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Reviews,  etc. —  Obituary. 
f  Am  Jour.  Pharm. 
i      Sept.,  1881. 
Trichinae  {Pork  Worms  or  Flesh  Woi^ms).  How  to  Detect  them  and  how 
to  Avoid  them.  By  John  Phin.  Rochester:  Bausch  &  Lomb  Optical 
Company,  1881. 
A  small  pamphlet  containing  a  popular  account  of  trichinse,  their  habits^ 
modes  of  pro23agation  and  means  of  dissemination,  etc. 
Proceedings  of  the  Third  Annual  Meeting  of  the  New  York  State  Pharma- 
ceutical Association^  held  in  Buffalo  May  18tli  and  19th,  1881.  Elmira,. 
N.  Y.    8vo,  pp.  192. 
The  first  112  pages  contain  the  minutes,  which  are  followed  by  the  report 
of  the  Committee  on  Pharmacy,  and  by  the  following  papers  read  at  the 
meeting :  emulsions  of  mucilage  of  Irish  moss  and  fixed  oils,  by  A.  B. 
Huested ;  vaselin  in  the  preparation  of  ointments,  by  G.  H.  Arnold  ;  con- 
centrated infusions  and  decoctions,  by  E.  G.  Bissell ;  therapeutic  value  of 
pills,  by  C.  W.  Holmes,  and  three  papers  by  Prof.  Bedford,  on  benzoic  acid 
of  commerce,  benzoate  of  sodium  and  pharmaceutical  literature. 
The  next  meeting  will  be  held  in  Albany,  June  20th,  1882. 
Die  Naturgeschichte  des  Cajus  Pliyiius  Secundus.    Leipzig :  Gressner  & 
Schramm.    Price,  per  part,  2  marks. 
This  is  Part  6  of  the  Natural  History  of  Cajus  Plinius,  translated  into 
German  by  Prof.  Dr.  G.  C.  Wittstein,  and  by  him  supplied  with  explana- 
tory notes. 
OBITUARY. 
Mathias  Jacob  Schi^eiden  died  at  Frankfort-on-the-Main  June  23d,. 
in  his  78th  year.  He  was  born  at  Hamburg  April  5th,  1804,  studied  and 
afterwards  practised  law  for  several  years.  Subsequently  he  studied  natu- 
ral history  and  medicine,  and  in  1839  became  Professor  of  Botany  at  Jena, 
where  he  lectured  also  on  pharmaceutical  botany  and  pharmacognosy  iiL 
the  Pharmaceutical  Institute,  of  which  Wackenroder  was  director  at  the 
time.  He  was  one  of  the  first  who  recognized  the  necessity  of  the  use  of 
the  microscope  in  the  study  of  the  vegetable  drugs  as  well  as  of  the  devel- 
opment of  plants.  After  severing  his  connection  with  Jena,  in  1862,  he 
went  to  Dresden  and  for  a  short  time  to  Dorpat,  occupying  in  the  latter 
place  the  chair  of  phytochemistry  and  anthropology.  Since  1864  he  has 
lived  at  Dresden  or  Frankfort,  devoting  himself  to  philosophical  studies 
and  publications.  His  most  important  works  for  the  iiharmacist  are  the 
outlines  of  scientific  botany,  medico-pharmaceutical  botany  and  botanical 
pharmacognosy.  His  popular  works  on  the  plant  and  its  life,  the  rose,  tree 
and  forest  and  others  have  been  translated  into  several  languages.  Schleiden 
was  an  exact  critical  and  philosophical  investigator,  his  observations 
always  commanding  the  careful  consideration  of  scientists  throughout  the 
world. 
