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OBITUARY. 
OBITUARY. 
Dr.  Yon  Martius. — Died,  on  the  13th  of  December,  1868,  in  the  75th 
year  of  his  age,  Dr.  Carl  Friedrich  Philipp  Yon  Martius,  ex-Professor  of 
Botany  in  the  University,  and  Secretary  of  the  Mathematico-physical 
Class  of  the  Academy  of  Sciences  at  Munich,  Foreign  Member  of  the 
Royal  and  Linnean  Societies  of  London,  and  of  the  Pharmaceutical  So- 
ciety of  Great  Britain. 
Few  names  among  the  philosophers  of  Germany  occupy  a  higher  place 
than  that  of  this  eminent  savant,  whose  brilliant  and  versatile  genius  and 
unceasing  activity  enriched  all  branches  of  literature  and  science.  Among 
botanists  Dr.  Yon  Martius  will  ever  be  remembered  as  the  author  of  a 
grand  work  on  palms,  in  three  splendid  folio  volumes,  which  it  took  27 
years  to  complete  ;  and  also4'or  his  Flora  of  Brazil,  a  work  of  even  greater 
magnitude,  commenced  in  1840,  and  still  carried  on  with  the  cooperation 
of  other  botanists.  He  also  wrote  two  small  publications  on  Brazilian 
Materia  Medica,  and  numerous  papers  on  ethnographical  and  philologi- 
cal subjects.  In  private  life  Dr.  Yon  Martius  was  remarkable  for  his 
amiability  and  great  conversational  powers. — Pharm.  Jour.,  Feb.,  1869. 
Edwin  R.  Smith  died  on  the  10th  of  November,  1868,  at  his  home  in 
Monmouth  county,  Illinois,  at  the  age  of  29  years,  from  hemorrhage  of 
the  lungs.  Mr.  Smith  graduated  in  the  scientific  department  of  Mon- 
mouth College,  Class  1860,  and  in  1862  he  became  a  Graduate  of  Phar- 
macy of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  in  order  that  he  might 
secure  the  requisite  qualifications  for  his  future  profession,  in  which  it  was 
his  highest  ambition  to  excel.  Since  his  graduation  at  Philadelphia  he 
had  been  associated  with  his  father  in  business,  where,  from  his  thorough 
knowledge  of  his  profession,  devotion  to  business,  and  unbending  integrity, 
few  gave  promise  of  a  more  useful  life,  or  the  enjoyment  of  a  larger  meas- 
ure of  respect  and  confidence  in  the  community  among  which  he  dwelt. 
He  was  also  an  active  member  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion, of  which  he  became  a  member  in  1862.  A.  E.  E. 
John  E.  Corbidge  died  on  the  29th  of  January,  1869,  at  his  home  in 
Chicago,  111.,  at  the  age  of  25^  years.  He  had  but  of  late  returned  to 
this  city,  having  been  absent  for  two  years  at  Philadelphia,  attending  the 
lectures  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  of  which  he  became  a 
graduate  in  March,  1868.  Shortly  after  his  return  he  contracted  disease 
of  the  lungs,  which  terminated  his  career  of  usefulness.         A.  E.  E. 
Dr.  William  B.  Herapath,  of  Bristol,  Eng.,  eminent  as  a  toxicological 
chemist,  (and  son  of  the  late  Dr.  W.  Herapath,  whose  decease  was  re- 
corded last  May,)  died  in  October  last  in  his  48th  year.  Dr.  Herapath 
possessed  an  active  mind,  and  pursued  chemistry  with  so  much  success 
that  his  discoveries  won  for  him  membership  in  the  Royal  Society  and 
other  learned  bodies.  The  discovery  and  investigation  of  the  sulphate  of 
iodoquinia  and  the  corresponding  salts  of  the  other  cinchona  alkalies,  is 
that  by  which  he  is  best  known,  though  his  observations  have  been  quite 
numerous.  He  leaves  a  widow  and  six  children,  and  is  deeply  regretted 
by  a  large  circle  of  professional  friends, 
