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Obituary. 
1  Am.  Jour.  Pbarra. 
I  November,  1897. 
The  Cinnamomums  of  New  South  Wales. — A  paper  was  read  at  the  July 
meeting  of  the  Linnean  Society  by  R.  T.  Baker,  assistant  curator  Technical 
Museum,  on  the  Cinnamomums  of  New  South  Wales,  with  a  special  research 
on  the  oil  of  C.  Oliveri,  Bailey. 
The  genus  Cinnamomum,  hitherto  unrecorded  for  New  South  Wales,  is  now- 
shown  to  occur  over  a  large  area  of  the  coastal  district,  being  represented  by 
two  species,  C.  Oliveri,  Bailey,  C.  virens,  sp.  nov  The  former  species  has  in 
the  past  been  mistaken  in  the  northern  colony  for  Beilshmiedia  obtusifolia,  and 
has  only  recently  been  identified  as  a  Cinnamomum  ;  very  probably  the  same 
confusion  of  species  has  occurred  in  this  colony.  C.  virens  appears  to  stand 
somewhat  alone,  its  affinities  with  known  species  not  being  very  marked. 
Descriptions  of  the  timber,  gall-fungus,  bark  and  oil  are  given.  The  oil 
obtained  from  C.  Oliveri  is  highly  aromatic,  and  is  found  to  contain  ciunamic 
aldehyde,  eugenol,  together  with  other  constituents.  The  bark  gave  nearly 
one  per  cent  of  oil.  It  is  hoped  that  a  new  commercial  product  may  result  from 
these  investigations. —  The  Pharmaceutical  Journal  of  Australasia,  August 
28,  1897. 
OBITUARY. 
Athanase  Roidot,  who  for  forty-nine  years  conducted  a  drug  store  in  the 
vicinity  of  Eighth  and  Vine  Streets,  this  city,  died  on  October  9th,  at  his  resi- 
dence, 905  Buttonwood  Street.    He  was  born  nearly 
eighty  years  ago,  in  France,  and  came  to  this  country 
at  an  early  age. 
He  learned  the  drug  business  in  his  native  country, 
and  when  he  came  to  this  city  he  entered  the  employ 
of  Elias  Durand,  who  at  that  time  had  a  store  at  the 
northwest  corner  of  Sixth  and  Chestnut  Streets.  Mr. 
Roidot  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Philadelphia  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy  in  1852. 
Peter  Lund  Simmonds,  whose  portrait  we  present 
with  this  sketch,  died  in  the  Charterhouse,  London, 
October  3d,  in  the  eighty-third  year  of  his  age. 
The  deceased  was  formerly  well  known  as  a  writer 
on  applied  science  and  as  having  taken  an  active  part 
in  the  management  of  several  of  the  large  international 
exhibitions.  He  was  born  at  Aarhuus,  Denmark,  in 
1814,  but  spent  most  of  his  life  in  England.  He  was  an  extensive  writer  on 
agricultural  and  food  topics  and  commercial  matters  in  general,  including  the 
subject  of  drugs,  and  was  not  an  infrequent  contributor  to  this  Journal.  He 
was  proprietor  and  editor  of  the  Technologist,  1862-66,  and  the  Journal  of Applied 
Science,  1870-81.  Of  his  other  published  works  the  following  may  be  mentioned  : 
"The  Commercial  Products  of  the  Vegetable  Kingdom,"  "  Waste  Products  and 
Undeveloped  Substances,"  "  Waste  Products,  A  New  and  Enlarged  Edition," 
"Tropical  Agriculture,  New  and  Enlarged  Edition,"  and  "A  Hand-book  of 
British  Commerce." 
Mr.  Simmonds  had,  at  different  times  during  his  life,  been  elected  to  mem- 
bership in  various  literary  and  technical  societies,  including  several  representa- 
tive agricultural  societies  and  the  Society  of  Arts,  London,  and  in  1896  was 
elected  an  honorary  member  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
