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of  pharmacology,  Johns  Hopkins  University,  with  the  assistance  of 
fourteen  associate  editors,  among  whom  are  the  most  prominent 
pharmacologists  of  this  country.  At  least  six  numbers  of  the 
Journal  will  be  issued  yearly,  and  will  constitute  a  volume  of  about 
650  pages.  The  Williams  &  Wilkins  Publishing  Company,  2427- 
2429  York  Road,  Baltimore,  are  the  publishers,  and  the  subscription 
price  postpaid  is  $5.00  per  annum. 
Philadelphia  Branch  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association. — The  sixth  and  last  of  the  season's  series  of  free 
lectures  and  demonstrations  in  the  post-graduate  course  of  instruc- 
tion for  local  pharmacists  was  given  at  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy,  145  North  Tenth  Street,  on  Tuesday  evening,  April  20, 
1909,  at  8  o'clock. 
Professor  H.  H.  Rusby,  of  Columbia  University,  spoke  on  "  The 
Necessity  of  Botanical  Identification  as  a  Basis  for  Other  Pharma- 
cological Work,"  and  Professor  Henry  Kraemer  discussed  the  sub- 
ject of  "  Botany  as  a  Hobby  and  Useful  Science  for  Pharmacists," 
illustrating  his  remarks  with  specimens  of  growing  medicinal  plants 
and  lantern  slides. 
Dr.  George  T.  Moore,  formerly  connected  with  the  Bureau  of 
Plant  Industry,  U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture,  and  for  several 
years  past  identified  with  the  botanical  work  of  the  Marine  Bio- 
logical Laboratory,  at  Woods  Hole,  Mass.,  is  now  a  member  of  the 
teaching  corps  of  the  Shaw  School  of  Botany  Washington  Univer- 
sity, St.  Louis,  Mo.  The  School  of  Botany  enjoys  full  use  of  the 
facilities  of  the  famous  Shaw  Botanical  Garden,  which  include,  in 
addition  to  experimental  grounds,  plant  houses  and  laboratories,  a 
collection  of  over  11,000  distinct  species  or  varieties  of  living  plants, 
an  herbarium  of  over  600,000  specimens  and  a  botanical  library  of 
nearly  60,000  books  and  pamphlets.  Dr.  William  Trelease  is  at  the 
head  of  the  Shaw  School  of  Botany,  which  offers  two  research 
fellowships,  of  $500  each,  for  the  next  academic  year. 
Poisons  in  Mushrooms. — Ford  gives  {Science,  July  23,  1909) 
a  resume  of  the  later  chemical  work  on  the  poisonous  constituents  of 
mushrooms,  beginning  with  that  of  Kobert,  together  with  descrip- 
tions of  their  effects  upon  man  and  other  animals.  In  all  about 
20  forms  have  been  examined.  Kobert  isolated  an  hemolysin,  or 
principle  which  dissolves  the  red  blood-corpuscles,  from  Amanita 
phalloides,  which  he  took  to  be  a  toxalbumin  and  to  which  he  gave 
the  name  phallin;  and  later  reported  the  existence  of  an  alcohol- 
