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Reviews. 
(  A.m.  Jour.  Pharm. 
1        Oct.,  1892. 
It  is  not  our  purpose  to  give  a  description  of  the  College  buildings  as  they 
appear  at  the  present  time  ;  we  shall  defer  this  until  the  internal  arrangements 
in  the  front  building  are  all  finished  for  occupancy  ;  we  may  now  mention  that 
other  changes,  not  mentioned  in  our  May  issue,  were  shown  to  be  desirable, 
and  accordingly  were  carried  out  during  the  summer.  The  most  important  of 
these  changes  is  the  location  of  the  boiler  house  for  the  heating,  ventilation, 
etc.,  of  the  buildings.  Instead  of  placing  the  boilers  under  one  of  the  three 
buildings  as  originally  contemplated,  it  was  found  to  be  more  desirable  to  erect 
a  fourth  building  two  stories  high,  in  the  northeast  corner  of  the  lot,  where 
the  annex  to  the  chemical  laboratory  had  been.  Thus,  in  addition  to  the  large 
boiler  room,  there  has  also  been  obtained  a  large  annex  to  the  chemical  labora- 
tory, and  an  annex  of  the  same  size  to  the  pharmaceutical  laboratory,  nearly 
doubling  the  previous  capacity  of  each  laboratory. 
The  pictures  of  the  front  building,  which  have  been  published  in  several 
journals,  are  very  fair  and  correct  representations,  taken  from  the  architect's 
drawings  ;  but  in  our  opinion  they  do  not  do  full  justice  to  the  imposing 
character  of  the  building  ;  we  have,  therefore,  preferred  to  defer  the  presenta- 
tion to  our  readers  of  a  picture  until  it  can  be  taken  from  the  finished  front. 
We  are  pleased  to  note  the  fact  that  the  work  on  the  buildings  has  progressed 
without  any  accident,  except  a  slight  fire  which  occurred  on  the  morning  of 
July  15th  from  spontaneous  combustion  among  some  material  stored  in  one  of 
the  laboratories.  A  hole  was  burned  through  the  floor,  but  the  fire  was  readily 
extinguished  by  means  of  a  portable  chemical  fire  engine,  and  the  damage 
done  was  slight. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES.  . 
fahresbericht,  1891.  Vereinigte  Fabriken  chemisch-pharmaceutischer  Pro- 
ducte.    Feuerbach-Stuttgart  and  Frankfurt  a.  M.    1892.    8vo.    Pp.  96. 
An  interesting  annual  report,  giving  not  only  the  commercial  conditions  of 
a  large  number  of  medicinal  chemicals,  mostly  of  organic  origin,  but  likewise 
brief  surveys  of'  their  therapeutic  applications. 
Mitteilungen  aus  dem  pharmaceuiischen  Institut  und  Laboratorium  fur 
angewandte  Chemie  der  Universitat  Erlangen,  von  A.  Hilger. 
Communications  from  the  pharmaceutical  Institute  and  Laboratory  for 
applied  chemistry  of  the  University  of  Erlangen. 
These  reprints  from  the  Archiv  der  Pharmacie  comprise  essays  on  the 
chemical  composition  of  ancient  Egyptian  eye-paints,  by  H.  Fischer  ;  on  the 
constituents  of  Menyanthes  trifoliata  and  Erythraea  Centaurium,  by  K.  Lend- 
rich  ;  on  absinthiin,  by  Oscar  Senger,  and  on  the  fruit  of  Capsicum  annuum, 
by  Theo.  Pabst. 
A  Manual  of  Chemistry,  inorganic  and  organic ;  with  an  introduction  to 
the  study  of  chemistry.  By  Arthur  P.  Luff,  M.D.,  B.Sc.  (Lond.),  etc. 
Illustrated  with  36  engravings.  Philadelphia:  Lea  Brothers  &  Co.,  1S92. 
i2mo.    Pp.  xvi  and  525.    Price,  cloth,  $2. 
The  book  is  intended  for  students  of  medicine  and  the  author  being  con- 
nected with  medical  schools  in  London  as  demonstrator  of  chemistry,  lecturer 
<on  medical  jurisprudence  and  toxicological   chemist^,    and    examiner  in 
