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formulas and equations. The historical point of view is not neglected and the development of the several industries is briefly sketched.

Technology is here defined as the science of those industries that refine, ennoble the crude materials supplied by nature. If properly studied it will certainly have a decided cultural effect upon the student. It will produce a culture that accepts not only the refining influence of the classics, but appreciates the ennobling effect of all labor well performed. E. K.

MATERIA MEDICA OF VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL ORIGIN. With notes on the properties, uses, and constituents of crude drugs. By John Humphrey, with an introduction by E. M. Holmes. One volume, pp. XIII, 495. W. T. Keener & Co., Chicago, 1905. $1.75.

This neat pocket volume is evidently an American reprint and is primarily designed for the British pharmacist. However, the drugs. included are not only those of the B. P. (1898) and Appendix I, but also those of "The Indian and colonial addendum (1900) and a large number of non-official drugs, with the characters and constituents of which persons registered in Great Britain as chemists and druggists are required to be familiar." Such being the case, the readers of this journal map be more interested in an English point of view as expressed by the Curator of the Bloomsbury Square Museum in the introduction than in a review by an American writer.

"So many books on materia medica have been published during recent years, that the necessity for another is not obvious at first sight. A little reflection, however, will convince the ordinary pharmacist in search of information that there does not exist any work on materia medica which furnishes, in a handy form, all the information he needs on drugs, as apart from chemicals, in the course of his business. Flückiger and Hanbury's 'Pharmacographia,' which so far as it goes is one of the most trustworthy works of the kind, mentions no drugs of animal origin, and the information it contains about the chemistry of drugs is now hopelessly out of date. The National Dispensatory' and the 'Dispensatory of the United States of America' are much too bulky for convenient use, and, by reason of their encyclopaedic nature, can never be quite up to date; Greenish's 'Materia Medica' does not deal sufficiently fully with animal products or with the chemistry of drugs, and other books are lacking in various respects.

Some works are too brief or difficult to peruse, or are merely compilations and too often wanting in accuracy. White and Humphrey's 'Pharmacopedia' meets the busy man's requirements better than most works, and is admirable as a series of annotations on pharmacopoeial drugs, by reason of its excellent illustrations, readable style, care of reference, and the mass of information concerning crude drugs and chemicals which it contains. But 'Pharmacopedia' is almost too large for convenient handling or for an ordinary desk-shelf, while it by no means meets all the requirements of the chemist and druggist in business, since many of the drugs he handles regularly are scarcely, if at all, touched upon in the work.

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The author of the present book, Mr. John Humphrey, is a practical pharmacist, whose former extended business experience has taught him thekind of knowledge required by the general run of pharmacists and students, and he has evidently conceived the idea that in these days of co-operation, keen competition, and condensation of knowledge it is necessary to present the practical pharmacist with knowledge in an elegant and palatable form in order to save time and facilitate business. Types of the class of book Mr. Humphrey has produced will be found in the Treasury of Botany,' in Martindale and Westcott's 'Extra Pharmacopoeia,' and in Squire's 'Pocket Companion to the British Pharmacopoeia.' The author has evidently done his best to combine the concise, clear, and interesting nature of the first-named book, and the convenience of an alphabetical arrangement, with the comprehensive and condensed character of the other two works I have selected as types. These advantages will probably have due weight, both with students, to whom portability in a book is a necessity, and with business men, to whom facility of reference and access to the most recent and accurate information are equally essential."

The volume is provided with a detailed index and with a number of blank pages for memoranda, thus making it more serviceable as a text-book for students.

E. K.

A CRITICAL REVISION OF THE GENUS ENCALYHTUS, by J. H. Maiden, Government Botanist of New South Wales, Part VI (four plates).

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