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Alfred  S.  Lane  died  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  March  124.  He  was  born  in 
Norwich,  England,  January  17,  1822,  and  came  to  this  country  with  his 
parents  at  the  age  of  8  years.  After  clerking  in  Michigan  and  New 
York,  he  formed  the  partnership  of  Lane  &  Paine  at  Rochester,  but 
retired  from  active  business  some  years  ago.  He  was  well  known  to  and 
highly  esteemed  by  the  members  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation, of  the  annual  meetings  of  which  he  was  a  frequent  attendant. 
John  Mackay  died  at  Edinburgh,  his  native  city,  April  19,  in  the 
sixty-third  year  of  his  age.  He  has  been  Honorary  Secretary  of  the  North 
British  branch  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain  since  1841^ 
declining  re^jeatedly  a  nomination  for  the  chair,  and  since  1861  served  on 
the  Council.  He  was  tlie  author  of  numerous  papers  on  pharmaceutical 
and  kindred  subjects,  many  of  them  being  contributed  to  the  pharmaceu- 
tical meetings.  He  was  a  corresponding  member  of  the  Philadelphia  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy. 
.T.  Personne,  professor  of  analytical  chemistry  at  the  Paris  School  of 
Pharmacy,  died  there  several  months  ago,  aged  64  years.  Among  his 
numerous  researches  may  be  mentioned  those  on  lupulin,  compounds  of 
phosijhorus,  iodine,  etc.,  titration  of  mercury,  chloral,  chloroform,  etc. 
LuDW  iu  Rabenhorst,  Ph.D.,  died  at  Meissen,  Germany,  in  his  seventy- 
fifth  year.  The  deceased  was  a  pharmacist,  but  for  many  years  devoted 
himself  to  botany  and  was  widely  known  as  investigator  of  the  ciypto- 
gams. 
John  Stenhouse,  F.R.S.,  died  December  31,  1880.  He  was  born  at 
Glasgow  in  1809  and  studied  chemistry  under  Graham  and  Liebig.  In  his 
numerous  researches,  he  investigated  a  large  number  of  products  and 
principles  of  medicinal  and  pharmaceutical  importance,  such  as  aloin, 
many  volatile  oils,  salts  of  quinidia,  strychnia  and  other  alkaloids,  various 
tannins,  etc.  In  recognition  of  his  valuable  researches  he  had  been 
elected  honorary  member  of  several  pharmaceutical  societies. 
Julius  Vogel,  M.D.,  Professor  of  Medicine  and  Director  of  the  Patho- 
logical Institute  at  Halle,  Germany,  died  recently  in  his  sixty-seventh 
year.  The  deceased  was  one  of  the  authors  of  a  very  elaborate  work  on 
the  analysis  of  urine,  his  colaborer  having  been  Prof.  C.  Neubauer. 
Professor  Alphonso  Wood,  the  w^ell-known  botanist  and  author  of 
several  valuable  works  on  North  American  botany,  died  at  New  York  last 
March  in  the  seventy-first  year  of  his  age.  For  two  years  he  held  the 
chair  of  botany  in  the  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy. 
