St. Louis to Missouri river and back. As the single-trip rate Chicago to Missouri river is $12.50, and from St. Louis $7.50, you will see that their rates are not reduced nearly as much as the trans-continental road rates. Can you not, through some of your profession at Chicago, approach the general passenger agents of the lines leading from Chicago whose names we have given you? We think they will appreciate the importance of the occasion. One of our assist ants has in hand the matter of reduced rates locally, and you will be shortly advised. Respectfully yours,

T. H. GOODMAN."

$65.50 from Missouri

Extracts from letter of February 12, 1894: "The rates thus continued are as follows: river points, being Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Omaha, Pacific Junction, St. Joseph, Atchison, Leavenworth and Kansas City, $77.50; from St. Louis, Cairo, Memphis and New Orleans.

The rates mentioned to you exceed the one-way, thirty-day rates as follows:

That from the Missouri River, by $5.50. That from St. Louis, Cairo, Memphis and New Orleans, by $10, and that from Chicago ($85.50), by $13.

We deem it but proper to here mention that if our Shasta Route between San Francisco and Portland is passed over on either going or returning trip from Missouri river, St. Louis or Chicago, the rate will be $15 greater.

As on this occasion passenger movement is from the East to the West, it is but proper that the question of rates should be taken up with officials of eastern roads. We suggest, therefore, that you correspond first with those who have charge of the passenger traffic of the so-called Trans-Continental Association roads. They are as follows:

For rates from the territory lying beyond the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, you should address, Mr. B. D. Caldwell, Chairman Western Passenger Ass'n, Chicago, Mr. F. C. Donald, Comm'r Pass. Dept. Central Traffic Ass'n, Chicago, Mr. L. P. Farmer, Comm'r Pass. Dept. Trunk Line Ass'n, New York, Mr. M. Slaughter, Asst. Comm'r Southern Pass. Ass'n, Atlanta, Ga."

From the foregoing communications it will appear that, while we have not been wholly successful, if the roads between the Missouri river and Chicago and between Chicago and Atlantic points where local travel far exceeds that over the Rocky Mountains, will give the same reductions as the roads from the Missouri River points to San Francisco, we will practically have a single fare for a round trip.

Cannot the Profession in the East, by united effort, secure these concessions?

The time is growing short, and chairmen of the several sections should send in their reports, etc., for insertion in the programme. R. H. PLUMMER, Chairman.

San Francisco, March 25, 1894.

BOOKS.

A Primer of Psychology and Mental Disease. By C. B. Burr, M. D.,Medical Superintendent of the Eastern Michigan Asylum. 1894. George S. Davis, Publisher, Detroit, Mich.

Doctor Burr presents to the medical reader a very clear, concise and accurate delineation of the science of the mind, its disorders and their treatment. The arrangement of subject matter is such as to convey definite and systematic information with the least expenditure of mental force on the part of the student or practitioner. As a practical guide for the general physician it is safe and sufficient. The brochure is well printed and tastefully bound.

A Text-Book on the Diseases of Women.--By Henry J. Garrigues, A.M., M.D., Professor of Obstetrics in the New York PostGraduate Medical School and Hospital. Containing Three Hundred and Ten Engravings and Colored Plates. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 925 Walnut Street. 1894. Price, cloth, $4; sheep, $5.

American medical students and physicians will find in this work a clear, succinct and satisfactory account of practical and modern gynecology. It is in fact such a book as might be expected from a man with the experience and ability which the author possesses. The text is composed of two divisions, general and special. In the former the development, anatomy and physiology of the female genital organs are considered in discursive detail, together with etiology, examination and treatment in general, and abnormal menstruation, metrorrhagia and leucorrhea. This portion of the volume is of especial value to students and young practitioners, to whom it presents that definite and exact instruction so much needed by all beginners. The major portion of the work, the special division, is devoted to a consideration of the peculiar diseases of the female genital organs, and is a complete and reliable guide to scientific. practice in this department. The matters of diagnosis and treatment are given that paramount attention which they merit, and in treatment the medical and electrical methods are always described

precedent to surgical measures. The illustrations are especially instructive as regards operations and operative technique. The aim of the author to write a practical work has been fully realized, and American medical literature has been markedly enriched by this accession.

A Manual of Therapeutics.-By A. A. Stevens, A.M., M.D., Lecturer on Terminology and Instructor in Physical Diagnosis in the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 925 Walnut Street. 1894. Price, $2.25.

Medical students cannot fail to be charmed with this book, which has been prepared especially for their use. It strikes the golden mean between the categorical quiz compends and the exhaustive tomes whose proper utility is reference, not study. The work before us contains all that is best and latest in therapeutics, told in an easily assimilable style. A specially commendable feature is the attention given to the administration of drugs. A fourth of the book is devoted to applied therapeutics, in which section the treatment of all common diseases is briefly described. Throughout the book one finds numerous prescriptions by leading American physicians. The final chapter on "Incompatibility in Prescriptions,” is decidedly interesting and instructive. A full table of doses and a copious index of remedies and of diseases complete a work replete with practical information.

Anomalies of Refraction and of the Muscles of the Eye.-By Flavel B. Tiffany, M. D., Professor of Ophthalmology and Otology of the University Medical College of Kansas City, Mo. Author's Edition. Kansas City: Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., 1894.

This is a first class book by a first class man. The contents include biographical sketches of the pioneers in ophthalmology with portraits; a clearly written chapter on reflection and on refraction of light; a brief and practical consideration of the anatomy and accommodation of the eye. The main portion of the volume is taken up with strabismus, astigmatism, heterophoria and other reflective and muscular anomalies of the eye; in these sections the author displays the intimate knowledge of the special subject to which he has devoted the best part of his life, as well as his native originality and the capability of imparting knowledge developed by thirteen.

years of college teaching. An especially acceptable feature of the work is the chapter on "How to Examine the Eye," which is plain and practical and accordant with the latest approved methods. Another chapter of particular value is that on spectacles and their adjustment. The book is printed on good, heavy paper; the type is large and legible; there is a complete index conveniently arranged; the text is very profusely illustrated, a number of the cuts being colored. Briefly stated, the work is concise, comprehensive and entirely commendable.

A Practical Treatise on Medical Diagnosis for Students and Physicians. By John H. Musser, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. Illustrated with 162 wood-cuts and two colored plates. Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co. 1894. Price in cloth, $5; leather, $6. This is one of the very best medical works ever published. The author has great talent in the systematization of facts, and it is in this particular respect that the peculiar value of the treatise lies. Of the 900 octavo pages nearly one-fourth are devoted to the consideration of general diagnosis, in which field it may be said truthfully that the author is without a peer. In this part the subject of bacteriological diagnosis is given the space and attention which its growing importance demands. The colored plates of the common bacteria are strikingly correct and instructive. In the matter of special diagnosis the whole organism is covered in a lucid and rational manner, no special set of diseases being hobbyized and none neglected. Many of the illustrations in this part are photographic reproductions. On the whole the work is a masterly conception worthy of the highest commendation and the most extensive

use.

Essentials of Practice of Pharmacy.-Arranged in the Form of

Questions and Answers. Prepared Especially for Pharmaceutical Students. Second Edition, Revised. By Lucius E. Sayre, Ph.G., Professor of Pharmacy and Materia Medica of the School of Pharmacy of the University of Kansas. Philadelphia: W.B.Saunders, 925 Walnut Street. 1894. Price, $1.00. Students of pharmacy will find in this little compend a friend and helper in the mastery of their chosen profession. The U. S. Pharmacopeia is made the nucleus of the text around which the