334 THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



In 1890 Professor Bastin accepted the chair of materia 

 medica and botany in the Northwestern University School of 

 Pharmacy, where he also organized a new botanical and 

 microscopical laboratory. But this had onl}^ just been 

 accomplished when he was called to the Philadelphia Col- 

 lege of Pharmacy to occupy the position vacated by the 

 death of Professor John M. Maisch. After coming to 

 Philadelphia, in 1894, Professor Bastin's department was 

 extended by the organization of a large and thoroughly 

 equipped laboratory for the study of micro-botany and 

 pharmacognosy. The professor was identified with the 

 purchase of the herbarium of the late Isaac C. Martindale, 

 a collection especially rich in the local plants of Phila- 

 delphia and vicinage. Professor Bastin allied himself with 

 the botanical interests of Philadelphia, and, it was to have 

 been hoped that he would have been spared to continue 

 with the same energy his botanical labors, but after a short 

 illness death claimed him on April 6, 1897.* 



Bibliography. 



1. ''Elements of Botany." 1887. 



2. "Vegetable Histology." 1887. 



3. "College Botany." 1889. 



4. " Questions on College Botany. " 1892. 



5. " Laboratory Exercises in Botany. " 1895. 



6. "A Fact Bearing upon the Evolution of the Genus Cypripedium." 

 — Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 1883, 310. 



7. " Plant Uairs.''— Western Druggist, 1884. 



8. "Sanguinaria Canadensis." — Pharmacist, 1885. 



9. " Starches of Eoot and Khizome Drugs."— T/<e Apothecary, 1893. 



10. " Economic Botany." — American Journal of Pharmacy, 1894, 282. 



11. " Starches in Different Commercial Varieties of Cacao." — American 

 Journal of Pharmacy, 1894, 369. 



* See Obituary Notice, with cut, Pliiladelphia Ledger, April 7, 1897. 



