Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1889. 
Obituary. 
319 
OBITUARY. 
Warren  de  la  Rue,  D.  C.  L.,  F.  E.  S.,  died  in  London  April  19,  at  the  age  of 
74  years.  He  was  a  native  of  Guernsey,  was  educated  in  Paris,  and  succeeded 
his  father  as  the  head  of  the  firm  of  Thomas  de  la  Eue  &  Co.,  from  which  he 
retired  in  1880.  To  scientific  literature  he  contributed  a  number  of  papers  on 
electricity  and  galvanism,  a  memoir  on  the  coloring  matter  and  other  con- 
stituents of  cochineal  (1847),  and  with  his  friend  Hugo  Miiller  researches 
on  hydrocarbons,  resins,  nitroglycerin  etc.,  the  memoir  of  special  interest 
to  pharmacy  being  one  on  some  constituents  of  rhubarb  (1857),  in  which 
the  investigators  proved  the  sediment  formed  in  tincture  of  rhubarb  to 
contain  chrysophanic  acid,  erythroretin,  phseoretin  and  aporetin,  which 
compounds  had  been  prepared  (1844)  directly  from  the  root  by  Schlossber- 
ger  and  Doepping. 
Oskar  Sehlickum  died  in  Winningen  near  Coblenz  April  4th,  aged  51 
years.  He  was  born  in  the  same  town  in  1838,  received  a  good  education, 
in  1856  became  an  apprentice  in  his  father's  pharmacy,  and  after  clerking  in 
several  stores,  passed  the  State's  examination  in  1865,  and  in  the  following 
year  became  the  successor  of  his  father.  He  was  the  author  of  a  number 
of  practical  works,  such  as  commentaries  on  the  German  pharmacopoeias, 
condensed  dictionaries  of  pharmacy,  chemistry  and  botany,  on  the  educa- 
tion of  apprentices  &c.  His  numerous  practical  papers  were  contributed 
to  the  Pharmaeeutische  Zeitung  and  to  the  Archiv  der  Pharmacie,  and 
many  of  them  are  found,  mostly  as  abstracts,  in  previous  volumes  of  this 
journal.  For  about  four  years  the  deceased  was  chairman  of  the  commit- 
tee for  the  preliminary  revision  of  the  German  pharmacopoeia. 
John  Franklin  Wilgus,  Ph.  G.,  class  1876,  was  killed  May  5th,  while 
crossing  the  tracks  of  the  Pennsylvania  Eailroad  at  Bridesburg,  Philadel- 
phia, on  the  way  to  his  place  of  business  at  4627  Frankford  Avenue ;  his 
remains  were  interred  at  Bordentown  N.  J. 
Samuel  S.  Garrigues,  Ph.  G.,  Ph.  D.,  deceased,  at  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan,  after 
a  protracted  sickness,  May  16th,  1889,  in  the  sixty-first  year  of  his  age. 
Among  the  Huguenot  exiles  who  left  their  homes  in  the  province  of  Lan- 
guedoc,  in  France,  by  reason  of  the  revocation  of  the  edict  of  Nantes  by 
Louis  XIV  in  1685,  were  three  brothers,  Matthew,  Francis  and  John  De  la 
Garrigue.  Escaping  from  France  they  landed  on  the  island  of  St.  Christ- 
opher, (one  of  Caribbee  group  belonging  to  Great  Britain),  and  from  thence 
they  afterwards  made  their  way  to  Philadelphia.  Uniting  in  religious  creed 
with  the  Church  of  England  the  brothers  became  members  of  the  congrega- 
tion of  old  Christ's  Church  on  Second  street.  (The  first  church  building 
was  erected  in  1695.  Watson's  Annals  of  Philadelphia).  Samuel,  one  of  the 
children  of  Matthew,  subsequently  withdrew  from  the  church,  and  with  his 
family  united  himself  with  the  Society  of  Friends.  This  was  the  great-great 
grandfather  of  the  subject  of  our  memoir.  The  family  name  in  the  course 
of  time  became  anglicized  to  Garrigues.  Samuel  S.  Garrigues  was  born  at  the 
N.  E.  corner  of  Market  and  Sixth  streets,  Philadelphia,  September  7, 1828. 
His  early  education  was  received  in  the  schools  maintained  by  the  Society 
