on  much  analytical  work  done 
during  the  year. 
Two  Addresses  upon  foseph  Leidy,  M.  D.,  DL.D.  By  William  Hunt,  M.D. 
8vo.    Pp.  60. 
A  Sketch  of  the  Life  of  foseph  Leidy,  M.D.,  LX.D.  By  W.  S.  W.  Ruschen- 
berger,  M.D.  Reprinted  from  Proceedings  of  the  American  Philosophical 
Society.    8vo.    Pp.  64. 
These  are  valued  contributions  towards  a  more  comprehensive  biography  of 
an  eminent  scientist.  The  second  pamphlet  contains  an  excellent  phototype 
portrait  of  the  deceased. 
Der  Schutz  des  Chloroforms  vor  Zersetzung  am  Licht  und  sein  erstes 
Vierteljahrhundert.  Zeitgemasse  historische  und  chemische  Studien  von  Dr. 
Ernst  Biltz,  Apotheker  in  Erfurt.    Erfurt :  A.  Stenger.    1892.    Pp  58. 
The  protection  of  chloroform  from  decomposition  on  exposure  to  light,  and 
its  first  quarter-century.    Appropriate  historic  and  chemical  studies. 
A  very  interesting  and  valuable  monograph,  in  which  the  influence  of  light 
in  the  presence  of  air  upon  pure  chloroform  is  shown,  as  well  as  the  partial 
protective  influence  of  alcohol,  and  the  absolute  protection  through  the 
exclusion  of  light ;  for  practical  purposes,  both  agencies  are  required  in  order 
to  preserve  chloroform  unaltered. 
