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Notes  and  News. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharni. 
\      August,  1897. 
Here,  in  1848,  he  established  his  famous  private  laboratory, to  which  was  added, 
in  1862,  a  pharmaceutical  department. 
As  is  well  known,  Professor  Fresenius  devoted  his  attention  chiefly  to  the 
subject  of  Analytical  Chemistry,  and  his  "  Anleitung  zur  qualitative  chemi- 
schen  Analyse"  and  "Anleitung  zur  quantitative  chemischen  Analyse"  have 
gone  through  a  number  of  editions,  and  have  been  translated  into  almost  every 
living  tongue.  In  addition  to  his  other  literary  labors,  he  was  editor  of  the 
Zeitschrift  fiir  analytische  Chemie  since  1862. 
In  recognition  of  his  services  as  a  scientist,  numerous  honorary  titles  and 
orders  of  distinction  were  bestowed  upon  Professor  Fresenius  by  various 
societies  and  scientific  bodies,  both  in  Germany  and  in  other  countries,  and  in 
1893  he  was  elected  an  honorary  member  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy. 
Prof.  Julius  von  Sachs. — On  the  29th  of  May  Professor  von  Sachs,  the 
famous  botanist,  died  at  Wiirzburg,  Germany,  where  he  had  resided  since  1868. 
He  was  born  at  Breslau,  in  1832,  and  his  life  was  enriched  by  labors  which  have 
had  a  distinct  and  decided  influence  on  the  advances  made  in  recent  years  in 
scientific  botany,  particularly  plant  physiology  and  the  principles  of  causality 
as  applied  to  plant  life. 
Professor  Sachs  was  a  voluminous  writer,  and  of  his  works  the  following 
maybe  mentioned:  "Botanical  Experimental  Physiology,"  "Text  Book  of 
Botany,"  "  History  of  Botany"  (from  1600  to  i860),  and  "  Lectures  on  Plant 
Physiology."  He  was  not  only  distinguished  as  an  author,  but  was  an  accom- 
plished lecturer,  and  had  devoted  the  greater  part  of  his  life  to  teaching.  For 
twenty-nine  years  he  had  been  Professor  of  Botany  at  Wiirzburg,  and  for  a  time 
during  the  early  part  of  his  scientific  career  was  assistant  to  Purkinje  at  Prague. 
NOTES  AND  NEWS. 
Professor  J.  B.  Nagelvoort  has  resigned  the  chair  of  Pharmaceutical  Chemis- 
try in  the  School  of  Pharmacy,  Northwestern  University,  and  is  at  present  in 
Amsterdam,  Netherlands.  Some  of  his  contributions  on  pharmacy  in  the 
United  States  have  recently  appeared  in  the  Pharmaceutisch  Weckblad  of 
Rotterdam . 
The  Hanbury  Medal  has  been  awarded  for  this  year  to  Dr.  John  B.  De  Vrij, 
of  The  Hague.  He  was  born  in  Rotterdam  in  1813.  The  President  of  the 
British  Pharmaceutical  Society,  in  announcing  the  award,  said  :  "It  was  interest- 
ing to  note  that  in  this  year  of  the  Diamond  Jubilee  the  award  was  made  to  a 
gentleman  who,  although  not  an  Englishman,  had  an  order  conferred  by  Her 
Majesty,  he  being  a  Companion  of  the  Order  of  the  Indian  Empire,  that  dis- 
tinction having  been  given  him  for  work  done  in  connection  with  cinchona 
cultivation  in  India.  It  was  also  interesting  to  remark  that  the  first  paper  pub- 
lished by  Dr.  De  Vrij  was  written  about  four  years  before  Her  Majesty  came  to 
the  throne.  Since  that  time  he  had  been  an  indefatigable  worker  in  original 
research  connected  with  the  chemistry  and  natural  history  of  drugs,  partly  in 
connection  with  cinchona.  He  began  life  as  a  pharmacist,  and  had  been  con- 
nected with  pharmacy  ever  since." 
