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EDITORIAL. 
In  1813  he  entered  the  pharmacy  of  M.  Pouzin,  of  Montpellier.  After 
three  years  service  he  returned  to  Paris  and  completed  his  tuition  under 
M.  Montillard,  Rue  St.  Honore.  At  Montpellier,  as  at  Paris,  he  had  prof- 
ited by  his  moments  of  leisure  to  earnestly  pursue  his  theoretical  studies. 
After  his  graduation  in  the  sciences,  he  met  with  two  instances  of  brilliant 
success.  He  was  admitted  as  an  interne  of  the  hospitals,  in  his  first  year, 
and  gained  all  the  prizes  in  the  natural  and  physical  sciences,  offered  by 
the  Concours  of  the  Ecole  de  Pharmacie.  He  early  became  a  contributor 
to  the  Journal  de  Pharmacie.  In  1826  he  commenced  a  special  course  on 
Pharmacie,  which  he  continued  to  improve,  and  in  1832,  on  the  death  of 
M.  Henry  by  cholera,  his  rare  qualities  caused  him  to  be  chosen  as  his 
successor.  He  made  his  new  position  useful  to  science  by  the  increased 
perfection  of  his  teaching  and  in  the  publication  of  the  first  edition  of  his 
Traite  de  Pharmacie,  arranged  in  the  order  of  the  Natural  System.  In 
1854  he  was  appointed  to  the  Professorship  of  Physics  at  the  Ecole  de 
Pharmacie,  which  he  occupied  more  than  twenty  years,  and  was  noted  for 
the  excellence  of  his  illustrations  and  apparatus.  But  it  was  in  the  Society 
of  Pharmacie  that  M.  Soubeiran  exhibited  those  rare  qualities  which  dis- 
tinguished him  as  a  Professor.  Elected  General  Secretary  of  this  Society 
on  the  demise  of  M.  Robiquet,  he  identified  himself  so  clearly  with  its  inte- 
rests that  he  became  the  soul  of  its  labors,  and  directed  all  the  discussions 
with  indefatigable  zeal  and  with  an  authority  due  to  his  great  learning. 
His  language  was  always  brief  and  lucid,  going  directly  to  the  point  of  the 
subject,  and  explaining  in  precise  and  appropriate  terms  the  most  difficult 
and  delicate  questions.  On  his  election  to  the  new  Professorship  of  Phar- 
macology in  the  faculty  of  medicine,  he  resigned  his  functions  as  General 
Secretary,  feeling  that  age  was  approaching  and  energy  failing,  as  though 
he  had  a  foreknowledge  of  the  terrible  malady  that  caused  his  death.  He 
continued  to  manifest  an  interest  in  the  Society  up  to  the  time  when  hip 
last  illness  removed  him  from  his  labors. 
Soubeiran  has  done  much  for  Pharmacy  in  his  excellent  TraiU,  which 
passed  through  four  editions,  and  which  is  certainly  the  most  reliable  and 
jfhilosophical  treatise  among  the  numerous  French  works  on  his  favorite 
Bubject. 
