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Obituary. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I  September,  1902. 
nearly  lost  his  life  from  Chagres  fever.  Later  we  find  him  making 
valuable  collections  of  mosses  in  Mexico,  after  having  temporarily 
settled  in  Louisville,  Ky.  On  account  of  the  political  revolution  in 
Mexico  he  returned  to  the  United  States  and  settled  in  Mobile,  Ala., 
at  the  time  of  the  Civil  War.  Here  he  developed  the  native  materia 
medica,  manufactured  medicinal  preparations  for  supplying  the  Con. 
federates,  and  made  for  himself  a  reputation  as  an  analyst.  For 
many  years  thereafter  he  was  a  successful  manufacturing  pharma- 
cist, devoting  his  spare  time  to  studying  the  flora  and  natural 
resources  of  Alabama. 
While  Dr.  Mohr  contributed  a  limited  number  of  papers  to  the 
pharmaceutical  journals,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Pharmacopceial 
Revision  Committee  in  1 890,  still  his  reputation  rests  mainly  on  his 
botanical  studies,  especially  those  relating  to  the  plant  life  of  Ala- 
bama and  the  forestry  of  the  South.  He  was  employed  by  the  Gov- 
ernment in  1880  to  investigate  the  forests  of  the  Gulf  States,  in 
connection  with  the  work  of  the  Tenth  Census,  and  examined  the 
forests  from  Georgia  to  southwestern  Texas,  obtaining  valuable 
information,  and  thus  placing  himself  among  the  pioneers  in  forestry 
work  in  this  country.  The  Appalachian  National  Park  Association, 
which  has  under  consideration  the  "  Southern  Appalachian  Forest 
Reserve,"  would  honor  itself  by  associating  the  name  of  Dr.  Mohr 
with  some  phase  of  the  work  which  they  are  promulgating. 
Dr.  Mohr  was  not  only  engaged  in  the  Forestry  Division  of  the 
U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture,  but  was  the  botanist  of  the  Geo- 
logical Survey  of  Alabama,  and  made  collections  of  southern  woods 
for  the  Jessup  Collection  of  North  American  woods  in  the  Ameri- 
can Museum  of  Natural  History  in  New  York  City,  and  for  the 
New  Orleans  Exposition.  He  also  wrote  numerous  papers  upon  the 
botany  and  geology  of  the  Southern  States. 
Dr.  Mohr  was  awarded  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  by  the  University  of 
Alabama,  and  was  an  honorary  member  of  many  pharmaceutical 
and  scientific  societies,  among  the  former  of  which  we  mention  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
While  the  earlier  career  of  Dr.  Mohr  was  fraught  with  disappoint- 
ments and  discouragements,  still  these  no  doubt  helped  to  strengthen 
his  character  and  to  fit  him  for  his  life-work — his  work  being  as 
permanent  as  the  latter  years  of  his  life  were  fruitful  and  happy. 
A  wife  and  five  children  survive  him.  H.  K. 
