OBITUARY. 
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landaises,  et  dans  les  Indes  Brittaniques,  par  J.  L.  Soubeiran  et  Aug. 
Delondre.    Paris,  1868,  pp.  165. 
The  above  works  have  been  received  from  the  authors,  and  possess 
many  points  of  interest,  especially  the  latter,  which  is  a  pretty  full  re- 
sume of  the  whole  subject  of  the  transplanting  of  the  cinchona.  Received 
too  late  for  notice  in  this  number,  we  hope  te  refer  to  them  again.  The 
authors  are  among  the  most  promising  of  the  younger  pharmaciens  of 
Paris,  and  are  industrious.  A  recent  letter  from  M.  Delondre,  querying 
for  information  relative  to  opium  culture  in  the  United  States,  informs  us 
that  M.  Soubeiran  and  himself  have  engaged  in  a  very  elaborate  study  of 
opium,  especially  in  relation  to  its  chemical  history  from  the  period  when^ 
in  a  succulent  state,  it  circulates  in  the  proper  vessels  of  the  plant,  to  its 
entry  into  commerce,  involving  nice  questions  in  vegetable  physiology, 
and  the  part  taken  by  atmospheric  oxygen  in  the  modification  of  poppy 
juice. 
OBITUARY, 
Dr.  Robley  Dunglison  died  in  Philadelphia  on  the  1st  of  April 
last,  at  the  age  of  71  years,  having  been  born  at  Keswick,  in  Cum- 
berland, England,  in  1798.  He  graduated  in  medicine  at  l.ondon  in 
1819,  and  came  to  the  United  States  in  1824,  it  is  said  by  invitation  of 
Ex-President  Jefferson,  to  take  part  in  the  establishment  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia,  at  Charlottesville.  In  1833,  he  accepted  a  Chair  in 
the  University  of  Maryland,  and  in  1836  again  transferred  his  services 
to  the  Jefferson  Medical  College,  in  Philadelphia,  then  just  reorganized, 
and  occupied  the  Chair  of  Institutes  of  Medicine  for  thirty-two  years, 
until  a  few  months  before  his  death,  contributing  largely  to  the  extra- 
ordinary success  of  that  College,  of  the  Faculty  of  which  he  was  Dean. 
Dr.  Dunglison's  powers  as  a  lecturer  were  remarkable,  illustrated  by  a 
ready  memory  and  extensive  erudition.  His  reputation  as  a  medical 
writer  has  long  been  very  prominent,  and  his  writings,  judged  by  their 
continued  publication,  are  among  the  most  successful  from  the  American 
medical  press.  Those  most  familiar  to  us  are  his  "  Medical  Lexicon," 
and  his  "  New  Remedies,"  the  latter  intended  to  embrace  therapeutic 
novelties  as  they  became  known  in  the  journals,  the  former  a  vast  gath- 
ering together  of  the  facts  and  definitions  of  the  medical  sciences  in 
alphabetical  order.  Perhaps  few  persons  have  been  better  qualified  for 
such  a  work,  as  he  united  extensive  reading  and  a  good  memory  with 
indomitable  perseverance.  Dr.  Dunglison  will  take  his  stand  as  an  au- 
thor more  as  a  compiler  than  as  a  discoverer,  and  did  far  more  to  notice 
and  bring  forward  the  observations  of  others,  than  to  originate  new  facts 
based  on  an  experimental  study  of  his  profession,  having  never  sought 
an  active  practice,  the  true  field  in  which  medical  facts  and  theories 
should  be  tested. 
