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He commenced with the smallest capital, not exceeding £100, but he brought to his 
task an unlimited store of patience, industry, and cheerfulness. His affairs prospered 
beyond his hopes, and having acquired the whole of the house of which he had at 
first only occupied a small part, he married in 1823 one who was in every way worthy of 
his affection. He made no pretensions to science, yet he cordially and actively sympa¬ 
thized with the advanced education in his own calling, of which he could never hope to 
share the fruits. He had the most unbounded veneration for those who were the active 
promoters of the establishment of the Pharmaceutical Society. He was eager to co¬ 
operate in every movement for the advancement of pharmacy, and even so late as Sep¬ 
tember last, bore a part in inaugurating a new local pharmaceutical association, urging 
the members to establish themselves upon the solid basis of work and mutual improvement . 
Why is this brief notice offered F Had Mr. Giles been described as a man of high in¬ 
tellectual or scientific culture, the account would have been mere panegyric and distaste¬ 
ful. First, he was a living and striking illustration of what untiring industry can effect. 
All of us may profit by the example. Secondly, he had one most enviable virtue ,— 
neglected, but too often, habitual equal-minded cheerfulness. I have had special pleasure 
in having been asked to arrange these sentences, few of which are mine. Over many 
years of my father’s life there hung the shadow of a cloud, not dark, but visible. He 
anticipated troubles which never came, and conjured up anxieties which need have had 
no existence. 
The mens aqua is a great gift, for the possession of which we should render thanks 
to the Giver ; if it has been denied, we shoirld diligently cultivate its acquirement. 
For many years he had withdrawn from active share in business, but while in it, no 
man ever pursued it more laboriously or allowed himself less relaxation. A brief holi¬ 
day in the West of England, a short visit to the Channel Islands, and a trip to France, 
were his sole recreations during the forty years of his personal connection with Clifton 
life and work. Bronchitis, his old assailant, laid him low. He has entered into rest. 
This is the simple record of a blameless man, of venerable aspect, with winning man¬ 
ners, and w r hom children loved. J• I* 
On December 21, at his residence, York Place, Brighton, Grover Kemp, aged seventy- 
seven, one of the oldest members of the Society. 
December 16, at his residence, 2, Parade, Northampton, Mr. Edwin Barry, in the 
forty-fourth year of his age, Pharmaceutical Chemist, deeply lamented by his family and 
friends. 
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Nouveau Dictionnaire de Botanique, comprenant la description des families natu- 
relles, les proprietes medicules et les usages economiques des plantes, la morphologic 
et la biologie des vegetaux. Par E. Germain de Saint-Pierre, Vice-President de la 
Societe' Botanique de France (1850 et I860), avec 1600 figures intercalees dans le 
texte. Paris: Bailliere, 1870. 8vo. Pp. 1388. 
The lengthy title of this volume sufficiently explains the subjects on which the author 
treats, while the fact that the work extends to nearly 1400 pages, may well indicate its 
comprehensive character. But with regard to the woodcuts, we must protest against 
the fiction by which they are set forth as amounting in number fo 1600. Not only are 
a great many of them borrowed from other works, as from Guibourt’s llistoire des 
Brogues (published more than twenty years ago) and from the pages of this journal, 
but the same engraving is often made use of twice, and in some instances (as those of 
Cuscuta and Iielleborus niger) three times. This desire for profuse illustration assists, 
no doubt, in producing a work ad captandum vulgus, but it sometimes leads to strange 
errors, one of which occurs under the head Encens ou Oliban. This substance, the 
author states, includes resins or gum-resins derived from various trees, but especially 
from those of the orders Terebinthacece and Burseracecc; adding, that the Incense of 
Bengal is furnished by Bosivellia serrata, the Incense of Arabia by a Balsamodendron , 
that of Cayenne by Idea guianensis and 1. heptophylla , that of Russia by Pinus Laricio, 
Common Incense by divers Abietinece and Cupressinece, and finally the Encens-des-Juifs 
or benzoin by Styrax Benzoin , which is illustrated (?) by the woodcut (reduced) of— 
Liquidambar orientals which appeared in the Pharmaceutical Journal of March, 1857! 
