AmiSstPiS9a7rm  }         College  Meeting.— Obituary.  431 
Report  of  the  Fifteenth  Annual  Proceedings  of  the  Louisiana  State 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  held  at  New  Orleans,  May  11  to  13,  1897. 
Two  original  communications  were  received  and  read  at  this  meeting,  viz. : 
"Does  a  College  of  Pharmacy  Education  Possess  any  Advantages  over  that 
Gained  by  Long  Practical  Experience?"  by  Dr.  T.  A.  Quayle;  and  "  How  to 
Increase  our  Membership,"  by  Leon  Barthet.  A  number  of  interesting  reports 
were  also  presented.  The  Association  is  doing  a  good  work  by  endeavoring  to 
introduce  the  National  Formulary,  and  thereby  have  physicians  prescribe  the 
preparations  contained  in  it. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  COLLEGE  MEETING. 
The  quarterly  meeting  of  the  College  was  held  June  28,  1897,  with  President 
Bullock  in  the  chair.  The  minutes  of  the  Boaru  of  Trustees  for  April,  May 
and  June  were  read  and  adopted. 
A  communication  from  Chairman  Beale,  of  the  Section  on  Pharmaceutical 
Education  and  Legislation,  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  was 
presented .  It  consisted  of  a  list  of  interrogatories  bearing  upon  the  construction 
of  a  uniform  pharmacy  law  for  all  the  States.  This  document  was  deemed  al- 
together too  voluminous  and  comprehensive  to  be  properly  considered  in  the 
limited  time  at  the  disposal  of  the  College,  and  action  upon  it  was  postponed. 
Mr.  E.  M.  Boring  offered  a  resolution,  which  appeared  to  involve  a  modifica- 
tion of  the  charter,  and  the  spirit  of  which  resolved  itself  into  two  queries, 
which  the  Secretary  was  directed  to  submit  to  the  College  Counsellors  for  an 
opinion.    These  queries  were  as  follows  : 
"Can  the  College  restrict  the  eligibility  of  members  to  serve  in  the  Board 
of  Trustees  to  such  only  as  do  not  receive  emoluments  for  service  rendered  the 
College?" 
"  Should  the  Board  of  Trustees  deem  it  desirable  to  elect  one  or  more  of  the 
faculty  associate  members  of  the  Board  without  voice  unless  requested,  and 
also  without  vote,  can  it  do  so  ?" 
The  chairman  appointed  the  following  delegates  to  the  meeting  of  the  Ameri- 
can Pharmaceutical  Association:  Samuel  P.  Sadtler,  F.  W.  E.  Stedem,  Josiah  C. 
Peacock. 
Wileiam  B.  Thompson,  Secretary. 
OBITUARY. 
Prof.  Dr.  Karl  Remigius  Fresenius. — On  the  nth  of  June  Professor  Frese- 
nius,  the  noted  chemist,  died  at  Wiesbaden,  Germany,  in  the  seventy-ninth 
year  of  his  age,  of  heart  disease. 
He  was  born  at  Frankfort-on-the-Maiu,  December  28,  1818,  and  obtained  his 
education  for  the  most  part  in  the  schools  of  that  city.  In  1836  he  was  appren- 
ticed as  an  apothecary,  and  while  pursuing  this  vocation  attended  lectures  on 
chemistry  and  physics.  Later  he  became  a  student  at  the  University  of  Bonn , 
and,  in  1841,  went  to  Giessen  as  assistant  in  Liebig's  laboratory.  In  1843  fle  ac- 
cepted a  position  as  private  instructor  in  chemistry  at  the  University  of  Gies- 
sen, where,  however,  he  remained  only  two  years,  when  he  was  called  to 
the  Agricultural  Institute  of  Wiesbaden  as  professor  of  the  natural  sciences. 
