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lisht under the title, ‘‘Phcnographic Instructor; being an introduction 
to the Corresponding Style of Phonography, with engraved illustrations.’’ 
This was republisht with a Key in 1850, and again in 1856. The book was 
based on the inductive method, and an especial merit apart from the clear 
exposition of principles was in its set of progressive exercises so arranged 
that nothing once learned had to be unlearned, thus avoiding the discour- 
aging confusion incident to the study as commonly taught. The book was 
successful, and proved the capacity of its author in elementary instruction, 
That Prof. Booth was highly esteemed in social and religious as well 
as scientific circles is attested by the diversity and duration of his mem- 
berships, no less than by his honorary degrees. In 1867 the Univer- 
sity of Lewisburg conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws ; 
and, in 1884, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute added the Ph.D. to his 
name. In addition to his memberships already mentioned, he was elected 
to the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, in 1842; to the Academy of 
Natural Sciences, in 1852; to the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of 
Mechanic Arts, in 1858 ; to the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agri- 
culture, about 1859; to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, in 1884. 
He was President of the American Chemical Society of New York, in 
1883 and in 1884, and declined reélection for a third term—that honor 
never having been offered to any of his predecessors. He was Assistant 
Secretary of the Diocese of Pennsylvania from 1865 to 1871. He was 
‘actively interested in various philanthropies. He was one of the Building 
Committee of Christ Church Hospital. With him and Mr. Joseph E. 
Hover originated the Seamen’s Floating Church of the Redeemer, now 
on terra firma at Front and Queen streets. He was also an active mover 
in the Children’s Hospital connected with the Free Church of the Good 
Shepherd, at Radnor, Pa, 
In addition to the publications already mentioned, Prof. Booth pub- 
lisht papers ‘‘On Beet Root Sugar’’ (1842); ‘‘Chrome Iron Analysis’ 
(1842) ; ‘‘Constitution of Glycerin and Oily Acids” (1848) ; ‘‘Recent 
Improvements in the Chemical Arts’’ (1852), anda ‘‘ Report on the Water 
Supply of Philadelphia’’ (1862). He is better known, however, as the 
editor and annotator of a translation from the French of Regnault’s 
‘Elements of Chemistry’ (2 vols., Phila., 1853). 
Prof. Booth was married November 17, 1858, to Margaret M. Cardeza. 
His widow and three daughters survive him, Personally, he was a gen- 
tleman of refined manners, pleasing address and cheerful disposition, 
The latter quality was, however, often obscured by his nervous intensity ; 
and a painful anxiety seemed of late years to be ineradicably scored into 
his very life. His great responsibilities in exact manipulation of millions 
and millions of dollars in all forms of bullion, for whose safe custody he 
was also legally accountable, told heavily upon his physical constitution, 
and left him, long ere the year of his death, a wreck of his former self. 
Indeed, his noticeable failure dates from the great ‘‘wastages’’ of 1872, 
together with subsequent difficulties in the recoinage of seventeen. millions 
of our own gold coin in 1873. 
